Welcome to my World

My career as a Building Designer began as a young boy living in a suburb of Los Angeles.  Across the street was a strip center with a Thriftymart (if you remember that chain you are older than you think).  Between it and the Five and Dime store was an appliance store.  Often I would drag home from the rear of that appliance store every large cardboard appliance box I could get my hands on.  Once collected into the back yard I would go hunting for my mom’s King Kong scissor she used for cutting heavy fabric.  I had to make use of them quickly before she discovered their absence as she didn’t like it much when I dulled her sizers on cardboard.

Taking scissors in hand I would cut openings in the boxes for doorways and windows.  Basically fabricate houses, forts, imaginary air-raid shelters, or whatever the focus of play was for me and friends.  And if I wasn’t cutting boxes I was stretching my bed sheets across my bedroom, stapling the corners and edges to the wall, into a tension structure.

When I was in Jr-High I had my first exposure to a T-Square and other drafting tools.  In metal shop we had to complete the drafting of an object before we could start putting hand to tool.  I got a C+ on my first try but enjoyed it so much I redrew it and got a B+.  Since then I knew I wanted to design and eventually I attended Sci-Arc in LA.  What you see and read here is my love for Architecture but what is even more special to me are the people I have had the privilege designing for.