Gary Cunningham - Mentor for Design

Gary is an architect who taught me the importance of the dubious slang word "Stupid." Gary is now a world renowned architect. He kept me fed from 1976-1988 with many exciting projects to build. I learned the importance of design over execution, and most importantly the importance of simplicity to good design. Gary's favorite complement at that time was the word "stupid", meaning it was so simple, so outlandishly functional that it didn't cause any attention to itself, and therefore worked perfectly. It took me years to fully understand what that meant, but I have used it ever since, and probably confused others ever since, as a result of my usage of that private slang term.