ABOUT THE

Writing well is usually not easy for an architect, and writing honestly really tough for someone who has spent a dozen years in the software industry. It’s not exactly that we lie; we lie inexactly. Exciting ideas come and go so quickly that we sometimes blur the articulation of a new idea with the rationalization for an already obsolete idea. In both technology and architecture, we spawn and then we spin. It's a bad habit.
This disclaimer, coupled with a few biographical milestones below, disclose my double handicap as an architect who worked more than a decade in the software business and came out the other end as an architect.
After receiving my M.Arch from Georgia Tech in 1982, I started practice in Atlanta working for a small firm that specialized in small to medium size residential and commercial projects. We bought our first CAD system in 1985 for the sole purpose of qualifying to compete for some library work. The best ROI we could achieve for this investment was to turn it off and lock it in the closet. Even then, I understood that technology was just a practical means to another end.
I went to Europe for three months in 1986 and managed to stay 6 years, falling into the CAD software business. I remained in the software business as president of Graphisoft US for an additional 7 years in the US before returning to a conventional practice in a less conventional place using less conventional methods in 1999.
Today, DNM Architect is a 4 person firm focused on residential projects and using software tools that I was fortunate to play some role in forming as well as new tools that are continually evolving and becoming practical to use.

REV: 11/21/08