This image is of my best mate from school who I climbed Aoraki/Mt Cook with in 1985 at the tender age of 21.
To be able to complete this climb I had done a long apprenticeship from tramping to winter tramping and onto mountaineering. Joining the Canterbury Mountaineering Club in 1982 and over three years completing their instruction programme along side climbs of numerouse peaks in the Southern Alps.
Aoraki/Mt Cook is the highest mountain I have climbed but harder climbs would follow this.
So just as in climbing, becoming a good architect requires, training and experience. In NZ and architecture degree is 5 years, it takes another 5 years of appropriate work experience to have enough case studies to apply for registration and to pass the rigorous interview.
But the learning does not stop there. Continuing Professional Development is part of ongoing Registration and this Registration is reviewed every 5 years.
The older you get the more your life experience feeds into your profession. I travel, take photographs, visit buildings by other architects and volunteer with CMC back country huts.
So what does this give my clients. Well a wealth of experience which I can draw on to make their project special. I design high performance residential buildings predominantly using sip and prefab.
If you are interested in a high performance SIP PREFAB build come and talk to me. I have been through the process on my own Bach at Castle Hill.
