philosophy
My practice is one of careful listening and observation, creativity and acuity, guidance and emergence. I lead individuals through processes of collaboration and exchange, exploration and translation, direction and facilitation, to create a responsive and responsible environment for lived experiences. I align this practice with the clean lines and clear spaces of a functional modern aesthetic while integrating the specific and idiosyncratic, the desired and required, the imagined and intuited from the individual.
For me, the structure or environment emerges as a response to the assignment, site, purpose, and materials. The design process is based on a constant interplay of feelings and reasoning; the preferences, longings, and desires that emerge must be managed by critical reasoning and tested against the essential criteria, with precious moments of intuition resulting from patient work.
I explore a precise and sensuous use of materials grounded in elemental knowledge about their qualities, aligning the practice with a fidelity to matter. The art of construction is making a meaningful whole out of many parts and pressures. Details express what the essential idea of the design requires at the relevant point; connection or separation, tension or expansion, solidity or fragility.
Context provides meaning and meaning is specific to place and time. I aspire to design structures and environments that, in time, grow naturally into being as part of the form and history of their place; new constructions that enter into a meaningful dialogue with the existing situation, and the intervention making apparent what already exists in a new light.