Living with Land
To honor this place, the Southwest, what we build is more of a growth out of the gifts of the world found here than it is a mere tabula rasa , blank slate, where we can merely ‘put' anything that fits the magazine images that so overwhelms popular culture. Read more...
The Elements of Design
The architect does not randomly produce fine design. It is the oeuvre, the life's work of applied discipline that leads to complete understanding of the production of the built environment.
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MISSION STATEMENT
ne could simply state that architectural design is a combination of the client's program, taste, budget and the architect's skill in providing that for which the client hired him or her for. However, this hardly explains the vision and intuitive ability that must be applied to the design program. The quality of the design is dependent on the understanding that the built environment is more than program and budget. It is a unique wholeness that serves not only function but the realization of an intangible field of expression, feeling and connection with the total environment, both within the boundaries of the specific lot and beyond. “Good” design engenders the highest possibilities of life, creativity, work, rest, play, contemplation, family and seclusion for the client and the users of the total environment. Finally, the good design allows for appreciation and discovery of those special moments and values that elevate human awareness and experience. It is a remarkable fact that the finely developed environment is synchronous with this elevation of awareness and experience. Fine architecture is, as it were, the realization of the highest values and expression of environment as art expressed in the natural elements of wood, earth, water, fire and air. It is my mission, as an architect to provide this highest expression of architecture for my client and the client's users.
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