Memories of Caribana and a love of The PATH: Where architect Camille Mitchell sees ‘a rhythm’ in Toronto
Camille Mitchell was raised in a household that fuelled her passion for math and visual arts. She landed on architecture as a career because it was a “happy marriage” between the two.
“Our activities were going to open houses and checking out different home layouts and things like that,” says Mitchell, an architect at Gensler. “As the youngest of four, I was my dad’s sidekick to build anything around the house. My father immigrated to Canada as a draftsperson so I grew up with a draft board in the house.”
Mitchell spent her childhood in Hamilton, but moved to Toronto after graduate school. Initially, she stayed in the city to work on a project, the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, for six years. But she ended up settling into Toronto, she says, and “finding a rhythm.”
