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by Issued For Construction with Jonathan Jacobs
A long-form podcast hosted by Jonathan Jacobs dedicated to the careers and lives of the individuals shaping the built environment.
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- 1 weeks ago1h 39m
AD Halifax Series: Devin Harper - Hewn + Barter
Devin Harper builds the way his family always has. His studio, Hewn + Barter, is named for 1870, when his great great grandfather came to Tignish, PEI to build the church and bartered that craft with fishermen and farmers for a homestead.Devin grew up outside Charlottetown, the son of a carpenter, in a house his father kept adding onto as the family grew. Gifts were made by hand, and the workshop opened up one tool at a time. Childhood meant full neighbourhood teams and every sport going, from hockey to rugby. At 18 he joined the Naval Reserve, training as an officer, sailing past the Arctic Circle and up to Alaska, diving on ship hulls, and serving some 16 years. It gave him leadership, process, and a calm that holds under pressure.After a biology degree, he turned to architecture, studying at Boston Architectural College while hauling rock for a landscape architect by day, then earning his Master of Architecture at Dalhousie in 2015. Work at Omar Gandhi Architect, Chapman Taylor in the UK, a design build firm and a commercial practice taught him he needed both worlds.In 2018 he designed and built a riverbank sauna for his mother in law as a thank you. A year later he founded Hewn + Barter, an architecture practice with its own builders and craftspeople. The studio designs and builds its own projects, from the Nature Folk spa in Dartmouth’s former city hall to Aura Women’s Wellness and Weird Harbour café in Halifax. It also builds for leading architects including Omar Gandhi, and runs a growing millwork shop. Off hours, Devin coaches his two boys and rides Wentworth’s trails.Hewn + BarterUpcoming Episode:Flair HunterSponsors:Caplan's AppliancesThe DoorsTo connect with our sponsors, email me: jonathan@issuedforconstruction.caIssued For Construction
- 2 weeks ago1h 31m
AD Halifax Series: Richard Kroeker Pt.2
In part two, Richard Kroeker picks up where he left off and goes deeper into the ideas behind his life’s work. He explains why the Architectural Association, a school founded and still run by its students, left him asking why every university doesn’t work that way, and how that conviction turned his Dalhousie studios into research teams producing work for real communities rather than grades destined for the bin.He returns to Gambia, where his former students still lead a grassroots group building walkways that reconnect women to flooded gardens and safe latrines at village markets, and recalls a chief who warned him that every graduate now needs an air conditioned office. He describes years of building longhouses and lodges with Mi’kmaw knowledge holders, staying with Albert and Murdena Marshall in a home where the teapot never emptied and the whole community passed through the kitchen, a bond he now honours with a bursary for Mi’kmaw students.Richard tells how he bent trees on logging roads with his car and a rope, then called Buro Happold, whose engineer Chris Williams came over at cost and slept on his couch. That work led to the Pictou Landing Health Centre, framed in local spruce shaped by the community. He looks back on addressing the International Union of Architects in Berlin alongside Frei Otto, the Schelling Medal that followed, and the Order of Canada call he assumed was a wrong number. He closes with the prizes that matter most: an honest critic in his wife, a son and grandson living next door, and a simple rule to do everything with love.Richard KroekerUpcoming Episode:Hewn + BarterSponsors:Caplan's AppliancesThe DoorsTo connect with our sponsors, email me: jonathan@issuedforconstruction.caIssued For Construction
- 2 weeks ago2h 0m
AD Halifax Series: Richard Kroeker Pt.1
Richard Kroeker grew up on a Manitoba farm near a small prairie village, one of five boys in a home where canning season, butchering bees and hay crews were shared community work. His father, a Ukrainian immigrant who worked as a bricklayer, plumber, carpenter and mechanic, told his sons that their heads were their future. Richard set out to be a naturalist, drawing and painting everything he observed, until a shortcut through the University of Manitoba architecture building showed him people laughing, building and generating ideas together. He soon changed course.He went on to the Architectural Association in London, where students wrote their own curriculum and defended it before external juries, with teachers that included Peter Cook and Zaha Hadid. After designing in London through the Thatcher years, a teaching post brought his family home to Canada and to Dalhousie University in Halifax. There he became a professor, director of the School of Architecture, and now Professor Emeritus, treating the studio as a place to solve real problems. In Gambia, his students built hand pumps from discarded tires and flotation gear from water bottles for fishing families. In Eskasoni, he worked with Albert and Murdena Marshall, and in Minnesota a studio helped protect a Dakota sacred site.Richard is a Member of the Order of Canada, a 2022 World Architecture Festival WAFX award winner for the Muscowpetung Powwow Arbour, and a recipient of the Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award for the Pictou Landing Health Centre. He still paints.Richard KroekerUpcoming Episode:Richard Kroeker Pt.2Sponsors:Caplan's AppliancesThe DoorsTo connect with our sponsors, email me: jonathan@issuedforconstruction.caIssued For Construction
- 3 weeks ago1h 17m
ID Toronto: Jaime Zimmerman - JPZ Interiors
Jamie grew up in Cedarvale, the youngest of three sisters, with summers at the family cottage on Lake Simcoe. By her own account she was a serial quitter of piano, guitar and dance, but she never stopped making things, from beading and painting to bedazzling, and she still remembers the hot pink and orange Ikea haul that made decorating her bedroom feel like a turning point.A psychology degree from McGill did not point her toward design, but a nudge from her mom and a leap into a Toronto interior design program did. She passed on Parsons in New York, spent a summer traveling through Southeast Asia, and learned the business from the ground up through retail at Club Monaco, a short stint selling condo upgrades, and nearly five years at Tara Fingold Interiors, where she picked up drafting, styling, purchasing and the confidence to get on the phone and make things happen.After a maternity leave that came to an end, in early 2020, weeks before the world shut down, she launched JPZ Interiors with one renovation, a freshly photographed home and an Instagram account. Today her Toronto residential practice often runs around ten projects at once and has reached Florida, and she is building a team while raising three kids. Along the way she opens up about pricing her time, writing her first contracts, trusting her gut on red flags, and why you should simply pick up the phone and ask.JPZ InteriorsUpcoming Episode:Richard KroekerSponsors:Caplan's AppliancesThe DoorsTo connect with our sponsors, email me: jonathan@issuedforconstruction.caIssued For Construction
- 3 weeks ago1h 51m
AD - Halifax Series: Duncan, Jennifer & Will - Place of Work
Place of Work is an architecture studio with one foot in Halifax and one in Toronto, founded by Jennifer Esposito, Duncan Patterson, and Will Perkins. The three first worked together at MacKay Lyons Sweetapple Architects, and when COVID shook everything loose they realized a practice built on trust and shared shorthand could live in two cities. Today they design mostly houses, with a deep interest in the rituals that happen inside them, and the studio was featured in the Wallpaper* Architects Directory 2026. The name comes from a term in a Canadian construction contract, where it simply means the site, but they loved how it also speaks to place and to work.Will was born in Halifax, spent his early years in Los Angeles and New Zealand while his luthier father worked abroad, and trained in lighting design at the National Theatre School of Canada before starting architecture school at 26. Duncan grew up between Regina and his dad’s cattle ranch, sketching in colored Conte and building fences, then came to Dalhousie by way of an architectural technology program. Jennifer, a Toronto native and former varsity swimmer, followed Carleton and Harvard’s GSD with practice in Yellowknife and Halifax, and now teaches at Toronto Metropolitan University while advocating for equity in the profession through BEAT.Away from the studio, Will cooks ambitious dinners, meditates early in the morning, and is learning tennis for the joy of not being good at it. Duncan hikes, camps, plays rec league basketball, and joins his brother’s nonprofit that turns basketball courts into murals. Jennifer reads, travels, and dreams of a shack on the ocean.Place of WorkUpcoming Episode:JPZ InteriorsSponsors:Caplan's AppliancesThe DoorsTo connect with our sponsors, email me: jonathan@issuedforconstruction.caIssued For Construction
- Oct 8, 20261h 34m
ID: Michelle Mawby - Georgian Custom Homes & Lucid Interior Design
Michelle grew up in Richmond, BC, the daughter of Australian parents who made sure she was born a proud Canadian, and she has rarely stood still since. Ballet started at two, followed by the French horn, the trumpet, basketball as a point guard, and a string of provincial titles in the 800, 1500 and 3000 metres. Her first business lessons came from rolling coins at her parents’ laundromat and restocking a pop machine, and a sports scholarship carried her to California, where she studied English literature and competed in the heptathlon.Advertising, a move to Toronto and a renovation of her own home led her to the Academy of Design, where she graduated in 1999. London and Amsterdam came next, along with a hot pink Swedish army bike she brought home. Around 2005 she launched Lucid Interior Design, named for clarity and light, and built it on full gut renovations, additions and custom homes, from a Tip Top Lofts residence to a heritage home on Spadina Circle. A Registered Interior Designer, her work has reached television too, through Weekend Reno on Cottage Life, Junk Raiders and Room to Grow.Today Michelle is principal designer of Georgian Custom Homes, where she stepped in during 2019 to help run its architecture and design department. Here she shares what design school taught her, why a good mentor matters, and what to do when a specified product suddenly disappears. Away from work, you will find her scuba diving, planning her next trip, or singing karaoke at her Prince Edward County farmhouse.Michelle MawbyUpcoming Episode:Place of WorkSponsors:Caplan's AppliancesThe DoorsTo connect with our sponsors, email me: jonathan@issuedforconstruction.caIssued For Construction
- Oct 5, 20261h 57m
Issued For Construction AD: Pina & Ralph - GPAIA
Pina and Ralph have been partners in life and architecture since a prom date arranged by a cousin. Ralph showed up for that first date and mistook Pina's twin sister for her, a mix up that still gets retold. Both grew up in Italian Canadian families steeped in building and craft. Ralph comes from three generations of builders, and Pina spent childhood summers in Italy touring history with her father. Ralph led a student boycott at the University of Toronto that marched on Queen's Park, while Pina went on to Princeton and still teaches at U of T. Their wedding had an accordion player, a raw bar, and 250 guests, after they had planned for 100.Their first commission arrived after a late night encounter on College Street, when the owner of Bar Italia asked Ralph for help. The fee was $4,250, and the job turned a neighbourhood institution into their calling card. A licensing body rejected the name Arena Architects, so they began under Ralph's own name and grew into Giannone Petricone Associates, founded in 1995. While the bar collected attention, Ralph quietly master planned a 26 acre lakefront site that became Port Credit Village and helped the young firm survive.Today about 40 people work on projects that range from the Shops at Don Mills to The Royal Hotel in Picton, Volta Estate Winery in Prince Edward County, and the Snider House, a ribbon of curved glass wrapped around North Toronto's oldest surviving home. Hear how they design for gathering, plan a future beyond themselves, and why two of their three sons became architects anyway.Giannone Petricone AssociatesUpcoming Episode:Michelle MawbySponsors:Caplan's AppliancesThe DoorsTo connect with our sponsors, email me: jonathan@issuedforconstruction.caIssued For Construction
- Oct 1, 20261h 46m
Issued For Construction ID: Jonathan & Garrett Brewer-Sweet - BrewerSweet Co.
At eight years old, Jonathan was driving a truck out to the fields with snacks for the crew on his grandparents' 400 acre Idaho farm. Garrett was a Newport Beach kid decorating his bedroom like a beach house inside a craftsman home. Today the married duo run BrewerSweet Co., a full service interior design studio in Southern California with a growing footprint in Park City, Utah.Jonathan's Twin Falls childhood was pure adventure: bottle feeding calves, raising a litter of 25 puppies, building a tree house from a dying tree, and singing five part harmony on 24 hour road trips with two music teacher parents. Theater, choirs, and competitive ballroom followed, including a week of dance camp with choreographers from So You Think You Can Dance. After Bible college in England, he landed in California with about a thousand dollars, two suitcases, and a borrowed car.Garrett studied business management, spent a semester in Madrid, worked the overnight shift at Disneyland, and hauled warehouse pallets to LA to turn into a bed frame. He also spent years at the pottery wheel, building a stock of 150 to 200 ceramic pieces that now show up in their projects.Their first clients were three neighbors in matching condos during COVID. Designer Stephanie Hunt of Flairhunter took them under her wing, and a Park City log cabin remodel became their calling card.Brewer Sweet Co.Upcoming Episode:Giannone Petricone AssociatesSponsors:Caplan's AppliancesThe DoorsTo connect with our sponsors, email me: jonathan@issuedforconstruction.caIssued For Construction
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