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Jeff Shelton

I grew up at the base of the Santa Ynez mountains in Santa Barbara, in what had been an early 1900’s boarding school. My family lived in a Library, an Infirmary and in classrooms. I didn’t live in a building designed to be a house until college.

In the hills above our paradise of old school buildings was the Mountain Drive community, where residents were building homes out of adobe, used lumber, wine bottles and ferro cement. One of the founding residents was Architect and Philosopher Frank Robinson, who became my mentor. When I graduated from Architecture School at the University of Arizona in Tucson, I worked for Frank, who taught me much of what I know about architecture.

I worked in downtown Los Angeles for ten years, which gave me experience in how to approach projects, as well as the difficult situations that arise during the process of designing and constructing buildings. I spent a few years with Brenda Levin and Associates where I worked on the Bradbury Building, Grand Central Market, Traveltown in Griffith Park, and the DWP Pumping Station in Elysian Park.

In 1994, I returned to Santa Barbara with my wife and two daughters, and opened up a temporary 100 square foot office on Victoria Street. I’d been there a week, and was still setting up my draftin

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Beginning in 1970 and over the next 24 years, Jean Nouvel formed four different partnerships with other French architects, eventually taking the name Architectures Jean Nouvel in 1994. Nouvel began to acquire international recognition for his work in the 1980s, culminating in the critically acclaimed Cartier museum (Paris, 1994).

The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art (1994) in Paris is representative of the perceptual illusions that are the crux of Nouvel’s architecture. The layered glass walls, partly framing and sandwiching the existing trees (including one planted by the writer Chateaubriand in 1823), create ambiguous perceptions of the building’s volume and mass. As one walks or drives along Boulevard Raspail, the glass face, with its changing reflections and refractions, appears to alternately materialize and vanish. The “Parisian jewel,” as it has been called, is often photographed under different lighting conditions, as if to call attention to the building’s primary existence as a light prism.

The glass-walled exhibition spaces are well-suited for the iconoclastic artwork for which the Cartier is known. Issey Miyake’s 1998 exhibition “Making Things” particularly captured the ambiguity that is characteristic of the architecture. Similar to Nouvel