PORTFOLIO OF ARCHITECTURE

INTRODUCTION

I was born to be an architect. Never did I wish to be anything else. There was probably no option for me as my father was also an architect and five generations before him were designers and ship builders. I have dedicated my entire life to architecture without a protest to my fate. My formative years were spent in a rural setting in the
historic Hudson River Valley. From there I went on to University studies where I awakened to the world beyond. Puerto Rico and I found each other early in my career. There was a sense of returning to the Caribbean as my mother’s family had roots in Guadeloupe and Cuba of the 19th century. I came with a bias
towards modern architecture, having studied under Josep Lluís Sert at Harvard and worked with R. Buckminster Fuller. However, like others of my generation, I was not influenced by any one person but rather more by the task at hand, using the materials,