Plenty of designers out there do very well cranking out ‘just-good-enough-to-get-by’ drawings on autopilot – and to be fair, production line, cookie cutter type design services are where the money is – but what really gets me out of bed in the morning and working late into the night is solving interesting problems for interesting people, distilling elegant solutions from amongst the noise of seemingly conflicting requirements.

Let’s face it; I am an architectural geek.

Rather than cultivating my firm handshake and a network of clients on the golf course by day and schmoozing in restaurants and bars by night like I probably should, I would much rather spend any spare time (when I am not with my family) exploring new ideas and technologies, debating philosophy on-line, sketching and day-dreaming about architecture;