Not only do I spend time on the site, walking it, noticing its subtle cues, discovering my favorite aspects of it, but I also want to know how my client feels about the site. Q: Wouldn’t you say the site has its own muse?Ī: We call it the sitegeist (“spirit of the site”) in architect lingo. However, when someone seeks out an architect, it is usually because they do have ideas and aesthetic needs but know they need someone who can translate them into a functional, technically sound, and meaningful built form. After all, clients have their muses, too, though not everyone may term it as such. Understanding who they are as people is important: how they like to interact with spaces, what their aesthetic leanings may be, what influences have made them who they are, and what has brought them to Maine and to my office. I like to spend a lot of time with my clients before I even allow the muse to come to the table.
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Q: How do you balance your own inspiration as an architect with your clients’ vision?Ī: Like every artist, every architect has what I like to call an “inner muse.” Though our muses are rarely elevated to mythological proportions, part of the maturing of an architect is to know how to listen to the inner workings of one’s passion and then, more important, bring this to the table together with your client and their needs, the site, and the many other parameters that come into play in this very complex dance. How would she know what to design, how to design? Now, twenty-five years later, a different set of questions informs her work: “Can I channel this stream of inspiration into a singular coherent design, and (more difficult) how can I synchronize this vision with the budget and program of my client?” Stevens-Rosa shares her musings with MH+D. What inspires an architect to design? What makes his or her work unique and sought after? What is it about creating that yields inspiration, and vice versa? These are the questions that Kay Stevens-Rosa of A4 Architects in Bar Harbor once worried about as a young architecture student. She’s a rising star in musical theater, television and film and will continue to grace any stage where she can let her creativity ride.Edited by Rebecca Falzano | Photography Trent BellĪrchitect Kay Stevens-Rosa on inspiration Maine Anders evokes the type of naughty but cheeky glamour in her burlesque, stage and film performances that garner the well deserved comparison to the extraordinary greats Josephine Baker and Lucille Ball. Most recently she was a featured dancer for the 2015 Grammy Award Winner Cheek To Cheek PBS Special with Lada Gaga and Tony Bennett and the popular downtown burlesque murder mystery, “Lady L’ Amour’s Final Bow”. She was scouted as a featured burlesque performer for an episode on a season of Royal Pains (USA Network). Her role in “Million In The Mirror”, a PSA for breast cancer research, recently won The Viewers Choice Award on the Lifetime Channel. Known for playing herself in Dee Rees’ highly anticipated “Pariah” (Focus Features’), Maine has also played leading roles in indie features: “Miente” (Cannes, Havana Film Festival), comedy-horor sensation “Nefertitty”, “Nefertitty In Space”, “Nefetitty TV”, Lower East Side coming-of-age drama, “My Normal” and comedy-thriller, The Horror At Gallery Kay”. Her ability to transform herself into a myriad of characters gives her the opportunity to play roles that are left of center, and fuse the elements of sex, comedy and drama effortlessly, as seen in her self-conceptualized debut, The Last Day Of Black History Month: A Conversation With A Naked Southern Black Lesbian. A muse for numerous visual artists, she has collaborated with conceptual photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier and acclaimed multimedia extraordinaire, Matthew Barney, the infamous DJ Tiesto and performed for exclusive fashion events hosted by icons Patricia Field and Marc Jacobs.
Her tenacious spirit has helped her become one of New York's most celebrated burlesque performers. Since then, she has performed alongside a number of greats including legends James Brown and Lionel Richie, pop sensations Jessica Simpson and Pharrell Williams, and burlesque divas Dita Von Tease and Amanda Lepore making The Maine Attraction a legend in her own right.
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Maine, known on stage as “The Maine Attraction”, landed her first professional dance job as a teenager for MTV's Fight For Your Rights Campaign.
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