My Story

 

Welcome to my digital portfolio website. As a licensed Architect for over 40 years, you will find my portfolio includes healthcare, public, educational, justice, and commercial projects. I hold a 5-year professional degree in architecture from the the University of Arizona, am LEED AP BD+C certified, a member of the National Council of Architectural Boards, and served three years in the Army medical corps during the Vietnam Era. I maintain architectural registrations in Arizona, and California with the majority of my experience planning and designing projects throughout Arizona, a state I have lived and worked in since 1971.

 

In the late 1980's, as a project architect at Orcutt - Winslow, I became interested in sustainable architecture, exploring the integration of natural light, and passive design concepts into my early designs. Today I continue to search for solutions respectful of client goals, local surroundings and the environment, using hand sketches, SketchUp, Revit and Enscape3d, while balancing project goals, budgets, and schedules to ensure projects succeed. As an artist I enjoy exploring the abstract imagery in architecture and my surroundings through sketching, mixed media, photography and 3D software. On trips I still carry a sketchbook along with my camera, and my wife still prefers the drawings I drew early in my career to those produced using 3D software.

 

As a member of the Phoenix community I have participated as an advisory board member for the Arizona Board of Technical Registration for over four years, served on the Board of Directors and Executive Board for Valley Forward, presented at multiple school career day events, mentored ASU architectural students, worked as an IDP supervisor for NCARB applicants, supported a number of local organizations such as the Arizona Theatre Company, and was a member of the American Institute of Architects for over 24 years.

 

ARCHITECTURE has influenced my career and life for well over 40 years and continues to be a source of joy.  With technology have come new ways to explore and communicate design ideas, yet a simple sketch is still often the catalyst for new ideas influencing our surroundings. As someone who has embraced technology as a means to better explore and communicate architectural designs, I have still not found a substitute for the balance that joy, talent, knowledge, common sense and collaboration bring to the success of a project.