“Is there another profession referenced as repeatedly as Architecture in the cliché “I always wanted to be …”? Buried in a musty box in a Montreal basement are decades-old house plans drawn in HB pencil when I was still a teenager. Thirty years later I’ve long understood that the thrill of imagining such spaces is only the beginning: ‘selling’ them with passion and patience, refining them to meet budgets and needs, and finally observing their impact and relevance in built form bring full circle those early strokes of a pencil.”
