WELCOME TO LIFE ARCHITECTURE

I’ve spent years designing homes, products, and myself. While I’m the first to admire a perfect architectural element or hand-crafted object, what really fascinates me is the interaction, the interplay of everything in life, from the finite – like structural form and function, to philosophies like vision and growth. Just as my team and I create program lists and architectural drawings to guide us toward design objectives through repeated refinement, we can frame ourselves and our lives similarly, too.

After all, we’re all works in progress, constantly evolving through our choices, our rituals, our relationships, and the environments we move through.

As I begin this new journey of examining home and life on a deeper level, I’m reminded of what I love most about design: it’s personal. My greatest joy is the clients and colleagues I’ve met along the way. Their creativity around their own lives, their stories of success and failure, along with how they and their families live and use their environments, constantly inspire me. I’m convinced the best homes are shaped by the people that live within them.

While I’m a big fan of AI and emerging technologies, neither of them can replace the human experience. When I design a home, I’m setting a stage, but the real magic happens when my work is done. That's when the uniquely human experience begins - that esoteric, yet-oh-so real orb of energy, spirit, and intellect that exists in all of us - expands with space. We are the greatest drivers to designing the most important things in life.

In the Living Edit we aim to explore what I call the stuff of life, every week – the experiences, studies and stories that better connect us to ourselves and to others.

We’ll start at home because it’s the stage that speaks volumes about us – where we’ve been, who we are, and where we’re going. Whatever our relationship to home is, it shapes us. The rituals that define our days, how our space makes us feel, the objects that matter most to us, these are all ways we see the world through the lens of home. Combined, these things shape the way we show up everyday and influence our thoughts, our taste and our greater world view.

The universal thread we share as humans is that we all seek comfort and connection, and if we’re really lucky some small part of that springs from home. What we make of it…well, that is indeed the grand experiment of it all.

Welcome to this world I call Life Architecture. It means so much that you’re here at the beginning with me. I hope you’ll subscribe to follow along. Join us too on Instagram or any of your favorite social platforms for the visual notes that often spark the conversation.