Architecture since forever- Constructions too.
You might know of the mnemonic trick that travelling story tellers used in recalling the days-long epics of man’s oldest stories in pre-literate times. They imagined a palace of many rooms filled with objects that were cues for the next part of the story. It is the same with practicing architecture, when you work on buildings and houses, you inhabit them. You know each room intimately and all that history, research and discussion that went into every decision and every detail. You can tell the story of how it came to be. You live with and within that imagined project for the duration of its coming into being, for years. But I arrived at a point when I wanted that space for another purpose. I turned to making constructions, or returned, since it is an involvement that preceded architecture. It has all the concern with form that is my central obsession, without the deep engagement in the workings of the real world that architecture requires for the privilege of building. The palace is fallen, and I now play with the pieces.
During my time as an architect I worked on multi-family housing in Manhattan and supportive housing in Brooklyn; private homes, restaurants, retail and wineries in the Bay area. Larger scale projects include the National Audio Visual Conservation Center for the Library of Congress in Culpeper, Virginia, and an award winning Senior Living project in Kobe, Japan.
