JILLM | Intern-Architect

I’ll never forget the day I decided I wanted to be an architect. Naive and twelve, I was invited into an unknown love as my father handed me a pile of leftover architecture magazines. My fingers thumbed through the glossy pages of buildings as I perused the images and studied the floor plans. Pulling out my graph paper, I drew and redrew designs with an uncanny intuition. As I slid walls, extended rooms, and articulated spaces, the act of creation connected deep into my core. With paper strewn all around me and pencil smudges on my fingers, I began my career as an architect.

A few decades later, I find myself on an architectural journey I never could have imagined when it began. My interests of responsibility and stewardship have lead me down a path towards sustainability, integrated design, and public-interest architecture. While traditional architects work with clients who can pay, I travel the globe and around my own neighborhood in order to provide design services and serve the other 90% of the world’s clients.

EXPERIENCE
Resume & Portfolio / LinkedIn

AWARDS & RESEARCH
2012 - Integrative Design: Rethinking the Way we Build
Published paper adapted from my Capstone paper and presentation
Published in: Association of Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS), Integrative Pathways, Vol 34, No. 1, William H. Newell Editor

2011 – Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good
Amy Sherman published an interview of me discussing my philosophy of the merging of my professional work with my personal values.

2011 – Integrated Design: Opportunities for Public Interest Architecture
Self Published Capstone paper

2006 – AIA Designing Tomorrow’s Architect Essay Winner
Selected to attend the 2005 conference “Designing Tomorrow’s Architect” in San Antonio, TX.

Intro to Public Interest Architecture

Only 10% of the world's population has access to designers and architects. Rather than continuing to cater to the world’s wealthiest 10%, a reorientation is occurring in our profession to serve the needs of the other 90. The global population is anticipated to increase to about 9 billion by 2050...

Integrative Design in Emerging Scholar’s Forum

One of my goals since graduating with my MA in Intercultural studies has been to find a way I can add my research back into the world, further contributing to the body of knowledge that has taught me so much. This month that goal was achieved as a summary of...

Statement of Contribution toward the field of Architecture

My journey to becoming an architect started before I even knew how to spell it. I’ll never forget the day I was invited into the world of design as my father handed me a pile of leftover architecture magazines from his construction office. My fingers thumbed through the glossy pages...

Cathedral of Christ the Light

i visited the Cathedral of Christ the Light (click on photos in the gallery on the left of the page) a few weeks back to hear the architect from SOM tell about the project. it's the first time i've gone to a lecture about a building in the building and...

Overrated Wonder

cross it off of my list of things to do in life. been there, done that; i’ve seen the taj mahal. what did i think? you may ask. overrated. i would reply. i know that sounds arrogant, it’s one of the world’s seven wonders. yes, it’s beautiful. it’s a brilliant white marble tomb. the finest example...