That led to work at Emory University, Tech, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Valdosta State University and Duke University. Lord is now leading the firm in the renovation of a portion of a public health lab for the City of New York. He is also expanding into science buildings for colleges, serving as a workshop leader for the National Science Foundation-sponsored Project Kaleidoscope, an interdisciplinary program designed to attract students to science careers and create better learning environments. These spaces expose everyone to science, as does simply having windows where students can see people working inside, in the labs. There are a lot of parallels.
Scientists work creatively, trying to put the pieces together.
Building on Interests rchitecture has been Lord's focus since high school in Mobile, Ala., where a teacher noticed that he was always drawing something and suggested that he, pun intended, build on that. He chose Tech, then joined the Navy Seabees after graduation. He served in Vietnam and the Mediterranean, staying an extra two years in Italy and Greece to supervise Navy facilities at a NATO base. He used his knowledge of the basics of construction to teach local workers. He told me I'd be a fool not to take it, that I'd catch up and pass them.