I am a Minnesota-based designer. I am one person who collaborates with many. My work is distinguished by an interest in quality architecture in a classical sense: to address the interaction between people, places, and materials by means of building.

I believe that when I devote myself carefully enough to the study of the reciprocal relationship between a building’s purpose and the place it will occupy, an architectural response will emerge, as if it was always there. Purpose, place, and experience generate a tension that in turn becomes the impetus for a design, as if it could be only that way. Place fascinates me. It is only through an intentional and intuitive design process that the relationship between building and place can be extracted and incorporated.

I work towards an architecture that operates with enduring methods that preclude easy compromise. It is the work of many – between composer and conductor. It is work which never begins with preconceived notions of a final outcome. The architecture I seek to create can only be made manifest through an intense design process which focuses on people, places, and materials. It is a design process that attempts to capture the experience, the qualities, the atmospheres of architecture in the true sense of the work.

A good building evolves though the knowledge and skills of many. I need clients who want to create things with me from scratch because they believe that special architectural values can thus be cultivated and that it is worthwhile following this path together. I need colleagues and specialists who plan, construct, and draw with me. I desire to work with people whom I can talk about my designs, who can criticize and praise them, who take responsibility, and who are prepared to invest their thoughts and talents in my projects. Together, we question and examine the specifications of the initial brief: confirm, reject, revise, and add. It is only through these intense dialogs that a new, special project will occur. One that is both familiar and new, something never before created but is as if it had always been.