Trained as a draftsman to understand the practicalities of what makes Architecture but always the interest in Design and its power of turning the ordinary to extraudinary.
All day, every day looking and appreciating other design, but most importantly a desire to create, to make more accessible the everyday, and re imagining from differing angles a designs possibilities to come up with something that both satisfies at a cerebral and practical level.
It was more it hit me. The feeling that I could create was overwhelming, the freedom to do so within constraints gives such strength to the latent possibility of an imagined or real world project.
The love of a well designed house, to big ideas from a commercial building to a master planned design, and back to the smallest detail... sound greedy but everything between.
Find passion in what you do. It’s purely personal and must come from within. Once you have this you can collaborate with other designers or professionals to achieve a vision.
Can be on so many levels. From practicality, to been your favourite colour... it is and always will be the initial integration to the human condition, look, feel, action and ease of use.
Design often becomes background when it is part of life, a bread cutter or lemon squeezer, that you have and don’t necessarily think on as it is part of a daily ritual. Seeing if course an object or a architecture for the first time and feeling and understanding its use, it’s power to transform thought.
Desire, feeling joy, anger, passion to a design. Making it breath by envying emotion to each fold, corner, choice of material and the way it casts shadow...
Always the omnipresent Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, the measured steps of Herzog & de Meuron, and the spirit of design by Steven Holl, and the metaphysical instinct of John Hejduk.