DESIGN PROJECTS

In our world, experts can come together to create something more impressive than anything they could have created on their own. Collaboration feeds creativity when done correctly, bringing forth the best solutions to seemingly impossible situations. As a future designer of the environment, I yearn to be a part of those solutions. As individuals work together by listening, understanding, revising, and implementing, we can all share responsibility for the environment we create.

I aim to have my contribution encourage healing and reprieve found within the environment. As Wendell Berry found peace among the wild things, I too hope to preserve our world for the search for peace within nature. The built and wild worlds are merging faster than ever before, requiring meticulous planning to offer spaces where others too can “come into the peace of wild things”.

The Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down were the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.