meet Adam Shriver, one of TBG’s newest principals
Please join us in congratulating Adam Shriver on his promotion to Principal! TBG has been fortunate to have Adam in our Austin studio for nearly 10 years and are excited to share a little more about him to celebrate his recent success.
Q: How did you find landscape architecture?
A: “I was in my third year in the school of natural resources, studying to be a park ranger. I attended a presentation by Jane Amidon, describing the school of architecture and landscape architecture. I decided then to switch majors.”
Q: Who’s your celebrity doppelganger?
A: “To answer this question, I uploaded a photo of myself to a website, and it said that I looked most like Elisabeth Moss. But before I cut my hair, Nicole said I looked like Mick Fleetwood on the Rumours cover and my wife said Michiel Huisman from Game of Thrones.”
Q: What’s the best vacation you’ve ever taken?
A: “In 2015 we spent a week in Egypt on a privately chartered boat, going down the Nile River and visiting many historic sites that had captured my imagination as a kid.”
Q: What was your worst job ever?
A: “In high school I worked at McDonald’s making $4.35 per hour. I would always come home smelling like fry oil.”
Q: If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
A: “Probably a ‘holler’ in West Virginia. Country roads take me home.”
Q: Describe what you were like at age 10.
A: “I was obsessed with baseball, Shaq, Micro Machines, GI Joe, and drawing tanks and various other military vehicles. If I wasn’t using my mitt, it was always nearby with a baseball inside it and a rubber band keeping the form.”
Q: What’s the craziest thing you’ve done to hit a deadline?
A: “It was during the Christmas holiday. I got a call from a project manager in Shanghai that they needed an updated package sent to the client that day. So, on the way to my girlfriend’s parent’s house for Christmas, I sat in the backseat with my laptop to work on the deadline.”
Q: Who’s someone you look up to as a mentor?
A: “Russell Larsen and Justin Lindabury. They sit on either side of me in the office. I can turn right and get feedback about anything related to design and the business of landscape architecture. I can turn left and get feedback on the project story, experience and of course placemaking.”
Q: Next up on your travel agenda?
A: “There is a tradition that my wife’s dad and brothers started. Each year we all travel to a remote area of the country, usually near a national park for the weekend. Part of the trip includes a ‘death hike.’ We do a 20+ mile day hike starting around 5am with a full pack of food and water.”
