Why I want

My father is an architect. He designs and builds mostly utilitarian buildings – apartments, schools, bridges. When I was a little girl, I watched him spread out on his work table giant rolls of papers. He drew symbols and lines and told me not to touch them. At the time, I wasn’t aware that I was watching him create blueprints for buildings.
Though I wasn’t aware of my father’s work, I must have absorbed some of his creative talents – he says that he gave me pencils and crayons to keep me busy and that I drew and colored happily for hours. I still do. I love most to draw objects from daily life, ordinary objects that we see so often we don’t notice them. I enjoy seeing those objects in different, unique ways. I am interested in art and design not only because of the beauty of its expression, but also because of a reality beyond its literal, surface expression. For me, the unique challenge of the designer is to achieve functional efficiency without sacrificing aesthetic principles, and to express that achievement in a way that can be understood by others.
Architecture may be the most complete and complex of all the design arts. If ever architecture expressed spiritual ideas, it’s in medieval Gothic structures. If ever architecture expressed geometrical symmetries, it’s in monumental Classical architecture. If ever architecture expressed startling, unfamiliar possibilities, it’s in 20th-century Modernist structures. Architecture is design that we use, lived-in design, design that must first be useful if it is to be built. Architects who can add beauty to usefulness make lasting contributions to the lives of the people who live and work in their designs.
Architecture is complex design because it involves structural as well as aesthetic concerns. Architecture is not just the structure and the exterior of a building – it is the interior space as well. And that is what most interests me. Without a well-designed interior, a building cannot succeed. The outside and the inside must be the same. Think of a red apple sitting on two different tables, one made of wood and the other of glass. Although the same apple sits on the tables, the appearance of the apple is different because of the difference in the tables. Similarly, interior design has the power to change the perspective and the qualities of a building. Each well-designed building has its own purpose and design, and a major part of every building’s success or failure is its interior design.
Color, organization, shape, lighting, space, furnishings – these are the elements of design that I love to work with