Patience might be a virtue, but impatience has a power of its own. Too often, architects “sit in their office waiting for somebody to call them to do a development – and they wait a long time,” says Peter Gluck, RA, principal and founder of Manhattan-based GLUCK+. Instead, he and a small but ever-rising number of local architects have been taking a DIY approach with residential projects, developing their own designs. In doing so, they have gained greater control and efficiency in their work process, shed frustrating developer-client constraints, and created noteworthy new living spaces in New York City.