As an architect, every space I walk in to, I look at … intensely. I scrutinize, evaluate, process, and redesign. Every. Single. Space. There are times when I wish this didn’t happen … most of the time ...

From drawing to building her own tree house and forts, Sylvia Smith worked well with her hands growing up in suburban Chicago in the 1960s. “I was interested in making things from early on,” says the ...