YOUNG ARCHITECT

Te Ao Hou, June 1961, Page 43

YOUNG ARCHITECT Alexander Reko Hesselin, aged 24, is employed as an architectural cadet with the Southland Education Board, Invercargill, where he has been employed since he was 18. He has practised both draughting and field work at all primary schools in Southland during this period. He spends his spare time studying for the Professional Examinations of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, and his studies are almost completed. His final two years of study will be spent at Auckland University School of Architecture on the diploma course, and then he hopes to continue in the Education Service for a few more years before travelling overseas in search of more practical experience. His other interests are tramping, art collection, and music, both classical and popular, and driving, but he finds that his studies take up most of his time, between seven and eight hours a day, mainly at night, though he sometimes works in the early mornings before his day's work.