AFFILIATIONS:
American Institute of Architects - North Carolina
http://www.aianc.org/
North Carolina HealthyBuilt Homes Program
http://healthybuilthomes.org
North Carolina State University's College of Design
http://ncsudesign.org
United States Green Building Council
http://www.usgbc.org/
CANON:
Experienced with a reserved judgment and a heightened sense of discovery, expectation, and understanding, the canon, in architecture as in philosophy, helps us in our quest to make the quotidian extraordinary.
Villa Mairea, 1940 by Alvar Aalto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Mairea
Villa Savoye, 1930 by Le Corbusier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Savoye
Farnsworth House, 1951 by Mies van der Rohe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnsworth_House
Fallingwater, 1937 by Frank Lloyd Wright
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater
QUOTATIONS:
"We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us." >Winston S. Churchill, October 28, 1943
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." >R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path
"Goethe, who in speaking of Paganini hit on a definition of the duende: 'A mysterious force that everyone feels and no philosopher has explained.' So, then, the duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought. I heard an old maestro of the guitar say: 'The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.' Meaning, it's not a question of skill, but of a style that's truly alive: meaning, it's in the veins: meaning, it's of the most ancient culture of immediate creation." >Garcia Lorca, Theory and Play Of The Duende
"The task of genius, and humanity is nothing if not genius, is to keep the miracle alive, to live always in the miracle, to make the miracle more and more miraculous, to swear allegiance to nothing, but live only miraculously, think only miraculously, die miraculously." >Henry Miller
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." >Anais Nin
"You is must tell self of need for want truth." >Park St. Bridge, 1990
