I seek an architect’s insight derived from twentieth-century modern housing in Europe to expand the horizon of my design efforts. To study work developed before the modern movement lost utopian substance is to track how ideals are embedded in building, endowing it characteristic gravitas. With my firm, I work with intuition and conceptual rigor. With one eye on the past, another on the future, architecture is linked to the moment through a creative understanding of today, and the task to sustain history and cultural expectations. The home is the essence of architecture; good architecture is a space that transposes to any scale the intimacy of home, a universe in miniature. The direct experience of such transpositional tricks is the key to my proposal. I aim to collect and describe the effects of simple, sophisticated design maneuvers that define the works I will visit and study while in Rome.