Things I cant live without

... the things I cant live without

Travel & Experience

We learn from what we see and know

Sete, France    Study Abroad 

Athens, Greece

Paris, France

San Francisco, California

Grand Canyon, Arizona

Home


Guilford, Connecticut is the place I grew up and have lived my entire life. Most of my memories and things I cant live without come from my experiences at home. Growing up on the water made summers my favorite time of the year. Summer is something that I could never live without

Jacobs Beach

Thanksgiving tradition Gozy's turkey farm

Great Architecture

Being an architecture students means I have a strong position on what I think is good or bad architecture. This is a collection that I believe is very powerful work done by successful architects. I have visited all the these places and feel they have influenced the work I do.

Community Art

http://www.postsecret.com/

An ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard

Nature
...and all its unpredictability and beauty.

Mt. Snow, Vermont

Weather (and the effects of rain)

Diagram during La Nina showing the change of temperature of water off of South America from warm to cool.

Cloud Seeding- A form of weather modification to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds, by dispensing substances into the air that serves as cloud condensation or ice nuclei.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Fuller is a non-specialist who addressed the universe as a whole and who has the rare ability to think on a universal scale.  His goals were not to invent a new house, car or map but to anticipate the design science of the future developing ideas, designs and inventions regarding inexpensive shelter and transportation.

The Dymaxion House was designed and developed in the 40's with innovative features designed to be inexpensive to produce, purchase and assemble during a housing shortage. Fuller used his ability to design for the future to develop houses that could have changes the world of private housing.

Quotations

Red Rock Museum, Denver, Colorado
"Architecture, like man, must tread lightly on earth, for the earth endures"

"Be the change you see in the world"