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The Pavilion for Oblivion (2007)

This project was a response to a call-for-entries for the first “theme issue” — “fantasy architecture” — of AIArchitect, the newsletter of the American Institute of Architects. Renderings and the narrative for the project were published in the July 27, 2007 issue. An upright stone in a puddle of rainwater…or two, or five stones…a few fragments of a curving wall,   » More
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Plesiosaur, Pt. 1 (2005)

Near the end of my prolonged penance in architectural education, I found myself with enough credits to take an elective course, and I settled on one that dealt with aluminum casting. The curriculum required us to come up with an assembly of somewhat-mass-produced metal forms that could be created using basic sand-casting techniques; create the necessary match-plates which would be   » More
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Agamemnon (2005)

In 2005, I took a class in digital fabrication, and at a certain point I was tasked with a project to incorporate the concept of “inlay.” The presumption was that the various elements to be inlaid would be described using a CAD program and then cut from flat stock (such as chipboard or balsa wood) using a small lasercutter with   » More