Date of Sketch: January 28,2006
A year later images of the Grand Canyon sunrise merged with the immediacy of designing Tanglewood 2. While listening to Debussy's 'Afternoon of a Faun' this sketch previewed the house's main living space.
Date of Sketch: October 30, 2004
T2 at Tanglewood went through many iterations. In this sketch the house appears as a wavy 2-story structure sited on a hill. Ligeti's musical influence here is of the atmospheric attempting to move towards greater definition. As Ligeti's "Lotano" was in part inspired by a particular German Renaissance painting, so it is well known that music can inspire architecture. It seems necessary to search many possibilities on the way to finding something acceptable to build. This sketch is one at the beginning.
Date of Sketch: October 30, 2004
The second of 5 sketches depicts a covered viewing platform projecting into the air, looking towards mountains on the horizon. Inspired by a Grand Canyon sunrise years earlier this sketch re-captures the immersive experience of becoming part of the view. Drawn while listening to Schoenberg's "Five Pieces for Orchestra," atmospheric in character, the piece labeled "Things Past" has particular resonance with the earlier Canyon dream.
Date of Sketch: August 20, 2004
This sketch and four successive sketches track the design of the Tanglewood House. Remembered from a dream of sunrise over the Grand Canyon, spheres of different sizes rolled across the sky flashing their neon colors to the amazement of people standing on the rock precipice jutting from the Canyon wall.
Date of Sketch: April 9, 2010
A 5-story residence on a corner site, clad in white Carrara marble.
Date of Sketch: March 18, 2006
Sited atop a high overlook with expansive views, the professional lives of the clients, painter and real estate developer, are housed in separate wings, one looking north, the other south. Their personal lives meet in a central portion facing west towards the Blue Hills of Massachusetts. The lower portion of the site contain a pool.
Date of Sketch: October 16, 2010
Inspired by Mahler's Fifth Symphony Part lll and the expressive architecture of Erich Mendelsohn this music library would contain Mahler's musical world on the intimate scale in which the composition was written, and contain a small public performance space on the ground floor. The conclusion of Mahler's Fifth was composed for his new love Alma Schindler who became his wife and his musical inspiration for the rest of his life. The Fifth Symphony's premier performance, which Mahler conducted, was performed in Cologne on October 18, 1904.
Date of Sketch: April 1, 2006
Ten years ago this industrial building in East Boston was available for redevelopment. Since then the building across the street has been redesigned for loft living. The concrete structure at 196 Orleans St is re-conceived with multiple bay flats and exuberant rooftop living units.
Date of Sketch: February 12, 2011
A monumental dream of sound which combines the familiar with the improbable, the anatomic and anamorphic, which generates a quasi-architectural form.
Date of Sketch: July 24, 2009
Proposal for a new Exposition Hall, Expo Lisbon, with Grand Plaza entrance.