Daphne A. Tomchak, AIA

What I do at Grace

Architect, code expert, court jester

School / Work background

M ARCH, with certificate in Urban Design, U of Washington; Former Plans Examiner at City of Seattle

Why architecture

Why not? You can’t get away from it.

Hobbies / obsessions

Barbed wire, bicycling, Barbies (cultural context of) and the mistaken notion that I can become a better person through night classes.

Best / most exotic / weirdest place I’ve travelled

Afghanistan - in the winter!

At a bar I order

A pedicab

Music on my iPod

Black Eyed Peas, Coltrane, Santana, Beethoven