Recently, he has split his time between New York and his native Winnipeg, where he been involved in a diverse array of projects – most of them very different in terms of size, scope, and typology, but all of them pushing the envelope in terms of efficiency and impact. “For me, architecture is a social science first and foremost,” says Sotirios. “When we design and build, we have to think about the humans and the communities that engage with our architecture.” Sotirios was born in Winnipeg, but has studied, worked, and taught architecture and constructionall across theglobe. When he returned to Winnipeg in 2013, he was coming off three years as a visiting professor at the University of Puerto Rico and the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, where he taught graduate and undergraduate design, urban architecture, and a graduate history and theory of architecture seminar. He came back to Canada in order to start working on Sherbrook Flats – more on that soon. For most of his life, Sotirios has also worked Alpha Masonry, one of the leading general masonry and restoration contractors in Canada. That company is owned by Sotirios’ father Kostas ‘Gus’ Kotoulas, a fourth-generation stone mason who moved to Canada from Greece in the 1970s. As THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA “My goal was to build a building that was going to last a long time, and the buildings that last the longest are the most sustainable,” he adds. “So I wanted to make a sustainable building. I didn’t just want to just check a few boxes and say it was sustainable – I wanted to make sure it was actually going to last.” Photo: James Brittain
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