Lori Burns practiced architecture for over twenty years prior to founding ArchiTales in 2006. She has found great delight in creating architectural portraits that celebrate individuals at transition points in their lives and feels that an ArchiTales drawing represents a positive appraisal of human lives. We’re constantly bombarded with messages that we aren’t “good enough” unless we buy this or do that. Ms. Burns believes the opposite, and thinks that we should say that someone is really special just the way they are more often.

Lori Burns graduated from Carleton University with a degree in Architecture in the early 1980‘s and became a registered Architect in 1984. She has practiced architecture in Alberta,
British Columbia and Ontario; her firm specialized in residential and institutional uses, often combined with barrier free requirements. She taught in the Architectural Technology program at George Brown College for ten years and has developed and taught technology courses for York Region Board of Education since 2003.