BY FRAN PRUYN, CPSM LEGENDS David Brems, FAIA, LEED AP As part of our ongoing series of interviews with architectural legends, we are proud to present this interview with David Brems, Principal at GSBS Architects. It was a pleasure to interview him, and we hope you enjoy getting to know him as much as we did. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Why and when did you decide to be an architect? Growing up in Lehi, there were not a lot of architects. My father, working hard to raise his family, had a side job building houses. I was the oldest of five. He took me out on job sites and handed me a stack of odds and ends of lumber to entertain myself. It was fun to look at the houses that were being built, how they were laid out and how they were different from the house that I lived in. It just got my imagination going. I didn’t think a lot about it through high school, but I did well. In 1968, I got a scholarship to the University of Utah for 8 REFLEXION
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