JILLM | Intern-Architect

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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 / LinkedIn / Portfolio

RESEARCH
Integrative Design: Opportunities for Public Interest Architecture, unpublished
Presentation / Paper

WRITINGS
Posts tagged with “Architecture“

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...

Sustaina-What?

’so, what do you do here in the city?’ i get this question a lot. it’s the natural result of being a new person… i get asked the most basic of questions over and over again. and the benefit of the exercise is i’ve had countless opportunities to practice my response....

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...