Welcome to my new website! This is where I will be posting my progress in my current class: Integrated Design 5: Architect as a Spatial Agent, and where I will continue posting my work, thoughts, ideas, goals, and inspirations throughout my architectural career, so this website will grow as I grow.

I’ve been studying architecture for the past 5 years now, and I’m finally getting a sense of where I want to go with it. Combining my passion for architectural design and my interest in science and global crises, I want to become a humanitarian architect. Some of the biggest humanitarian challenges we face come from our environment; from declining resources to pollution. If we want to maintain life on this planet for many more generations to come, some major changes need to be made in this generation.

While many organizations continue to raise awareness of environmental issues and what we, the everyday people can do to help prevent a global crisis, that can only go so far. Not everybody is willing to play their part recycling, turning off the lights, etc. That’s why I will be focusing on the roles that science and technology play in the designed environment. If we can’t get everybody to turn off their lights when they’re not using them, then why not build a more efficient bulb? That’s exactly what three Japanese and American scientists did when they produced the first blue LED in 1992, the same year I was born, allowing the production of white LEDs, which are now the most efficient mass market lighting used all around the globe today.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/popular-physicsprize2014.pdf

In the architectural discipline, there are many, many areas for improvement, from heating and cooling to material production and transportation. With so many opportunities, I look forward to working towards the next big solution. Let’s change the system!