I recently came across these images taken with a radiograph by Leslie Wright. They are powerful images that speak to the beauty of hidden phenomena. They create architectural spaces that are not only spatial but evocative.

"The Hive"


Hard Drive


Fluorescent Bulb


Wentletrap


Foxglove


Motorola Mobile Phone

Peter Zumthor

"There is a power in the ordinary things of everyday life, as Edward Hopper's painting seem to say. We only have to look at them long enough to see it."

from Thinking Architecture

Updated 2009 Portfolio

Young Living Master Plan Springville, UT
Scholz + Associates
Project Manager
Currently in: design development
Contribution: site planning and programming, 3d modeling (sketchup), artwork, design of amphitheater, proposal design and layout, interview presentations.


OlsenBeal Addition Lindon, UT
Scholz + Associates
Project Manager/Designer
Currently in: awaiting construction
Contribution: programming, building design, drafting, project administration, consultant coordination, 3d modeling (sketchup).


Bamboo Hut Tenant Improvement Salt Lake City, UT
Scholz + Associates
Project Manager
Currently in: constructed Spring 2009
Contribution: design, drafting, construction administration.


Progress Manufacturing Spanish Fork, UT
Scholz + Associates
Project Manager
Currently in: design development
Contribution: design, programming, 3d modeling (sketchup)


Harward Irrigation Mixed-Use Lehi, UT
Scholz + Associates
Project Manager
Currently in: construction
Contribution: design, programming, visualization, drafting, construction administration, site layout, engineer coordination.


Barcelona Architectural Center Barcelona, Spain
Academic Work
group project with Adam Jensen
Currently in: design development


Sport Court + Office Spanish Fork, UT
Freelance Work
Currently in: awaiting construction


Zulu Nutrition
Freelance Work
Currently in: design development
Contribution: branding, graphic design, product/packaging design, website layout.


Architecture of Hip Hop Watts, CA
Academic Work
Currently in: design development


Water Cafe Kyoto, Japan
Academic Work
group project with Ryan Berry
Currently in: design development


Caroline Lameman Residence Navajo Reservation, UT
Academic Work
group project with 2006 Design Build Team
Currently in: constructed Spring 2006
Contribution: design and construction.


Downtown Rising Salt Lake City, UT
Academic Work
Currently in: design development
Contribution: development of schematic design solutions for 3 city blocks in downtown slc, development of character zones for downtown slc.


Slide House
Freelance Work
Currently in: design development


Spain Sketches


India Sketches


Japan Sketches


United States Sketches


Faces of India


Taj Mahal, India


Rural Utah


Images of Japan


Other Professional Work

Aspen Lakes Pavilion: Wasatch County, UT
Scholz + Associates, Project Manager
(construction in progress)


Brentwood Condominiums: Provo, UT
Richardson Design Partnership, Project Manager/Designer
(awaiting construction)


Camblin Condominiums: Provo, UT
Scholz + Associates, Project Manager
(design development)


Condie Construction Office: Springville, UT
Scholz + Associates, Project Manager
(construction in progress)


Eagle Mountain Library Addition: Eagle Mountain, UT
Scholz + Associates, Project Manager/Designer
(construction in progress)


Midas Creek Office: Draper, UT
Scholz + Associates, Project Manager/Designer
(construction in progress)


Renaissance Academy Addition: Lehi, UT
Scholz + Associates, Project Manager/Designer
(constructed Spring 2009)


Rivoli Theater Renovation: Springville, UT
Scholz + Associates, Project Manager/Designer
(design development)


Roylance Cabin + Barn: Aspen Grove, UT
Scholz + Associates, Project Manager/Designer
(construction in progress)


Tornow Condominiums: Provo, UT
Scholz + Associates, Project Manager
(design development)

Vitruvius

"The architect should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgment that all work done by the other arts is put to the test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. Practice is the continuous and regular exercise of employment where manual work is done with any necessary material according to the design of a drawing. Theory, on the other hand, is the ability to demonstrate and explain the productions of dexterity on the principles of proportion.

It follows, therefore, that architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance. But those who have a thorough knowledge of both, like men armed at all points, have the sooner attained their object and carried authority with them."

taken from The Ten Books of Architecture: The Education of the Architect

No. 52 of 101

"An appreciation for asymmetrical balance is considered by many to demonstrate a capacity for higher-order thinking."

"Whether creating a static or dynamic composition, an artist usually seeks to achieve balance. Balance is inherent in a symmetrical composition, but asymmetrical compositions can be either balanced or unbalanced. Consequently, asymmetry tends to require a more complex and sophisticated understanding of wholeness."

Taken from 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Peter Zumthor

"Young people go to university with the aim of becoming architects, of finding if the have got what it takes. What is the first thing we should teach them?

First of all, we must explain that the person standing in front of them is not someone who asks questions whose answers he already knows. Practicing architecture is asking oneself questions, finding one's own answers with the help of the teacher, whittling down, finding solutions. Over and over again."

Taken from Thinking Architecture

Napkin Sketch

Here I am just letting the pen bleed out something that resembles architecture. What it really means or what it really is, is still a mystery. (fyi - I am not really digging the pitched roof.)

Juhani Pallasmaa

"Instead of creating mere objects of visual seduction, architecture relates, mediates and projects meanings. The ultimate meaning of any building is beyond architecture; it directs our consciousness back to the world and towards our own sense of self and being. Significant architecture makes us experience ourselves as complete embodied and spiritual beings. In fact, this is the great function of all meaningful art."

from Eyes of the Skin

OlsenBeal Addition

Lindon, Utah
A few weeks ago I was approached by a good friend and contractor, Cody Trotter, to help him on a project that he was going after. The owners were debating on whether or not to expand their offices. Cody and I collaborated together and I quickly drew up some preliminary sketches for Cody to present. When Cody walked in they were pretty dead set on not doing the addition, but after a few minutes of looking over the renderings, and I am sure an excellent sales job by Cody, they decided to move forward.

The past couple of weeks have been great working with Cody, the owners and the engineers to make sure everything comes together and that the design is not compromised - in fact it has only improved. OlsenBeal is a company of engineers and metal fabricators - specializing in bridgework and wind turbines. Part of the inspiration for the design came early on when one of the owners said, "We are metal workers, we don't build with wood!" This stuck with me, resulting in an architectural expression came from a desire to "show off" the metal and the business of OlsenBeal. This generated an aesthetic of exposed wide flange beams, corrugated steel and a corten steel rainscreen. To accent the fenestrations we are using welded corten steel boxes that protrude from the facade adding depth as well as being referential to the corten tower. The entry is a voided space that begins to reveal the inner workings of the office and takes advantage of the natural daylighting opportunities on the site. The brick work is referential of old warehouses as well as being a design requirement from the city. The plans and engineering should be done in the next couple of weeks and construction will begin shortly after. I am really looking forward to it.

Louis Kahn

"The architect's job, in my opinion, and I must close on this, is to find those spaces, those areas of study, where the availabilities, not yet here, and those that are already here, can have better environments for their maturing into those which talk and say things to you and really make evident that the spaces that you make that are the seat of a certain offering of man to (the) next man. It is not an operational thing. You can leave that to the builders and to the operators. They already build eighty-five percent of the architecture, so give them another five percent if they're so stingy, so very selfish about it, and take only ten percent or five percent and be really an architect and not just a professional. A professional will bury you. You'll become so comfortable. You'll become so praised, equally to someone else, that you'll never recognize yourself after a while. You get yourself a good business character, you can really play golf all day and your buildings will be built anyway. But what the devil is that? What joy is there if joy is buried? I think joy is the key word in our work. It must be felt. If you don't feel joy in what you're doing, then you're not really operating. And there are miserable moments which you've got to live through. But really, joy will prevail."

Lecture at Pratt Institute (1973)

Jay Lems

The other day I came across this sketchbook/portfolio by Jay Lems while I was researching the Bailey Traveling Fellowship. Jay was the 2001 recipient of the fellowship and the following images were part of his winning proposal. I was impressed by the mixture of analog and digital media, as well as the way in which the images successfully evoked an emotional response. I really appreciate the richness and texture of the charcoal as well as the saturation and unpredictability of the water colors.
Enjoy!