Education

• University of Houston
• Madison High School

Favorite saying

• "A well-spent day brings happy sleep. Leonardo da Vinci Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. Leonardo da Vinci Art is never finished, only abandoned. Leonardo da Vinci The past does not exist. Everything is simultaneous in our life and culture. Only the present exists. In it we recreate the past and imagine the future. -Gio Ponti To make the right things is easy and pleasant; the difficulty is understanding which things are right. -Gio Ponti Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. Louis Kahn Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. Louis Kahn A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. Louis Kahn “To express is to drive. And when you want to give something presence, you have to consult nature. And there is where Design comes in. And if you think of Brick, for instance, and you say to Brick, "What do you want Brick?" And Brick says to you "I like an Arch." And if you say to Brick "Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lentil over you. What do you think of that?" "Brick?" Brick says: "... I like an Arch"” -Louis Kahn A Work of Art ... is not a living thing ... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of Man's Fingers. To some it is the wonder of the Mind. To some it is the wonder of Technique. And to some it is how Real it is. To some, how Transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once. And you look for it, and though you know it you must hear it again. Though you know it you must see it again. Truly a work of Art is one that tells us, that Nature cannot make what man can make. -Louis Kahn The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it. -Louis Kahn"