Women in Design 2019 - 14

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Abigail Clary
Director, Health Practice
CannonDesign

"I am not the person who puts pen to paper
and creates something beautiful. Finding my
voice in architecture took a long time," says
Abigail Clary, director of the health practice at
CannonDesign in Chicago.
Her journey first began in the seventh grade,
when the Chicago native chose a technical
drawing class over home economics. "Freaked
out because no one got higher than a C," Clary
surprised herself with the discovery that she
had a knack for the pre-CAD curriculum
(she received an A). That empowerment led
to architecture electives in high school, and
ultimately, degrees in the subject from the
University of Colorado Boulder and Illinois
Institute of Technology.
Working at the Chicago firm Loebl

Jeddah International Academic Medical Center,
Saudi Arabia, designed by CannonDesign

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