Chicken Wraps and Upside Down Barrel Vaults with Wesley Spencer

Chicken Wraps and Upside Down Barrel Vaults with Wesley Spencer
Today we chat with Wesley Spencer from RARA Architecture. Wesley's been a regular contributor on Lunchbox Architect and we always love hearing his insights on design, practice and, now, discovering his very mild superpower...
Brodie: It's Lunch with an Architect, so the question on everyone's lips: what's your go-to lunch choice?
Wesley: It's a chicken wrap with some lettuce. Very simple and straightforward.
So what drew you to architecture, Wesley?
I wanted to become an architect since I was 12. The sequence of events was me walking Dad through the house, saying, 'if we put a window here, it will capture the north light. And if we do an extension, that will make the proportions of this room better and the dining table would fit more comfortably.' And he just turns to me, and he said, 'Why do you want to become a lawyer?' And I said, 'so I can so I can make lots of money, and design beautiful houses.' I was fully committed to being as successful and rich as possible so I could do this to the point that, at 12, I had already had my dad purchase me law books. So he just goes, 'well, if that's what you love, why don't you just become an architect?' And I said, 'what's an architect?' And he goes, 'it's a person whose job it is to design houses.' And I said, 'there's a job for that?!' So that was it locked in stone, never even wavered for a minute, never wanted to be anything else.

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