2024-05-15T16:01:53-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150179792/runa-workshop-on-applying-austin-s-startup-culture-to-architectural-practice Alexander Walter 2020-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 >2020-02-05T17:38:12-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/76/762175c2c4decd479cb191c3e911ae10.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/runaworkshop" target="_blank">Runa Workshop</a> is an <a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/1467480/spotlight-on-austin" target="_blank">Austin</a>-based architectural and interior design practice with a rapidly growing roster of completed projects in the city's hospitality, retail, commercial, and institutional sectors. After gaining experience at a large architecture firm, founding principals Jean Pierre Trou and Aaron Vollmer longed for a different, more collaborative design process based on compact, nimble teams and decided to branch out on their own in 2009. <br></p> <p>Since then, Runa Workshop has grown into a studio of seven architects and interior designers, with a strong emphasis on healthy work-live balance, and, as Vollmer and Trou told Archinect in this week's&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/1222145/studio-snapshots" target="_blank">Studio Snapshot</a>, they're ready to take it to the next level.</p>