Jeffrey Bailey

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About Jeffrey Bailey

Good design, distinguished by the extent that it offers curiosity and beguilement, that it affords an altered self, unwittingly, by simply being there. Maybe you’ve felt that richness of place, that vaunted voodoo of architecture, the kind that echoes in your consciousness long after you’ve returned to the humdrum. That’s my charge; to understand this magic and, with luck and earnest effort, one day perhaps to weave it. My path has taken many turns along different avenues of discovery: from my scholastic background in history and philosophy, and my personal endeavors to travel and craft furniture, to my professional life built around architecture. Indeed, from my first dip into the profession, a co-op term at the age of seventeen, I’ve worked to advance my understanding and practice of architecture, to solve problems big and small, and through this progress my understanding of the relationships between us – we, people – and the worlds we inhabit – the built world, the natural world, the political world, to sight what we, as designers and architects, can do. I bring on this pursuit, my tenacity, my focus, my tech savvy, my pragmatism and creative problem solving, my integrity, my off-beat sense of things, my love of heritage buildings, and my verve for possibility and difference.