Innovative Infrastructure: selected projects with James Carpenter

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James Carpenter presents a body of work that is motivated by a deeply held agenda that seeks to explore the natural world and manifest its material, structural and environmental beauty in the built environment. The work is a synthesis of creative ideas and technical expertise that straddles, and better integrates, the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, industry and art. The breadth of our practice allows us to both forge innovative technologies and conceive creative implementations of existing materials and processes. Light in transmission, reflection and refraction as it is perceived, is the work's foundation and guiding principal. The resulting built environments reestablish and enrich the public's relationship with the phenomena that activate their urban experience. With over 30 years of experience synthesizing the phenomena of light into the experience of architecture, JCDA has developed a wide range of strategies necessary in creating environmentally intelligent buildings and environments. From the start of every project JCDA seeks out the natural relationship between the environmental concerns of a project with the desire to heighten the individual's experience of place. James Carpenter studied architecture and sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 1972. Mr. Carpenter actively exhibited his sculpture and installation film projects in the United States and Europe and worked from 1972 through 1982 as a consultant wit

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