I am an architectural and landscape designer working with environmental uncertainty. My practice leverages emerging technology and interdisciplinary research from science studies and queer theory to develop new ground for architectural design. I am based in New York.

I have worked on projects in New York, Paris, and China with offices including MOS Architects, New-Territories/R&Sie(n), and Ken Smith Workshop. Built projects include a garden at the Jardins de Metis (2025), a traveling greenhouse installed at Syracuse University School of Architecture (2025), and a shed for a queer bar in Brooklyn (2023).

I hold a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture with honors from the Pennsylvania State University, and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where I received the Excellence in Design award, a William Kinne Fellowship, and the AIA Allwork Scholarship. I teach architecture and digital media at Syracuse University School of Architecture.

This website indexes some of my work...

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Project index
Garden 3. Peek-a-boo Built work 2025
Garden 2. A dream of a permanent garden Built work 2025
Apparatus 3. nPermanencies tractatus Contributing 2025
Media 2. Thinking digitally Teaching 2025
Housing 2. Even better homes & gardens Teaching 2024
Book 1. Ground conditions Academic 2024
Garden 1. Evening lark Academic 2024
Shed 1. Snake eyes Built work 2023
Apparatus 2. The chamber of memories to come Contributing 2023
Housing 1. Earwig Academic 2021
Apparatus 1. Surveillance scape Built work 2020
Media 1. Multiplicity Contributing 2019