Milton Stricker

This poster was made to inform the viewer about Milton Stricker, an architect in Seattle Washington. He was an architect that to this day, amazes me with his story of how he became an architect and how he finally capture his creativity. His views on many things are similar to mine. As an early designer, he always wanted to know how an artist can call upon their creativity. This is a question I ask myself every day, well I think every artist as themselves this question. when he attended Carnegie Hall for architecture, he came up with this conclusion,
        Art is an Abstraction
        Architecture is an Art
        Architecture is an Abstraction
                                     Milton Stricker
This makes logical sense, this view of what architecture was to him at this time was taboo, during his early years of architecture school most of the professors wanted their student to design in a box. He said that most of the best project in his classes looked like a box. He did not let this discourage him on his views of architecture as an abstraction. In his last semester for architecture school, Milton dropped out of school to join Frank Lloyd Wright's fellowship program. He went to Taliesin West in Arizona to plead to Mr. Wright asking him to let him join his fellowship. He said no at first but then let him in free of charge for a year. He was finally given a chance to practice his abstract architecture. This leaded him to his style of architecture that is similar to Mr. Wright's "Nature through Abstraction". He became a great architect that never stopped learning his craft and only became better and better with time.

   This man got me interested in design through abstraction. He is a person I wish I could have met before he passed. He seemed like a great man that has truly become happy with his craft. I hope one day to discover my style of design and share it with the world.    

   
Uris Giron