This is Not a Playhouse – Life of an Architect Playhouse Competition – March/April 2017 This is Not a Playhouse seeks to strip away the traditional formal and stylistic trappings of children’s playhouses, leaving children’s imaginations to run wild. Recalling Magritte’s The Treachery […]
Projects
Academic and Professional Projects
Praiseworthy Competition with One’s Ancestors – Columbus, Indiana Architecture Depository
Praiseworthy Competition with One’s Ancestors – DSGN5200 – Thesis · 2011-2012 · Advisors: Scott Ruff, Kentaro Tsubaki, RA, Elizabeth Burns Gamard · Outstanding Thesis Award 2012 Twentieth-century philosophy was driven by either/or: Modernism with the abstract and pragmatic, Postmodernism with […]
The Story of Building – Sverre Fehn’s Museums
The Story of Building: Sverre Fehn’s Museums – 2011 John William Lawrence Research Fellowship · Summer 2011 · Research, Lecture and Published Book: Click here to Purchase The museums of Sverre Fehn tell a story. A story of building, place […]
Le Petit Cabine – New Orleans Passive House (New Orleans, LA)
Le Petit Cabine – Design By Many Competition · April 2011 · With Michael Crosby, RA The Design by Many Competition tasked entrants to take Passive House standards more suited for colder climates and adapt them to the Hot and Humid climate […]
Rethinking Histories – The Orleans Avenue Canal (New Orleans, LA)
Rethinking Histories – DSGN5100 (with Drew Mazur) – Advanced Studio Elective · Fall Semester 2011 · Professor John Klingman, RA · 16 weeks Given a historically rich site at the beginning of the Orleans Avenue outfall canal, histories of site […]
Segregation (Both/And) Intergration – The Louisiana Civil Rights Institute (New Orleans, LA)
Segregation (Both/And) Integration – DSGN3200 – Integrated Design Studio · Spring Semester 2010 · Professor Doug Harmon · 16 weeks Segregation (Both/And) Integration explores the both/and condition of dualities versus the traditional either/or. A bridging gallery and unifying Cor-ten steel […]
Collisions of Duality – A New Dance School for the Moulin Rouge (Paris, France)
Collisions of Duality – DSGN3100 – Architecture Design Studio · Fall Semester 2009 · Professor Kentaro Tsubaki, RA · 12 weeks Collisions of Duality explore the notion of collisions inherent in the urban fabric of Paris, France and how those […]
Shifted Realities – A (new) New Orleans Typology (New Orleans, LA)
Shifted Realities – DSGN4300 – Europe Study Abroad Studio · Summer Semester 2010 · Professors Byron Mouton, AIA & Cordula Roser-Gray, RA · 4 Weeks Shifted Realities – A (new) New Orleans Typology deals with the various shifts that need […]
Permanent Ephemera – Outdoor Classroom at Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
Permanent Ephemera – Tulane School of Architecture Design Competition · Fall Semester 2010 · Honorable Mention · 1 week Simultaneously both destination and fleeting moment along an implied path, a new classroom/project space creates a new destination within the background […]