Brigid / David

Brigid in 1971.

Same necklace, different glasses...

David in 2018.

It’s one thing for the PtM75 podcast series to serve as a virtual reunion for friends and roommates from 50 years ago. It’s quite another for it to function as a platform for members of the Class of 1975 to meet for the very first time and make a happy connection (no, we are not leaving our spouses after a meet-cute opportunity).

Brigid Williams is a Boston-based residential architect whose clients trumpet her ability to listen, her creativity, and her project management skills—something classmate David Goldbloom’s patients never said about him. So this is a chance for David to learn from Brigid, who can still work when there’s a power failure because she was trained in the era of pencil and paper. Her love of languages and the arts informs her work—and is palpable in this interview.

Brigid celebrates the instinctual, imaginative and instructive in her work despite the rise of the machine in her profession. And while she admires the power of classic European architecture to charm its viewers, she adds, “It doesn’t have to be old-timey to be wonderful.” Listen in to someone who continues to find joy in her work and her life.