News & Observer features Blueplate PR client Arielle Condoret Schechter: “She started out as her father’s draftsperson. She now runs her own architect firm”

BY CHANTAL ALLAM

Arielle Condoret Schechter grew up studying cubist artists like Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.

As the daughter of the late renowned local architect Jon Condoret, she trained at NC State’s School of Design and got her start working as her father’s draftsperson in the 1980s. For decades, she sketched by his side designing some of the Triangle’s most celebrated modern homes, including Chatham County’s Fearrington Village.

Striking out on her own wasn’t a priority. “I never thought I was brave enough,” she said, pointing out that women represented “almost none” of the architects coming up at the time. After getting harassed on multiple work sites, she almost quit “many times…” READ MORE