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Behind the Build

Behind the Build with Jonathan Jacobs

An in-depth #Podcast hosted by Jonathan Jacobs, interviewing Design Professionals about them, their #design practice and more...

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00:56:33

Behind the Build: Goli Basiri - Harmen Design

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2026/02/19

Goli Basiri is a co-founder and principal designer of Harmen Design, an architecture and interior design studio based in Oakville, Ontario, serving clients across the Greater Toronto Area. Born and raised in Mashhad, Iran, she developed an early sensitivity to the emotional impact of space, shaped by childhood experiences visiting family homes and observing how the environment influences comfort and connection.After completing a bachelor’s degree in physics in Iran in 2008 or 2009, she pursued her

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00:55:46

Behind the Build AD: Brad Abbott - Abbott Design

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2026/02/16

Brad Abbott is the founder and principal designer of Abbott Design, based in Toronto, Ontario. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he grew up in a family of physicians and was a lifelong sketcher, known in school for being pulled from class to draw murals for community and holiday events. He played hockey and became an avid skier early on, spending weekends in Manitoba’s Pembina River Valley in a quirky ski culture that included converted railway boxcars used as ski cabins.Abbott began university

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01:11:15

Behind the Build ID: Carly Nemtean - Collective...

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2026/02/12

Carly Nemtean is a Toronto born interior designer and entrepreneur, and the co-owner of Carriage Lane Design Build, a residential design and construction firm she has led for more than seventeen years. Her interest in spatial planning began early, through hands on experimentation with building, room layouts, and material changes at home, and later developed into a clear professional path. While still in high school, she completed a co-op placement at Watt IDG in Toronto, working under Andrew

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01:34:53

Behind the Build AD: Luigi Ferrara - Conifer Futures...

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2026/02/09

Luigi Ferrara is an architect, urbanist, designer, and design strategist based in Toronto, where he was born and raised in the Downsview area of North York. He is the son of Italian parents from Abruzzo who immigrated to Canada after the Second World War, and he grew up in a close knit extended family community that blended agrarian traditions with postwar industrial life. Early exposure to art, making, and building, combined with formative travel to Italy, strongly influenced his creative

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01:05:58

Behind the Build ID: Brooke Michelsen - Brooke...

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2026/02/05

Brooke Michelsen is an interior designer and the founder of Brooke Michelsen Design, based in Vermont. Born and raised in southern Vermont, she grew up in Manchester and later Dorset, where she spent her childhood immersed in the outdoors. She is the third of four children, with two older sisters and a younger brother. Her early life was shaped by a strong connection to nature, including cross country skiing, hiking, maple sugaring, and long days spent exploring the woods around her family

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01:50:06

Behind the Build AD: Ludwig Godefroy - Ludwig...

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2026/02/02

Ludwig Godefroy is a French architect born in Gouville-sur-Mer, a small fishing village of roughly 1,000 inhabitants on the Normandy coast, facing the Atlantic Ocean. Raised in a rural environment shaped by craftsmanship, tides, and the honesty of manual labor, his early life was deeply influenced by place. He later moved to Paris to study architecture and graduated from the École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires à Marne-la-Vallée, a Paris-East school housed in a Bernard

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01:27:00

Behind the Build ID: Meg Cassidy - Studio Meg Cassidy

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2026/01/29

Meg Cassidy is a Toronto based interior designer and the founder of Studio Meg Cassidy, which she established in 2017. She grew up in Waterloo, Ontario, in a family shaped by both academic and entrepreneurial influences. Her father played professional hockey before becoming a teacher, and her mother owned a modeling agency. Cassidy was a competitive dancer for 13 years, attended an arts focused high school for Grades 9 and 10 where she studied dance and drama, and developed an early interest in

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01:03:09

Behind the Build AD: Anya Moryoussef - Anya...

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2026/01/26

Anya Moryoussef is an architect based in Toronto, where she was born and raised. She is the child of immigrant parents, with her mother arriving from South Africa and her father from Morocco in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Growing up, she was deeply introspective and drawn to solitary creative pursuits, including drawing, making objects, and extended imaginative play. Her early interest in art was shaped by her mother, a trained sculptor, and a broader family connection to visual art.Moryoussef

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01:13:06

Behind the Build ID: Dyonne Fashina - Denizens of Design

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2026/01/22

Dyonne Fashina is the founder of Denizens of Design, a Toronto based interior design practice working across hospitality, commercial, and cultural projects. She grew up in Hockley Valley, just north of Orangeville, on a seven acre property with a creek connected to the Nottawasaga River. Her earliest creative experiences came from working with clay found along the creek, forming objects by hand, which established a lasting connection to materiality and making.Fashina pursued art from a young age,

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01:13:30

Behind the Build AD: Stefano Pujatti - ElasticoSPA...

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2026/01/19

Stefano Pujatti is an Italian architect and designer, born in Budoia near Pordenone in northeastern Italy, north of Venice. He grew up in a rural environment close to a NATO base, an experience that exposed him early to international culture and different perspectives. From a young age he was drawn to construction, farming, and horses, beginning to ride early and maintaining a lifelong connection to horsemanship.He studied architecture in Venice, where he was educated within one of Europe’s most

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01:06:58

Behind the Build ID: Ashley Botten - Ashley Botten...

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2026/01/15

Ashley Botten is a Toronto based interior designer and the founder of Ashley Botten Design. Raised in Toronto’s Lawrence Park neighbourhood, her earliest connection to design began in childhood through an intuitive relationship with space, furniture arrangement, and atmosphere. That sensitivity was shaped by time spent rearranging her bedroom, careful attention to objects and materials, and frequent exposure to hotels through her father’s career in the hotel industry, which began with Four Seasons

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01:06:58

Behind the Build AD: Robert Micacchi - Micacchi...

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2026/01/12

Robert Micacchi is an architect from Woodstock, Ontario, and the founder of Micacchi Architecture, based in Toronto. The son of an engineer in the forestry equipment industry and a kindergarten teacher, he was drawing floor plans from an early age, inspired by technical drawings brought home from work and by the modernist home of a local architect in his neighbourhood. With Italian family roots and a nonna who encouraged his sense of craft and elegance, he stayed focused on architecture through

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01:35:22

Behind the Build ID: Tommy Smythe - TOM Design...

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2026/01/08

Tommy Smythe is a Toronto born interior designer and former television host whose work is defined by authenticity, personal narrative, and a deep belief in the power of environment to shape daily life. Raised in Toronto, he spent his school years in the city, summers in the Muskoka Lakes, and winter holidays largely in Palm Beach, experiences that exposed him early to contrasting lifestyles, architecture, and cultural rhythms. Encouraged by his mother to pursue creative outlets and influenced by his

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01:02:01

Behind the Build AD: Brad Bradford - City Councilor

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2026/01/05

Brad Bradford is a Toronto city councillor and an urban planner by training. He grew up in suburban Hamilton, raised by his single mother alongside two siblings, and later moved to Hespeler, a community within Cambridge, Ontario, where he finished high school. An active kid, he spent much of his childhood figure skating at the Dave Andreychuk Mountain Arena and Skating Centre, training and competing at a high level. He also played rugby, including at the University of Guelph and with club teams.Brad

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01:23:21

Behind the Build ID: Jessica Nakanishi & Jonathan...

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2026/01/01

Jessica Nakanishi and Jonathan Sabine are the founders and principals of MSDS Studio, a Toronto based multidisciplinary design practice working across interiors, furniture, lighting, and product design. Jessica grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, and traces her early material curiosity to building alongside her father in millwork settings. She later worked at the skate shop West 49, where assembling skateboards became an early lesson in parts, tolerance, and hands on construction. Jonathan grew up out

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00:51:00

Behind the Build AD: Jon Cummings - JSA

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2025/12/29

Jon Cummings is a Toronto based architect and educator who grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario. After early interests in drawing, painting, sculpture, and ceramics, his path toward architecture deepened through travel and close study of the built environment, including formative time in Italy and exposure to historic and contemporary works.He studied architecture at the University of Waterloo, completing multiple co op terms in Canada and abroad, including work experiences in Peterborough,

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01:09:10

Behind the Build ID: Laura Stein - Laura Stein...

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2025/12/25

Toronto based interior designer Laura Stein grew up in the city and is the founder of Laura Stein Interiors and LSI Workshop, a business she created to mentor and support interior decorators and designers. A lifelong creative, she discovered her love of spaces at twelve when she was allowed to redesign her childhood bedroom, sparking a lasting fascination with textiles, colour, and the way rooms feel.Laura studied film and communications at McGill University and went on to earn a masters degree in

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01:14:01

Behind the Build AD: Jason Fung - Jason Fung Architects

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2025/12/22

Jason Fung is the founder and principal of Jason Fung Architect, a boutique architecture practice based in Toronto, Canada. He grew up in Markham, Ontario, in a middle income household where his parents encouraged both academic rigor and creative exploration. Alongside strong grounding in math and science at school, he spent weekends in visual art classes and piano lessons, developing early skills in drawing, observation, and proportion that carried through to university.Fung completed both his

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01:13:04

Behind the Build ID: Marti Gallucci - Mason Studio

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2025/12/18

Marti Gallucci is a Partner and Design Director at Mason Studio, where she has been a key part of the firm’s evolution for over 13 years. She joined the studio as an intern during her fourth year of university, became its first employee, and has grown alongside the practice as it expanded into a multidisciplinary team of approximately 25 people. Her work spans hospitality, restaurants, hotels, private residences, retail, multi unit residential, and self initiated exhibitions and installations, with

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01:42:59

Behind the Build AD: Nicolas Koff, Sebastien...

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2025/12/15

Nicolas Koff, Uros Novakovic, and Sebastian Bartnicki are the founding partners of Office Ou, a practice shaped as much by lived experience and cultural memory as by formal architectural training. Each arrived at architecture indirectly, carrying with them deep impressions of place, history, and making that would later converge into a shared way of working.Nico grew up in Paris, fascinated by archaeology, ancient civilizations, and the way history embeds itself in landscapes. Childhood trips to

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