"Love architecture, be it ancient or modern. Love it for its fantastic, adventurous and solemn creations; for its inventions; for the abstract, allusive and figurative forms that enchant our spirit and enrapture our thoughts. Love architecture, the stage and support of our lives."Ponti, G. (1960) In Praise of Architecture. F. W. Dodge Corporation, New York, U.S.AAn architectural graduate at Brewer Davidson Architects, I am insatiably curious, love to learn and delight in the opportunity to investigate the new and unusual. My current projects include the first Certified Passive House in Christchurch, a Special Needs Unit and associated landscaping works in Auckland, and the National Relocatable Classroom Programme. Particular research and design interests include Environmentally Sustainable Design, Post Occupancy Evaluation, the PassiveHaus standard, materials and materiality and the development of new products and construction methods with the aim of supporting the development of best practices in architecture. Outside of the realities of practice I take refuge in the fantasy of drawing, creating paper worlds, fantastical romances of what could - but will never be - an exploration of dreams and desires, of hopes and fears, places and spaces at once real and unreal, inhabited and empty ... an infinite realm of possibilities ......“Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.” ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities