Hi, thank you for being here.
I hope that through my work you have begun to understand my design goals and sensibilities. I owe so much of what I know and how I think to where I grew up - a rural Kentucky farm. I always thought I would work in environmental sciences, and changed course when I saw this enormous void in the building industry I felt I could fill. I was never attracted to architecture because I love beautiful buildings, I was, and continue to be attracted to architecture because I feel so strongly about fixing the human habitat.
For my full resume click here. I want to leave you with an excerpt from a book I owe a lot to.
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher ‘standard of living’ is worth its cost in things natural wild and free.
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Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
-Foreword, A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
