User:Callamachus

I am an architectural designer and former adjunct professor of hand drafting. Vitruvius recommends that an architect should be well versed in both theory and practice, and I take this point of view very serious. In practice I am a draftsman, designer, and project manager. In education I teach architectural drawing. In theory I delve into everything that is as far from the practical, sane, and healthy as I possibly can. Most of my research is dedicated to visionary-theoretical architecture (e.g. Etienne-Louis Boullee, Claude Nicholas Ledoux, Jean-Jacques Lequeu, Douglas Darden, et al.), esoterica and occult sciences (e.g. alchemy, Doctor Faustus, Hermeticism, Freemasonry, et cetera), and simply bizarre and strange individuals (e.g. Antonin Artaud, the Marquis de Sade, Hunter S. Thompson, Gilles de Rais, Friedrich Nietzsche, et cetera). The diametrics of my unorthodox studies and my very down-to-earth practice I have always felt keeps the former grounded by the latter, and the latter invigorated by the former.

Articles Created

• Giovanni Mercurio da Correggio—An Italian Renaissance itinerant apocalyptic preacher, claiming to be the most perfect incarnation of Christ.
• Douglas Darden—An American visionary-theoretical architectural designer, artist, and writer.
• Nevadaville Masonic Temple—A functioning Masonic lodge building in the ghost town of Nevadaville, Colorado.
• Abbé Larudan—An anonymous French, Anti-Masonic writer.
• Bart Prince—American architect of the "organic" style.
• Margaret (album)—An album by Jason Webley and Friends about Margaret Rucker.
• Eliza Rickman—An American indie singer-songwriter.
• Lawrence N. Greenleaf—An American Freemason and Grand Master, early Colorado pioneer, business, poet, and jokester.