Randy's profile

“I stepped out of my own existence and found myself.” ---Fernando Pessoa in The Book of Disquiet

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I often step outside my professional existence to draw and think about dwellings—some inspired by words and ideas, others emerging as pure, stream-of-consciousness meditations. These are my oneiric houses—houses of daydreams. Regardless of scale or proportion, they are places where imagination dwells and wonder finds structure.

I draw with a fountain pen in sketchbooks, but I also sketch in the digital realm. Each image—whether scanned from paper or modeled in software—records the same search for form and meaning. My tools include Adobe Capture, Trace, SketchUp, and Render-In, among others.

Born in Donora, Pennsylvania, I earned my degree in architecture from Carnegie Mellon University and have practiced in Baltimore since 1979. My architectural work is socially conscious—focused on design that serves disenfranchised and underrepresented communities.

I am co-editor and publisher of T3XTURE, a journal exploring ornament, texture, and pattern in contemporary architecture and design. T3XTURE No. 4 was selected for inclusion in the “Reading Room” exhibition, part of the New Urban Challenges Festival organized by Itinerant Office at the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome. The festival recognized “emerging publishing projects, developed in new and experimental forms, that open unprecedented windows on the issues of the present and outline the potential new urban challenges of the future.”

I also authored DRAW • MODEL • PROMPT: Tectonic Speculations, a collection examining how drawing, computer modeling, and artificial intelligence now intersect in architectural practice. From hand sketch to algorithmic iteration, these works explore the shifting role of the designer—from maker to curator—and how technology reframes imagination itself.

My drawings, models, and speculative works trace that quiet transformation between thought and tool, between the hand and the cloud.

 

 

 

 

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