About
Motivated by 1️⃣ the age-old human impulse to build 🏗️ a better world 🌎 and 2️⃣ a love for writing ✍️, teaching 🍎, pondering 🌞, critiquing 🔧, sharing 🧑🌾, yearning 👼, and imagining 🔮.
Currently: M.Arch I candidate 🎓 and assistant instructor 🧑🏫 at Princeton University School of Architecture.
Previously: Worked in Los Angeles 🌴 architecture firms as a fabricator 🧑🏭, animator 🧑💻, designer 🧑🎨, CAD monkey 🧑🔧, & biz dev coordinator 🧑💼.
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.