"It is the easy to say that the sporting stadium, arena, or venue is the modern-day equivalent of the Roman Colosseum—yet, this is not entirely true. Yes, it still illustrates the most distilled form of entertainment and athleticism a city has to offer. BUT, it is also a recreation of the Roman Forum, where the commercial ventures and cultural identity of a city is embodied. It is the revival of a Roman cathedral, where a devout follower prays to their own personal religion—sports."

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“Sporting venues, more so than any other form of architecture, are the physical embodiment of the American Dream. It is a palace and battleground for athletes, whose combination of natural talent and hard-nosed work ethic can carry them as far as they can dream. No matter their hometown or rung on the social ladder, creed or color, or beliefs, players can attain anything through hard work. A venue is simply their platform to do so.” 

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“I always seek to challenge my abilities through my designs. In a Natatorium where emphasis was placed upon the traffic of athletes to fans or the logistics of mechanical systems, I still explored outside of the boundaries to create a rooftop park for the enjoyment of all. In a Children’s Science Museum that required flashy exhibits marketed towards Autistic children with sensory deficiencies, I still found the room to include an educational rain garden as well as several ramped spaces for informal presentations or movie nights. In a Mixed-Use Tower design that necessitated an outdoor plaza to break up the dominance of the architecture, I still served as a proponent to retain and renovate three existing, yet dilapidated structures on the project site. At a Scientific Research Station, at Earth’s South Pole, grappling with the inhospitable atmospheric and geological factors of its location, my design still harnessed natural weather conditions for energy production and became a nomadic structure.” 

"Challenge is what makes Mixed-Use design so invigorating and rewarding. Reconciling visual aesthetic and continuity of differing programs with the security concerns and physical separations between programmatic zones is NOT easy. Yet, these exact challenges allowed me to wake up each morning with a genuine excitement to tackle these design problems. Difficulty urges the gears in one's mind to churn at full speed, instilling an architectural thrill."

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