The poet and novelist, James Dickey is said to have defined a writer as someone who is enormously taken by things that anyone else would walk by. We feel that this definition should apply to good architects. Often a solution to a design problem is right under your nose. More often it is an assembly of elements drawn from thousands of images and thoughts that an architect has stored away from traveling and everyday experience. As Maine Architects, we take special cues from natural landscapes and settings.

In this notebook, we would like to share with you some discoveries that have inspired us.