After two short years I was promoted to Associate while demonstrating a unique ability to continuously evaluate and revise the design process in order to maximize efficiency in design as well as meet client satisfaction. I was promoted again two years later to Senior Associate | Design Director and am now responsible for managing and educating fellow team members through the re-established KMA design process from inception to building completion.

My recent investigations have focused on questioning the origin of a process, which can allow us to read, translate, and map our encounter with place.

The artistic act is invoked not as an act of self-indulgence, but as an act of self-confrontation.  For a brief moment at the origin of this process, architecture is pure, intense, and poetic.

This initial exploration of media questions the standardization of practice, and ultimately searches for the appropriate medium to bridge personal meaning with global identities. The transformative essence of the artistic act itself generates self-awareness to interpret more critically the organic information of space.

Historically, architects have produced a self-referential practice characterized by the standardization of expression and the separation of interests through specialization.  In this fragmented context, architects become objects of information rather than subjects of communication.  We must reflect our position, adopting an attitude through our role in the process of production. 

How do we filter the nature of these forces so that our cities can become active theatres that allow for new narratives to emerge?  How is it that we open our process of design to idiosyncrasy and difference?  How do we build a critical position based on what we make and what we think?