I’m inspired by the publication Twenty + Change, which was founded by a group of youngish Toronto architects “to encourage the exchange of ideas, and to expose and disseminate the work of a new generation of Canadian architects and designers.”
We can easily graph a surge in registration in a new community centre or an improved response time in a firehall, but the most meaningful, systemic changes architecture can catalyze are as hard to quantify as they are to predict.
At HCMA we listen for personal narratives so we can really understand the impact of our work — nurses who say the addition to the hospital triggered a marked improvement in staff morale, or the librarian who says that he has never been as happy at his job since moving into the new library.