TED Community » Quentin Parker
About Me
With over twenty-five years of professional experience in private practice as a registered architect, Quentin operates an architectural office specialized in high-end, custom designs. Located in Long Beach California, our commissions range from mid-sized commercial buildings to exclusive, single family residences. Currently we are working in conceptual design for an efficient, sustainable, 150,000 sqft. hotel commercial complex in the Mojave desert, applying the latest PV and wind turbine technology.
A majority of Archwork commissions are located in Southern California, with a few projects in Florida, Vermont, New York and South Carolina, as well as completed residences in Singapore and Europe. Quentin is N.C.A.R.B. licensed and accredited to practice architecture internationally.
In 1990, Quentin was selected as the “1990 Dream House Architect” for L.A. WEST Magazine. In other commissions he applied green technology in design development of highly efficient, low-cost housing, Foam Domes© using poly-isocyanurate compounds with epoxy-resin based shells to create low-impact shelters. This was followed by the The Qube House, a design concept establishing an innovative fast-track, Type V construction methods with prefabrication of composite construction systems for California’s geologically challenging sites. In 2005 Quentin developed a design for a component-built (16 week) 2,420 sq.ft., loft-style vacation home, Domo Vitae.
- Location:
- United States, Long Beach, CA
- Current organization:
- AIA, NCARB, LEED AP
- Current role:
- Architecture Firm Principal
- Gender:
- Male
- Areas of expertise:
- Creative Writing, Creative thinking, Innovation, Design Practice and Methodology
- I am:
- Activist, Artist, Designer, Environmentalist, Inventor, Technologist, Writer/Editor
- Associations:
- Greenpeace
- Languages:
- German, French
- My website links:
- www.archwork.com, archwork, domo vitae
- Universities:
- NCSU, Harvard
More About Me
I'm passionate about
Earth
Good design
Less talk -more action
intelligence, succinctly
brevity of expression
synergistic anything
hope and desire
An idea worth spreading
Here’s to the crazy ones,
the misfits,
the rebels,
the troublemakers,
the round pegs in the square holes,
the ones who see things
differently.
They are not fond of rules
and they have no respect
for the status quo.
You can quote them,
disagree with them,
glorify or
villify them.
About the only thing you can’t do
is ignore them,
because they change things,
they push the human race
forward.
And while some may see them
as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world
are the ones who do.
Think differently.
By Craig Tanimoto
Talk to me about
architecture
design
innovation
building
People don't know that I'm good at
all creative appliocations
building extraordinary things
adaptation of technologies
concepts both scientific & evolutionary
My TED Story
We need more time
to help disseminate
and synergize what TED is.
We simply do not have enough
minutes in the day
to get the things done
which need to be completed
in symposia.
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