News: Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: January 22, 2009
Audrey O'Hagan 2009
Name: Audrey O'Hagan, AIA
Organization: Boston Society of Architects secretary
Company: Audrey O'Hagan Architects, LLC
Title: Principal
Location: One Gateway Center, Newton, Mass.
Birthplace and year: Natchez, Miss.
Family: Two sons
College: University of Kansas
First job outside real estate: Law library at University of Kansas
First job in real estate: Kennedy Associates
Currently do/future plans: We are currently working on commercial office and educational projects, and would like to expand project types to include our experience with research and development facilities.
Hobbies: Traveling, photography
Favorite book: Irving Stone's The Agony and The Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
Favorite movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Person your most admire: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, Colin Powell and Jacqueline Kennedy
Key to success: Passion, commitment and integrity
If you were forced to choose another vocation what would it be? Writer
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