User:Darrell Allen Caraway

Darrell Allen Caraway (born September 10, 1959 in Glendora, California) is the second of two children born to Joyce Wade and Ronald A. Caraway and is the nephew of Janet Jones and Steven D. Parry. He is an Architect in California and lives with his wife Kathryn Caraway in Avondale Arizona where he also serves on the Arts Commission for the City of Avondale. Small Text Began drawing in third grade, using pencil only for nearly twelve years before adding mediums to work with such as color pencil, water color, ink, eventually using oils in painting. Calligraphy and Automotive design was emphasized in early work. Studied Architecture and wood working during formative years with early instructors. Earned winning title in national car design competition where he designed a Piano Car which was eventually built and is on the Show Circuit. Spend time distance bicycling and won race on bike later in High School, otherwise athletics were not a source of success, aside from Frisbee. Started flying as a child and soloed in a Cessna 150 at youngest possible age at Lebanon Oregon where he also worked as a gas boy at fifteen and a half on Aviation day, his father being his instructor. Placed first in a regional skills contest by Linn Benton Community College but turned down an offer to go to work for Hewlett Packard. Worked during High School part time at a paper plant making revisions with engineer. He built a car and won a Soap Box Derby in Eugene in 1971, but went out in first round in Akron, the family having a United States tour at that time seeing the East Coast and major attractions by car, together. Instead he began his internship and a move returning to native California with Architects which would take thirteen years, finally passing the Board in 1991. Achieved winner status in sailing single handed in the San Francisco Bay and also crewed on many racing boats, and cruised and taught sailing for five years at Cal Sailing Club in Berkeley, and at Oakland Yacht Club. He participated as crew on Folk Boats for the Internationals in 2005 at Saint Francis Yacht Club, one race coming in first place against twenty three others. The first house he designed was for his father. He also built his own economical house in Victorville and added to that house before selling and relocating to North Beach after a divorce. That marriage produced a son Aaron Allen Caraway who has since given him a grandson Tobias Allen Caraway with Brady dePaul, who came fro Florida. Since marrying Kathryn (Stevenson) Bray in 1998 has gained notoriety as an advanced design star and has worked alone and with other architects in a prolific career where nearly five hundred buildings have been produced, over one hundred and fifty by him alone. He joined the Taliesin Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in 2006, and lives between the house in Avondale, Arizona and a yacht studio in Emery Cove Marina in Emeryville, California.