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Returning to Oklahoma City, after four years in the
Air Force, I ended the 60’s in a seven-year affair with Architecture.
Beginning as a draftsman/designer of luxury
homes, I next turned to independent freelance home design. When this
became routine, I took various jobs designing hospitals, clinics,
offices, and restaurants trying to bring more of nature into
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I used on-site sketches to crystallize
the client’s vision of the buildings they were considering. Follow-up
drawings often led to signed contracts. From then on my job became the
drawing of all working floor plans and elevations, as well as electrical
and mechanical sheets including specific construction details. |
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Forest Gardens for instance, was to be an 800-bed core hospital facility,
augmented by a complete medical office building with underground parking
for 900 vehicles. The actual structure would be 903, 863 sq. ft. This
proposal was not built, but several others were.
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