About
My life’s odyssey is one of divergent paths: scholar, navy submarine officer, architect, emerging artist. A connecting thread throughout has been a fascination with the varied landscapes I have experienced, and a profound respect for the global environment. Adolescent explorations of Vermont’s meadows, woods and mountains were grounded in a traditional classical education: studying Latin, translating Virgil, learning trigonometry and geometry in the manner of Euclid, and reading the likes of Dickens, Hugo, and Thoreau. Upon completion of high school, I was appointed to the US Naval Academy and subsequently served in the Submarine Service, an intensive education in the science, design, construction and operation of experimental technology and innovative life support systems. After graduating from Annapolis, I travelled across the country by car to my first duty station on San Francisco Bay; the first of six such explorations of the North American landscape. During subsequent life at sea, I experienced a different sort of exploration, navigating across the North Atlantic solely by the sun and stars.
I carried these experiences with me to the Harvard Graduate School of Design and through nearly fifty years of architectural practice. I have now transitioned to writing, drawing, and printmaking to illuminate the cultural phenomenon of placemaking and stimulate our imaginations towards a more harmonious relationship with the earth.