In the broadest sense, my interest lies in addressing the accommodation of contemporary life and culture. From a pedagogical standpoint, in both architecture and urbanism, what are the conditions requiring inventive responses in concept, strategy and delivery? Which tactics, techniques and thought processes can instigate architectural experimentation on both abstract and concrete (material) levels? Along with the formulation of the architectural question, discourses in architectural education as well as in practice are initiated through modes of thinking and producing. Specific methods of working affect the insightful emergence of architectural proposals and praxis.

Specifically, an architecture grounded in urbanism and landscape is a collective endeavor to construct a new mode of practice where techniques and modes of operation historically described as landscape design can be integrated into the domain of urbanism. Landscape provides a thematic and scaler opportunity to engage directly with the systems of forces that continuously reconfigure the city. It offers the double opportunity to reframe urban problems and to recontextualize the practice in general.

This field of research deriving directly from professional and academic experience is the direction to be investigated in a Maters Project Studio, Spring 2004. The studio will speculate on dwelling and working, recreation and leisure, infrastructure and nature, in Northwest Atlanta.