About Me.
I was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, home to America's Blues and its culture. Currently, I am a fifth year architecture student at the University of Arkansas, Fay Jones School of Architecture here in Fayetteville. Coming from an impoverished region, I knew very little about architecture and its history outside of antebellum homes and Dollar General stores which both equally consume much of the built forms in the region. Over the past four years of school in the architecture program, my knowledge base and design abilities have opened up and been expanded beyond what I could ever imagine myself capable. I have developed a strong appreciation and passion for architectural history, specifically dealing with the Modern era. I have found that it has had the most impact on the way I think, design, and analyze my work whether it be a studio project or historical analysis.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has created the greatest inspiration and motivation for my own work. Not just his simplicity of the form and materials of his work, but most importantly, his attention to detail. I developed early on in my education a strong interest for the emphasis on the detail and its importance to the whole of an architectural design. Since my first attempt at designing the details during my second year, I have gone on to see much of Mies' works. I have analyzed them through both literature and design so that I may better understand his work in order to help me further understand and develop my own architectural project that will continuously evolve throughout my career.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has created the greatest inspiration and motivation for my own work. Not just his simplicity of the form and materials of his work, but most importantly, his attention to detail. I developed early on in my education a strong interest for the emphasis on the detail and its importance to the whole of an architectural design. Since my first attempt at designing the details during my second year, I have gone on to see much of Mies' works. I have analyzed them through both literature and design so that I may better understand his work in order to help me further understand and develop my own architectural project that will continuously evolve throughout my career.