PHILOSOPHY AS ARCHITECTURE AS PHILOSOPHY
It is all about making something which is totally appropriate in character, fit, size, shape, color, and scale. Combining short and long term cost considerations and energy efficiencies, responsive to available materials and labor [particularly local], with the interior spaces carefuly modeled in scale and proportion, light both natural and artificial treated as not only a necessity but an artistic medium. Overall to create a work of pleasing function as well as art, with rhythm and harmony, warmth and charm, dignity and relevance, color and texture, a blending of natural and human made materials, with a human scale to all. Each and every part related to the other parts and to the whole such that it has the integrity of wholeness. All of one piece.
BACKGROUND in a nutshell: Origin: a farm in NE rural Connecticut. College: U. of Chicago Great Books Program. Apprenticeship: five years directly with Frank Lloyd Wright. Advanced apprenticeship: eleven years with Taliesin Associated Architects [the continuation of the Office of FLW]. Practice: Since 1970 in the Seattle area, including Lopez Island. Interludes: [projects in other localities]. One year in Iran. Four years in Fairbanks. One year return to the FLW Foundation. Three years in Ashland OR. One year in Marin County CA. Currently based on South Whidbey Island WA.
PROJECT TYPES Land Steward Planning & Design (including farms)
Town & Village Planning & Design
Campus Planning & Design
Schools, Libraries, Places for Performing Arts, Movie Theaters (A-V)
Churches
Museums & Galleries Restaurants
Natatoriums
Bridges (any size - bigger the better).
Shopping Centers
Office Towers
Multi-family dwellings (including apartments and townhouses)
Group Homes & Co-op housing
Motels & Hotels
Custom Houses, Prefabricated houses, Cottages & Cabins.
Have a variety of stock plans.
Product design
Graphics
Art Glass panels & Windows
Grave markers & Monuments
Waiting shelters
Hybrid woodstove/fireplaces with special chimneys & spark arrestor caps
Crossflow wind turbines to be incorporated in or on buildings of many types
Towers for Crossflow wind turbines
Storage systems for wind energy.
With associates depending on type of project and location.
In fact, design of almost anything ethical.
[Drawing of U. of Alaska Fairbanks School of Art, Craft, & Design, including Architecture. May not be reproduced without permission.]