It was during my last two years in a high school drafting class that I started working on a house design that had a glass stair case and a sunken glass living room. ( yes it was the early 70’s when sunken living rooms were all the rage ) .
Photo from Hospitality Design
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| From October 31, 2011 |
My high school drafting teacher , Mr. Nolan, didn’t tell me that my glass house design was impractical or unattainable . Instead he encouraged me to continue to design and handed me an application to Harvard’s Graduate School of Design summer program in architecture
Nervous and armed with an immature portfolio I headed off to Harvard in 1976.
In a rather odd turn of events I did not get into the Architecture department as I had hoped , instead I was placed in the Landscape Architecture program.
Inside Gund Hall - my desk was on the second floor about where that jacket is hanging.
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| From October 31, 2011 |
Outside view of the GSD
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| From October 31, 2011 |
Link to the GSD website
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/news/all-news/feed.html
It’s been 35 years later from that first class in L.A.(landscape architecture) and I am still intrigued to design with glass.
Working with recycled broken glass
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| From San Francisco Garden Show 2008 |
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| From San Francisco Garden Show 2008 |
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| From San Francisco Garden Show 2008 |
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| From San Francisco Garden Show 2008 |