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Profile

ARCHITECT
PRACTICE LEAD
STUDIO INSTRUCTOR

My work is driven by a close reading of site and context, treating landscape, climate, and material as generative drivers in the development of form. Rather than imposing architecture onto a place, I focus on establishing systems that allow projects to emerge from the specific conditions that already exist.

Early research and conceptual studies are central to this process. Through exaggeration and distillation, these studies identify and clarify underlying conditions—helping to reveal what is already present and align clients and collaborators around a shared understanding of value, direction, and intent.

This work is guided by a structured approach that moves from observation and information toward insight and resolution, allowing projects to develop with clarity from concept through construction. Ideas are tested through drawing, fabrication, and building, where design is continuously shaped through making.

Raised in Florida and Texas, resourcefulness and rigor were early instilled traits. I spent time moving between the two along the Gulf, looking out at the open horizon over the water. Architectural training in the prairie metropolis of Chicago, beginning practice within the split conditions of Seattle’s city and hinterland, and working within the restraint of the desert in Tucson have each shaped how I read landscape and place. Time spent deeply exploring remote environments continues to inform my perspective, practice, and appreciation of our world.

I established an independent practice in 2022, developing residential and small-scale work across the Western United States. In parallel, I teach design studios at the University of Arizona, focusing on the relationship between conceptual thinking, material systems, and technical execution.
Across these efforts, my work is guided by clarity—linking concept, material, and construction into a continuous process that produces architecture rooted in place, making a lot out of a little.

7 Sectors of experience

11 Years of experience as a lead project designer, project manager, project architect + technical architect

1,261,760 SFSignificant contribution
to built projects

3,065,000 SF Significant contribution
to a total of projects

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Certifications

American Institute of Architects

National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, Former Member

Registered Architect, Arizona (2023-Current)

Registered Architect, Washington (2019-Current)

Registered Architect, Idaho (2022-2025)

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Press

‘Arizona Illustrated’, Project Feature,
PBS
2025

‘Celebrating the Natural World’, Interview, CAPLA
2024

‘Announcing Transcend Your Senses’, by Tucson Symphony Orchestra
2024

‘Great Divide Route Landscapes’, Bikepacking Magazine
2017

‘MCHAP Roundtable’, Discussion
2015

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Exhibitions

Momento Cósmico,
MSA Annex, Tucson
2024

United by Art,
Mexican Consulate, Tucson
2024

Seattle Design Festival,
Lake Union Park, Seattle
2019, 2017

AIA Emerging Professionals Exhibit,
National, Washington D.C.
2018

Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Exhibit
Crown Hall, Chicago
2015

IIT SOA Showcase
Crown Hall, Chicago
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010

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Awards

Tucson American Advertising, Installation Award - Gold
2025

Louis Vuitton Spark Award, Nominee + Shortlist
2015

Danforth Award, Winner
2014, 2012

Horowitz Award, Nominee
2014, 2012

Peterhans Visual Training Award, Nominee
2014, 2012

Tennyson Award, Honorable Mention
2010

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Lectures

University of Arizona,
School of Architecture

Making Meaning
Beauty
Diagrams
Creative Research
Precision
Adaptive Reuse
Deployable Architecture
Life Safety
Structures

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Education

Illinois Institute of Technology, 2010-2015
Bachelor of Architecture

Florida State University, 2008-2010
Interior Design Major, Art History Minor, Urban & Regional Planning Master’s Certificate Program

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