With a whizzing sigh the Trees swallow us into The moonless gulf, A Jonah’s whale-mouth. The road twists a sapphire vein. The sea, that irresolute woman, Sighs and sighs again. A thousand faces arrive, and a Thousand leave. We are not islands, upon islands, seekers Upon the sands. Our ocean trajectories, confounded by The …
A tweaked photo-collage created with Photoshop.
At the intersection of Villeneuve and Avenue du Parc stand two carpet stores, facing each other. What happens when the carpets break free?
Braving the notoriously dangerous traffic, this short essay that I wrote back in 2007 is about a spontaneous, (almost) death-defying, 80 kilometer day trip by scooter to Chidambaram, a holy site in southern India. Sun-baked and fleeting, the humid South Indian landscape falls beneath the thrumming wheels of our old scooter. In a roaring blur, …
This is a tri-fold design competition poster done for a proposed project located at 47-50 West Street in downtown New York City, showing site plan, floor plans, building section, facade rendering, window details and elevations. (with Fox & Fowle Architects)
A strange encounter with a truncated door in one of Montréal’s quiet laneways.
An interpretative take on Montréal’s famous ornamental mansard roofs.
In the summer of 2009, I attended a treehouse-building workshop held by Treehouse Workshop, a Seattle-based company that builds gorgeous treehouses, run by Peter Nelson and partners. The workshop was held at Finnriver Farm, where over the course of the weekend participants learned the basics of selecting trees, design and structural considerations, which tools to …
Study of different regional vernaculars, the importance of siting and materiality was also emphasized. Sites included Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland.
Turning a ho-hum balcony into a little oasis of blooming green (or at least starting to!) one July weekend in 2009. For this one-day workshop / permaculture blitz, we made self-watering containers, transplanted tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, one banana and herbs, made a climbing wall, and started a rainwater collection system, made out of recycled election …
A community building for three local women’s groups, constructed out of (literally) earth-friendly, compressed stablized earth blocks (CSEBs).
A competition to design a new landmark building on Beijing’s Financial Street.
A traditional New England shingle-style house is adapted into an ecologically-conscious beachfront residence.
A sustainably-designed mixed-use residential & commercial development at the corner of Lexington and East 86th Street, with units ranging from two- to five-bedrooms.
A façade conceived as occupiable bridge for Venice’s Guggenheim Museum, located on the waters of the Grand Canal.