21.1.2025 Tuesday - leaving a legacy

At dinner, we tell stories from university and I tell them that at the final years of uni, I had 2 bosses; a Chinese one from the restaurant where I worked nights and an Italian one from the architect's office where I worked some days of the week while finishing my 5th Year Design Studio. One night, Philip the Chinese restaurant boss says 'Ming (he could never get my name right) - I just bought a piece of land at Belmont Heights and I want you to design a house for me'. I sensed that it was going to be a big task ahead if he was going to get it built and decided to introduce him to my Italian boss, Pas Cirillo. They met and Pas took Philip for a drive looking at the houses Pas built, after which they agreed to work together. The next day, I met Pas and offered to initiate the design with Philip and asked if I could then continue with the design development drawings. He agreed, and from then on I would sit down with Philip and Jan to talk about their house after the restaurant closed for the night.