In my own words,
New Directions & Frontiers
Through tough times, I pull myself together, focusing and strengthening real and proverbial foundations and cores. As part of a massive team of design architects between 2005 and 2012, we designed skyscrapers and mixed-use developments in New York City and Seattle. However, early in my career there was a crisis. Personal crises combined with the disintegration of the societal pillars people frequently overlook, but that nonetheless provide support, can have a devastating and far-ranging effects. Yet, such a period of instability is also an opportunity for growth.
After personal tragedy, America suffered the worst economic disaster to ever occur in modern times. I took an extended hiatus from career to climb over mountains both figurative and literal. It was upon one of these mountains outside Washington, District of Columbia, that I found a new home. I returned to architecture designing new dwellings for self, friends and the public. I am always interested in spatial architecture and how we as people- complex organisms interact with natural and constructed environments. Initially the focus was on human-occupied, physical constructs.
People can change the settings in which they operate; they can rebuild, sometimes with ease. With training, intelligence can compare the results for continual improvement in the physical world. Personally, I found that better understanding the architecture of our universe was a primary driver in life. For me, dwellings and office spaces are venues for such activity and observation. A perturbation in deep space or even within a parsec from earth can change lives on earth profoundly. Therefore, our solar system and the deep space beyond our sun offer great opportunities and dangers. Perhaps by understanding the universe, we improve life.