Portrait of a GFFer: Ryan Wilson
Ryan joined GFF nearly one year ago and is a member of GFF Planning. In reading Ryan’s fun facts, it is clear that he stays busy both both inside and outside the office! If you’ve never heard of a quadcopter, ask this hard working guy. From Frank Gehry to 1966 Mustangs, mountain climbing to baking he has a broad range of interests and surely can provide interesting conversation!
- I have spent half my life in Kansas and Colorado. I was born in Kansas, but I prefer to say I from Colorado for reasons I think are implicit.
- In the summer I enjoy hiking 14ers: mountains over 14,000 feet, and I have climbed 17 of them to date.
- I studied abroad in London at the Architecture Association.
- I am legally blind in my left eye.
- My favorite book is Ender’s Game and the author who has made the most impact on me is Jane Jacobs who wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
- A few friends and I have just bought a quadcopter which I am excited to build, fly, and potentially make epic movies.
- I still live like a college student. I sublet a room from a lady I met on Craigslist and do not have regular access to the kitchen. I take advantage of the walkable landscape, something that I advocate. That and the cheap rent.
- In my free time I am learning to ballroom dance. I also enjoy meeting up with friends once a week to cook random meals and drink wine.
- I have been restoring a 1966 Mustang for nearly a decade. Maybe one day I will be able to drive it down.
- I have known that I wanted to be an architect ever since seventh grade when my English teacher had us do a writing assignment on an architect. By chance, I picked Frank Gehry and have been hooked ever since; however, if I fail at being an architect I want to a baker so I can be surrounded by the smell of bread and be responsible for making people happy.