INTRODUCTION:
Jack was born in Vancouver, B.C. After high school he started his own company renovating homes, everything from carpentry, to plastering, to design work. This hands-on experience ignited a passion for architecture. He went on to study at the UBC, graduating with degrees in Fine Arts and Architecture.
As a residential designer, he has designed many of his own residential projects, as well as having many years of experience working in architectural firms. He is passionate about architecture and likes to work in a collaborative manner with clients, consultants and the municipalities.
Jack’s commitment is to develop his drafting and design skills and to always create outstanding and innovative residential design projects .
TOWARDS A NEW WAY:
Industrialization and commercialization of our culture have fragmented our people, our buildings and our world. Extreme oppositions have polarized us and we see divisions in every area of our culture. Mutual commitment and relationships have deteriorated due to a lack of listening and understanding. Movement towards a better architecture and a new way of being in the world can occur by listening and becoming more aware of the people and the places around us.
The vision of modernism in architecture was to work towards designing buildings with purity, economy, simplicity and clarity. These values seem appropriate for a society seeking more human solutions in living. Why not build simple honest buildings that engage our fullest attention. The nostalgic architecture of the last few decades was trying to give the masses what they wanted by redefining an architectural language that was lost in abstraction. This language became overloaded with symbolism and historical references and sadly enough it became meaningless. A language of architectural elements like roof, wall, porch and alcove could be articulated, simplified and joined together with care, attention and beauty to begin to honestly express their purpose and meaning.
Architecture comes from thinking about an idea thats works on many levels. The modern aesthetic tends towards finding essential geometries and well thought out systems of organization. An architecture that is generated from both complexity and essential geometries provides better explorations of a multiplicity of ideas. An architectural idea may start from a notion of people connected to view, procession, narrative, light or structure. Finding an essential geometry or simplicity within the fabric of a system of complexity allows architecture to develop a sense of diversity and delight. The rational and the orderly complements the sense of purpose and intent. An architecture coming from experience and order begins to reveal itself as a well crafted process of design.
Conversations and dialogues between degrees of oppositions can become a dance. The dance would always seek some kind of union or possibility of being unique, original and in harmony. The dance would evolve and could become a sequence of patterns or an intersection of issues and ideas. Solutions for building a more sustainable world would be discussions in contrasts of our use of materials – brick, glass, wood and concrete – seeing the benefit of using particular local materials. Thickness of walls, the air tightness of the building envelope and orientation towards sunlight becoming important factors to consider in the design.
Architecture for the future needs to resolve our current uncertainties in the world. We need to engage more in our humanity – our contrasts of darks and lights in our feelings and experiences. Systems of geometric shapes with variety in color and texture with an intention connects us more with our humanity and our natural surroundings. Towards a new way in our architecture is about bringing more creative ideas concerning our humanity to the table for discussion, engaging in our past in fresh magical ways and having original ideas in our palette to create the future.