When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.