{"id":250,"date":"2019-04-07T21:34:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T04:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2019-04-21T06:57:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T13:57:03","slug":"david-s-adriaanse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/?page_id=250","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4019-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-495\" width=\"295\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4019-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4019-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4019-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_4019.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>First and foremost, I&#8217;m a father of two boys &#8211; 3 and 5 years old. They&#8217;re a handful, and while there&#8217;s no lack of activity in our daily lives, I absolutely love being a dad. Together with my wife of 10 years, we live in a modest home about 15 miles north of downtown Tucson, in a town by the name of Marana (Dove Mountain area). We enjoy camping a lot &#8211; we try to venture out with our pop-up camper to get out of the desert heat every couple of months; many people wonder why we camp with small kids, but really &#8211; they&#8217;re easier outside than inside! I&#8217;d highly recommend it, our boys have been avid outdoorsmen since they&#8217;ve been about 3 months old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professionally, I&#8217;m a registered&nbsp;architect specializing in the design of telescope observatories, including support&nbsp;facilities and rotating enclosures. The&nbsp;current main projects that I&#8217;m involved with&nbsp;include two of the world&#8217;s three next generation extremely large telescopes &#8211; the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tmt.org\/\">Thirty Meter Telescope<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gmto.org\/\">Giant Magellan Telescope<\/a>, although I continue to work on a number&nbsp;of smaller facilities located throughout Chile, Hawaii, Arizona, South Africa, and Australia as well. I enjoy the unique technical and practical challenges observatory facilities and telescope enclosures bring &#8211; there&#8217;s rarely a textbook challenge on these projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Top_view_of_tmt_complex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Top_view_of_tmt_complex.jpg?fit=1024%2C575\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Top_view_of_tmt_complex.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Top_view_of_tmt_complex-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Top_view_of_tmt_complex-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Top_view_of_tmt_complex-1024x575.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Thirty Meter Telescope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GMT-Desktop-Wallpaper-no-cal-2018_06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GMT-Desktop-Wallpaper-no-cal-2018_06.jpg?fit=1024%2C576\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-602\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GMT-Desktop-Wallpaper-no-cal-2018_06.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GMT-Desktop-Wallpaper-no-cal-2018_06-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GMT-Desktop-Wallpaper-no-cal-2018_06-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GMT-Desktop-Wallpaper-no-cal-2018_06-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Giant Magellan Telescope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First and foremost, I&#8217;m a father of two boys &#8211; 3 and 5 years old. They&#8217;re a handful, and while there&#8217;s no lack of activity in our daily lives, I absolutely love being a dad. Together with my wife of 10 years, we live in a modest home about 15 miles north of downtown Tucson,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/?page_id=250\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Poyh1-42","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidadriaanse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}