About
Motivated by 1๏ธโฃ the age-old human impulse to build ๐๏ธ a better world ๐ and 2๏ธโฃ a love for writing โ๏ธ, teaching ๐, pondering ๐, critiquing ๐ง, sharing ๐งโ๐พ, yearning ๐ผ, and imagining ๐ฎ.
Currently: M.Arch I candidate ๐ and assistant instructor ๐งโ๐ซ at Princeton University School of Architecture.
Previously: Worked in Los Angeles ๐ด architecture firms as a fabricator ๐งโ๐ญ, animator ๐งโ๐ป, designer ๐งโ๐จ, CAD monkey ๐งโ๐ง, & biz dev coordinator ๐งโ๐ผ.
Projects
Just some rings
Formal studies involving orthogonal and viscous forms. An attempt to introduce gravity into a formal language.
MUB combines retail, commercial office space, residential units, and a theater, building upon the legacy of the Soviet avant-garde's notion of architecture as a "social condenser," a sum greater than its parts where intersecting diverse programs can influence the evolutionary direction of one's society. MUB draws on skip-stop housing strategies developed in the 1920s by Constructivist architects of the OSA known as the Stroikom Units. In particular, this project draws on the lessons of the K-Type, which provided space for a kitchen and play room, and the F-Type, which lacked these amenities with the assumption that communal daycares and kitchens could remove the need for such space-wasting functions.
Side Projects
Societyiftextwall is an instagram account I started in 2021 as a creative outlet for some ideas I had at the time around the need to rehabilitate the pejorative association with utopia. The project combines theory and meme culture to create a high frequency pitch for a neo Luddite utopian politics.