I Once was an Architect is a book of memories. They are memories of good times and bad, of successes and crushing failures. Parties and failure at Cornell opposed to intense study, hard work and marriage while at Syracuse University set the pattern for the diversity of an unusual life. The story journeys through a life spent after graduation first as a businessman, interior designer, entrepreneur and restaurateur for a period of twenty years. Then at the urging of a friend taking the architectural licensing exam twenty years after graduation, passing and commencing ten years as an architect...