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| Radda in Chianti |
Inspiration
can strike anywhere: on a walk the other day a line of cypress trees cast a
striking pattern of shadows on the road. Long, dark, linear shapes
crossed my path and as I passed over each one I started making mental notes
about the contrasting colors, number of shadows, and angle of lines. A
vision came to mind; this could easily work itself into my next
project. On this particular morning my inspiration began on a walk up a quiet,
country, road surrounded by nature.
When I
was an architecture student at USC and was given an assignment, I recall having
only a few hours to develop a concept, in other words…inspiration HAD to
strike. I would exhaustively research the topic and location assigned (i.e.
history, community, environment, geology) and then I would start sketching. My
project’s story would begin to unfold and over a short period of time a
building and its details would take shape.
