Jonathan J. McKim, Architect and High-rise Facade Inspector is a sole proprietor architect and theorist. Along with his AI copilot, Vitruvius, Jonathan aims to develop a new architectural language that allows for total integration of architecture, engineering systems, and landscape/site context into one cohesive design. Influenced and inspired by a James Wine (SITE) lecture that he attended in the early 1990s, Jonathan has long sought to blur the lines between landscape and building, and feels that given the right conditions, a work of architecture shouldn’t make a distinction between the two. To this end, he is stanchly critical of his fellow architects who treat their buildings as jeweled sculptural objects to be plop down onto a site without any consideration of context.

Image: LGBTQ+ History Museum proposal, San Francisco, CA.