CURRENT MISSION

To make fantastic public space...

ABOUT ME

Fun, funny, charming, witty, well traveled, stylish, spontaneous, I feel slightly embarrassed about the question.

PHILOSOPHY

Live life beautifully

Interests

Cooking- lots of fresh ingredients, not too many heavy sauces, I prefer to let the quality of the ingredients come out
biking,
reading- catch 22, love in the time of cholera, my name is red, war and peace, Vineland, the master and margarita
Photography- landscapes and people mostly and of course the light. In some ways every photograph is a portrait of the light...
Parks- I think one of the best ways to understand a city is to spend a day in the park, central park, tiergarten, Vongel, Retiro, Duisburg Nord...

• architecture
• photography
• cooking
• flying
• reading
• painting
• cycling
• hiking
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - the Kills, Radiohead, TV on the Radio, Jay Z, I break horses, Interpol, Johnny Cash, Ulrich Schnauss

Movies - Rushmore, Miyazaki anime (studio Ghibli), tree of life (anything Terrence Malick does), dazed and confused, Superbad

Books - White Noise, love in the time of cholera, catch 22, my name is Red, the Unbearable Lightness of Being, a Clearing in the Distance, the Master and Margarita, war and peace, The wind up bird chronicle, hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The sunset over Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the orange scattered light painting the stones while seeing the jungle stretch forever.
Hiking from the bottom of Yosemite Valley to the top of half dome. Looking out across 4000 feet of open space below me while watching the eagles fly in the distance of the Sierra peaks.
Seeing the greenflash for the first time off the coast of Guam...

Teach, Learn, Share

Stuff I am good at...photography, I've been professional for over ten years. Cooking, I make a tasty sauce from scratch. street trees, can't be a landscape architect if you don't know your trees...

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Germany, Guatemala, Laos, Malaysia, Netherlands, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States