nine years abroad

After a year in Poland I moved to Paris and found work with Andrault, Cacaut et Parat Architects planning a new 6,000 University of King Faisal in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. I wrote a 120 page report, A Comparative Analysis of University Planning Types.

I became the Director of Projects at the International Council of Museums (ICOM), a non-governmental membership organization at UNESCO, Paris and with the Secretary General, created a consulting practice giving technical assistance to national museum projects through funds-in-trust at UNESCO. We provided technical assistance planning museum renovations, additions, exhibitions, conservation programs, inventory systems, management structures and staff training programs for five national museum projects (see my Bio). I ran our Cairo office for a year where we worked on the Egyptian Museum, the Nubia Museum and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

In Dharamsala, India, the home of the His Holiness the Dalai Lama in-exile, I assisted in reorganizing the Library of Tibetan Works, especially the Lakhang (temple/museum).

Iker and Mayan Larrauri and Jorge Agostoni and I were one of five semi-finalists in the Grand Louvre Programming Competition to reorganize the Louvre Museum in Paris. After my travels to India I worked at I.M. Pei & Partners Paris office and was responsible for one-quarter of the first phase of the ‘pyramid’ project: the bookstore, shops, and the reserves for paintings, all underground.