John Van Dyke is a designer, architect, adventurer, and storyteller, sometimes doing all at the same time. His book of his seven year journey discovering something about us, BOOM! Is available from your bookseller, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
His passion is design and architecture.
Following 21 years as head of his internationally recognized design office based in Seattle, Washington, he developed a beach front property in Mexico and designed a stunning house, Casa J, a featured house of the month in Architectural Record Magazine in 2016.
He is now planning a new project that will involve land and architecture, located in the Palouse area of Washington State.
The rolling agricultural area of Washington State called the Palouse is where I am designing and building a special place.
As a storyteller I invite you to discover with me, Americans, prior to the great chasm that has divided the country. Travel along with me in my book, BOOM!
Talking with people, as I traveled around our country meeting strangers, having random conversations in this time of uncertainty and change.
History books will talk about us — and this time— long after we are gone. It will be a complicated history of technology, generations, finance, power, politics, media, and humanity.
John Van Dyke
Today we live in a paradox
everything
is hyperconnected,
yet very little is truly close.
Design is what connects us.
Design brings us together, creating new forms of proximity. Not only between people, but between bodies, spaces, objects and uses, technologies and experiences.
I was curious about my country and what was happening to us. I set out to discovery who we were in 2017. Today I have an understanding.
Nothing truly exists on its own. An object, a space, a gesture acquire meaning the moment they enter into relation with what surrounds them. The same is true of a people, we take shape within a context, respond to needs, changes, habits, and produce effects. It is within this network of connections that we find ourselves.
I believe today we are in a revolution within ourselves, dealing with aging and a generational shift of ideas.
