He graduated with a master’s in architecture degree from the University of Washington in 1997, where he wrote his master’s thesis on “Housing in Response to the Human Life Cycle.” Since then, he has been designing a range of residential projects, primarily senior housing and multi-family mixed-use developments. Emory and two of his colleagues have recently started their own architectural firm (ZAI Inc.), which focuses on universally designed residential environments that are flexible in plan so that they can accommodate the changing physiological and socio-economic changes that people are likely to experience over the course of their lives.