integrating spirituality & healing

In the early 1990’s with a recession, I temporarily closed my architectural practice and became the Director of Exhibitions at Tibet House New York where I set up an Exhibitions Department and produced the international exhibition Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. The show consisted of 160 works of art from the 15th to the 19th Centuries worth $80 million, borrowed from 34 museums and lenders, that traveled to the National Museum of Germany, the Fundacio “la Caixa” in Barcelona and three museums in Japan: The Tobu Museum of Art in Tokyo, the Chiba City Museum of Art and the Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum. The 360 page color catalog was printed in 5 languages.) and located and negotiated the purchase of Tibet House’s new cultural center in New York City.

I became focused on understanding the role of spirituality in human life and wrote a 12-part documentary series, World Medicine, that investigates the major medical traditions around the world that work, and how spirituality is a major component their practice and world view in of all of them, except in Western medicine.

Personally, I delved into Native American shamanic practices and integrated them into earth-honoring practices I utilize when breaking ground on construction projects. I also experimented with creating spiritual fields of different qualities in specific furniture pieces and this work is beginning to bear fruit. In my architectural practice I also integrated sacred geometric proportions and acknowledged ‘subtle energy’ practices like Feng Shui from China. I realized that a transformation occurs for my clients when they undergo a major construction project to their homes or apartments as their lives improve. I continue to understand and integrate subtle energy practices in my design work.