In spring 2009 I earned a professional Bachelor of Architecture degree from the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech, located in the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Currently I'm an architectural designer at KPF in New York City.

In general I try to maintain a holistic approach to the design and realization of my work — to allow multiple techniques and methods to sustain my enduring interest in architecture and its detail at all scales.

June 1986 — present :

At an early age, I became very interested in drawing. The act of representing my observations on paper taught me a great deal about visual rules and the composition of my surroundings, and has led to my fascination with the structures, spaces, and textures of the built environment. Today, my curiosities have extended from the graphic realm to the tectonic concepts of joinery and construction. I focus much of my design around the idea of craft: that there is a common aesthetic between art and architecture found in the details. Also important to me is the latent potential of existing structures and materials, and the inherent sustainability in the re-appropriation of these artifacts into our contemporary urban fabric.

In my studies and travels, I've been able to observe many types of architecture across the world, and realize the universal significance of a building that has been carefully and rigorously designed to work as a machine for living. As I continue to grow as an architect, my goal is not only to make visible the daily routines and processes of everyday life, but also to create stuctures that encourage a more active understanding of the reasons behind individual architectural decisions. I believe the authenticity and transparency of the idea, expressed in the form of the architectural object, may illustrate a building's functional role as a necessary intervention into the natural landscape.

As I transition from the academic to the professional realm, I hope to continue my investigation of tectonic diagrams, programmatic layering, and new hybrid building typologies, as well as to develop the parallel relationship between these theoretical speculations and actual real world constraints. In my spare time, I continually undertake self-initiated projects which stem primarily from personal research into a post-industrial allegory of the human mark on the landscape and in time. I work with a strategy of technological palimpsest, in which new and old techniques of representation and construction are superimposed to create a more dynamic craft of architecture.

At the core of my work, I seek a layered depth of architectural meaning — a composition of simple graphic and tectonic gestures that establish a timeless, iconic sense of place. In the end, I strive to draw and build structures that are enigmatically alluring, proportionally striking, ecologically conscious, vaguely familiar, and architecturally uncanny...