POETIC LICENCE

WHEN I ARRIVE for my 2pm meeting with Sydney architect. Angelo Candalepas of Candalepas & Associates, I am asked to take a seat in reception. He is drawing, says his assistant. When I get to his second-floor office he is still drawing intently with ruler and drafting pencil in hand. “I just had to finish this off,” he says. Therein lies a clue to his personality – unhurried, focused and very much running his own race. Drawing has always been a talent, even as a child, he says: “I looked back recently on the artworks I created when I was 10 or 12 and think maybe that would have been a good direction for me.”