I am a designer and M.Arch II candidate at the Yale School of Architecture, working between building, research, and installation.
Before Yale I spent several years as an architectural designer at El Dorado Architects, on a team whose work centered on community resource and public projects. My primary project was Parrott Creek Center, a facility for young boys who are on track to enter the juvenile system and are instead offered an alternative path through therapy and schooling.
My thesis, Death Reconstructed, follows from the same interest. It examines how American cities have architecturally and institutionally removed death from ordinary life, pushing burial to the municipal edge and dying behind clinical walls, and asks what it would mean to return those functions to the everyday fabric of a city. Working in Manhattan, I propose interventions at small scale: memorial alcoves, columbariums, and composting cooperatives.
Alongside the thesis, I am a fellow at CCAM, Yale's Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, where my focus is interactive installation. My recent piece, Shrimp Vision, is built around the visual perception of the mantis shrimp and the gap between what an animal sees and what a body can be made to register.
Installation is where I test ideas that a building cannot hold still long enough to prove. The work is hands on. I 3D print, wire electronics, drive servo motors, and build custom camera rigs, and I care about the point where a drawing becomes a physical thing that either works or does not.
That instinct comes out of a background in fine arts, which I brought with me to architecture school at the University of Oregon and have never really set down. Film photography, graphic design, and product design all still inform how I work: attention to material, to sequence, and to the way someone actually encounters a thing.
What connects the practice, the thesis, and the installations is a belief that design and construction are one conversation, and that the spaces worth making are the ones that take human need seriously enough to build.