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Studies in light and form

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Twin Marina City towers rising into a clear blue sky, their circular balconies stacked in a honeycomb pattern.

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Chicago

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Marina City towers and an adjacent dark glass skyscraper against a sky of breaking storm clouds.

Architectural studies in Chicago: the Marina City towers from street level and sky, the Chicago Architecture Center, and a structural model on display.

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Chicago Architecture Center facade framed by a colorful street banner, curtain-wall tower reflections behind.
A wooden cross-beam structural model at the Chicago Architecture Center with a tower facade in the background.

2022

Getty Villa, September 2022

Classical architecture and garden geometry at the Getty Villa in Malibu: coffered ceilings, a reflecting pool, koi ponds, and ancient sculpture in gallery light.

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Looking up through Ionic columns at a coffered ceiling with gilded diamond-pattern tiles and a pendant lamp against blue sky.
The Getty Villa's main reflecting pool stretching between pergola columns and clipped hedges, terracotta roofline beyond.
Detail of the Getty Villa exterior: white stucco frieze with terracotta antefixes above Ionic columns and gridded windows.
Lily pads, a white water lily, and koi moving through the sunlit shallow water of a garden pond.

2023

Laguna Beach, July 2023

A dusk sequence through Laguna Beach: a golden sunset over utility lines, a corridor framing the ocean, street life at the intersection, the transit trolley, a coastal mural, and warm-lit storefronts.

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A street lamp and utility lines cutting across a glowing golden sunset sky above Laguna Beach.
A corridor between teal stucco walls and balconies opening onto the Pacific at dusk.
A red Camaro and motorcycles stopped at a Laguna Beach crosswalk in late-afternoon light.
Laguna Beach Transit trolley moving through an intersection against a warm evening sky.

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Los Angeles

A Los Angeles sequence moving between brutalist landmarks, The Grand by Frank Gehry at golden hour, the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in monochrome, a Pacific sunset, and stone cairns at dusk.

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Sharp concrete skylights and angular rooflines in monochrome against a flat sky.
Walt Disney Concert Hall in black and white, its billowing stainless steel curves across an empty street.
A glowing lantern-like window cube suspended in a stone facade at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
A brutalist tower with a helical ramp wrapped around a perforated concrete shaft, palm trees below in golden light.

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Pacific Coast

Pacific Coast studies across multiple visits: Big Sur sea cliffs, beach sunsets, a pier at blue hour, palm trees at dusk, and Highway 1.

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Sunlit sea cliffs at Big Sur dropping to deep blue water with a rocky islet below.
Stone cairns silhouetted against a vivid orange and gold Pacific sunset over a rocky beach.
A long pier extending over blue-grey water at dusk, pink and blue gradient sky above, palm trees at its end.
A wave crashing white against a rock jetty with a dark mountain headland rising along the coast.

2023

Palm Springs, November 2023

Interior studies at the Palm Springs Art Museum: wide gallery rooms, a spider sculpture under a curved skylight, a starburst chandelier, a geometric illuminated sphere, and a Kali Artographer retrospective.

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A symmetric gallery room at the Palm Springs Art Museum with a gridded industrial ceiling and colorful works on white walls.
A large spider sculpture mounted on a curved white wall beneath an arched skylight grid, in black and white.
A starburst chandelier suspended in a warm circular alcove with ribbed walls.
A geometric illuminated sphere made of interlocking polyhedra glowing in a dark gallery.
Looking straight up the Transamerica Pyramid from its base, its textured concrete taper rising into broken clouds.

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San Francisco

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A downtown San Francisco street canyon with the Bay Bridge visible between towers at the far end.

San Francisco: the Transamerica Pyramid from its base, a downtown street canyon with the Bay Bridge in the distance, Chinatown lanterns and street life, and the Gold Mountain Sagely Monastery sign.

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Chinatown street with red lanterns, a centered 'Do Not Enter' sign on a lamp post, and a crowd beyond.
The Gold Mountain Sagely Monastery sign in Chinese characters and English, Chinatown skyline behind.