October 28, 2019
A couple weeks ago I posted the news that my Grizzly Peak project of a few years back is featured in the Winter 2019 issue of Atomic Ranch, a great magazine focusing on all things mid-century Modern. Sooner than I expected, they shared with me the digital file for the...
October 15, 2019
Like a lot of people, I post to my blog far too rarely - but when your work gets published, it calls for an entry! Atomic Ranch reached out to me about my Grizzly Peak project from a few years back, and here's the nice piece in their Winter 2019 issue (I'm waiting for...
November 28, 2018
A few shots of a project I finished this year--renovating both bathrooms in a traditional bungalow in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland. Even small projects like this offer opportunities for thoughtful details and my clients were engaged and enthusiastic througho...
November 27, 2018
I was happy to invite colleagues and friends to my new-ish space a few weeks ago for an office warming/early holiday vibes party. It was nice to have folks from disparate parts of my professional and personal life mix and mingle, some co-tenants brought in a DJ and a...
August 19, 2018
After all the work--from the initial ideas to the final drawings, from the first days of demolition to the finishing touches--it's always great to see a successful project nearing completion. Especially so when I've got clients who are engaged and happy with the proce...
September 19, 2017
The architect Louis Kahn famously told his students that one might ask a brick, "what do you want, brick?", to which the brick would reply, "I like an arch." A little cute, maybe, but I've found the underlying idea helpful. What Kahn was encouraging among designers i...
July 10, 2017
...of things made entirely by the human hand." -Willa Cather.
In an age of ever-more advanced digital tools (architects know programs like AutoCAD, Revit and Rhino), there's still nothing like a drawing done by hand. For me, at least. There's definitely a...
May 18, 2017
So far, 2017 has been a year of change and transition for me--among them, a new office, a new email address, and a new website, which you're seeing here. This image came to mind as I set various wheels in motion over the past weeks and months: it's from the poster com...