Edmonton Journal

In our culture, we half expect our star architects to be ego-laden artistes, like Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, driven to shape our world in their image. Donna Clare doesn't fit that type. Slender, soft-spoken, elegant, looking much younger than her 47 years, Clare, a partner with the Alberta firm Cohos Evamy, has never sought the limelight, never sought to impose her dramatic signature on the buildings she designs. When you look at a building by a star architect, such as Douglas Cardinal or Daniel Libeskind, you can say, "Oh yes, that's a Cardinal" or "That's a Libeskind." Few people drive around Edmonton saying, "Oh look, there's a Clare."