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Andrea Wallace

owner of Ink Built Architecture

From a very young age, Andrea Wallace saw what hard work looked like. Her mom, a single parent who successfully managed a veterinary hospital for more than four decades, taught her what it meant to build people up, balance family life, and be a leader that people respected and trusted. That example helped propel her into her professional life.

鈥淚 believe a Woman of Vision is someone who鈥檚 using their voice to speak up for what they believe in 鈥� someone who is a catalyst for change and working towards creating a more equitable future,鈥� Wallace said. 鈥淎 Woman of Vision is a leader but leads through empowering others and inspires others to blaze the trail alongside her.鈥�

Wallace, who founded Ink Built Architecture in 2017 with two other business partners, has helped guide the firm to unprecedent growth in the past six years, creating more than 500 units of housing across the Pacific Northwest, designing six Net-Zero ready projects, and helping make over $89,000 in donations to nonprofit organizations focused on environmental and social justice. She is an active mentor to others in the industry, has volunteered for several years for Architects in Schools Residency with the Architecture Foundation of Oregon, and has organized a team of volunteers for Build Days with Habitat for Humanity.

鈥淲e say that Andrea is a designer extraordinaire, hell bent on bringing the best potentials of design to bear in the quest to house our community through beautiful, sustainable architecture,鈥� said Melynda Retallack, Ink Built owner, in her letter nominating Wallace for a Women of Vision award. 鈥淪he has led the firm to focus on the things that matter most to us, designing for people, the planet and justice. Andrea embodies going above and beyond! Her boundless enthusiasm for design for people and a genuine ambition to seek social and environmental justice has brought Ink Built to where we are today.鈥�