v5: You spoke a little about the library of materials. The palette of materials seems very strong throughout the body of your work.  How did you derive that palette and what is on that palette today?

LOH: I think one of the issues I am interested in, since my work comes under the umbrella of Modernism, is the heroic promise of the early modernists. I always felt their work was inspiring in terms of the geometry, the nature of the materials and the idea of an elegant industrialized space. I explore materials in both my painting’s and my Architecture, I am interested in surfaces. In looking at them, my paintings tend to be more about the layering of materials... more of an additive process rather than a deductive one. If acid is poured on my paintings, you begin to see the various layers that exist beyond the surface.  As a result of my interests in surface and layering of materials, I am interested in working with a glass that is made in Scotland called Reglit U-Glass, which has a translucent quality, yet it has an inherent structural characteristics.

v5: Is that the vertical “planks” of glass we see in many of the projects ?

LOH:  Exactly.  For example, as opposed to plate glass, the u-glass is structurally strong enough to make a wall that is 15 feet tall and 15 feet long, with simply glass, no supporting structure.

v5: It is an extraordinary material in your work.

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Bernard Residence. Ink on paper.

Carmen’s European Delicatessen. View to entry.

Carmen’s European Delicatessen. Interior view of sitting area.

Carmen’s European Delicatessen. Interior view .

Delicatessen R&B.  Detail of glass wall.

The on site General Contractor for the Carmen's European Delicatessen was Berni Lopez