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The High School Years
Tim Shockey was interested in architecture and building from an early age. He began drafting at the high school level. During the four years of hand drafting there, he interned for a local contractor drawing small residential additions. In 1987, Tim was selected as one of the two top drafting students to learn computer aided drafting at a nearby business. The program was archaic, but nonetheless, new and on the cutting edge of the field. In his spare time he built several things such as a playhouse for his sister and a half pipe skateboard ramp.
The College Years
Tim began taking general education classes at Cuesta college in San Luis Obispo, California. During that time, he began working part time for a local contractor/owner laying the foundation for a two-story custom home on a hillside. Several months later, Tim went to work full time for the builder until the house was complete.
The University Level:
In 1991, Tim was accepted into Montana State University, a fully accredited 5-year architecture school. Tim was one of 50 to be accepted into the second year of the program out of 250 students. It was here, where Tim learned the importance of design through model building. Almost every project he did was through sketches and models. He was one of the last to graduate without the aid of computer aided drafting. His excitement for design and critique was recognized by several professors. By his third year, Tim was selected as a teacher's aid, helping with studio design classes and critiquing first and second year students' work. His thesis project, a windsurfing center, raising and falling with the tides of the San Francisco bay, received honorable mention. He graduated at the top of his class.
Out in the REAL World
Tim moved to Austria and worked for several firms there. He introduced model building to the firms, and gained insight into the building techniques of European countries. He was fortunate to attend a lecture by four great architects in Milan in 1996, which had a lasting impact on him. Frank Gehry, Tado Ando, Peter Eiseman and Phillip Johnson. Phillip Johnson's words created a drive to break away from all the technology of computers, and "fad architecture" and focus on the spaces, the form and the spirit.
After three years abroad, Tim returned to his hometown of Menlo Park, California and began working for a small architecture firm. There he again initiated scale model building as a means of design and concepts. When he arrived there in 1998, there was one old dusty model on a shelf. When he left in 2003, the office was covered in models. It is now an office policy, to build study models for all projects. They have proved useful to owners, local jurisdictions, builders and structural engineers as well as enabled the firm to make the most out of each design.
As of December 2003, Tim resides in Stockholm, Sweden. He is interested in bringing his work ethic and model building skills into the offices of other architects. He hopes to learn more about the design and construction of the beautiful buildings of Stockholm and continue to design and dream in model and sketch.
Contact me:
Tim Shockey
Address: Liljeholnstorget 84
11761 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 669 2105
E-mail: ktshock@jps.net
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