07 - The Power of Empathy with Michael Peixoto

Michael Peixoto, husband, father, professor, soccer coach and award wining principal architect at ARCA-VERDE Architecture Inc.

In this podcast, Michael talks about his own 2,600 square foot Passive House that he and his wife, Robin Peixoto (principal interior designer with the firm Parallel 45), designed and moved into with their two daughters in 2017.

Michael also covers how he got into architecture, what success means to him, changes in the industry, juggling his family commitments and much more. Check out the podcast timeline and links below.

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You take a series of information and criteria and you somehow dilute that into something that ends up as a physical building, there's something incredibly rewarding about that.
-- Michael Peixoto

Episode Timeline​

• ​2:00 Introduction 
• 7:15 Passive house
• 13:15  What attracted Michael to architecture
• 23:15 Michael talks about bringing a project to completion and what success means to him.
• 29:15 Changes to the construction industry
• 36:50 Michael talks about starting his own practice
• 39:15 How does Michael spend his free time?
• 48:40 Michael and Casey talk family
• 1:00:00 Some parting advice from Michael

Episode Links

• Arca-Verde.ca
• Parallel45.ca