I attended UC San Diego in 1970. I wanted to be a marine biologist having been wowed by Jacques Cousteau as a kid. I worked as a student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, just down the hill from UCSD. The post doc in the lab was married to one of Cousteau’s crew members, and we became very good friends. I also worked for a sculpture group in Ocean Beach in San Diego.
The art won out, and I was accepted into a three-year master’s of architecture program at Cal for folks with degrees in other fields. I taught at Cal and was on a team that won a competition to design an energy-efficient California state office building in San Jose.
Career wise, the rest was history for me. I have been successfully practicing architecture for 40 years in San Diego, Martinez + Cutri Corporation.
