Floating Stones

By:   Samuel R Sampson, Michael N Read
Imprint:   Oakfield Publishers
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   254g
ISBN:   9798218658274
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   08 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Samuel was born in North Bend, Oregon, USA, on August 25, 1946, and spent many youthful days building model cars, boats, and airplanes and hunting and fishing the incomparable southern Oregon coast. He began formal education in Coos Bay, Oregon, at Marshfield Senior High School, graduating in 1964.As the grandson of a Finnish carpenter and an enthusiastic model builder, Mr. Sampson obtained a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Oregon in 1970. In 1966-67, during his junior year in college, he studied abroad in Vienna, Austria, concentrating on Architectural History while touring many world-famous museums, landmarks, and prominent architecture throughout Europe.Mr. Sampson has been practicing architecture professionally since 1974 and is licensed in Oregon and Washington. He has extensive experience managing architectural design teams for large-scale government and private-sector building projects. In 2000, Samuel initiated a hobby by beginning his independent study of a long-standing architectural interest in Ancient Egypt and the Great Pyramid.Mr. Sampson's firm, Architectural Investigative Reports & Opinions (AIRO-LLC), provides traditional and specialty architectural services, including constructability analyses and comprehensive evaluation and analysis of the condition of existing buildings, site work, and infrastructure. Michael was born in London, England, on January 9, 1940, just after the outbreak of WWII, and survived the London bombing Blitz by sleeping at night in an underground air raid shelter. In 1946, the family moved to Sandhurst, Berkshire, and in 1951, he attended Woodley Hill Grammar School in Earley, near Reading, Berkshire.In 1956, he attended the Royal Aircraft Establishment Technical College, now known as Farnborough College of Technology. He graduated in 1961, attended two more years part-time, and was accepted as a Graduate of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1963.From 1961 to 1963, he worked at several aerospace companies in Bracknell, Berkshire, and was involved with missile guidance systems. In 1966, The Boeing Company recruited him and he moved to Seattle, Washington, where he worked on avionics systems for the 747 airplane. He recently retired as a General Certified Real Estate Appraiser licensed in Washington and Oregon and moved to Salem, Oregon, in 2007, where he currently resides.