As a designer and educator, I am engaged in interdisciplinary practice that operates between architecture, landscape, and urban scale infrastructure. My work argues that it is necessary to discuss not only the technical performance of infrastructure, but how the appearance of infrastructure can be designed to make legible the constraints, contexts, and multivalent opportunities of that performance. An important part of my design process includes examining precedent to speculate on new potentials for infrastructures. More precisely, my area of scholarly focus is at the intersection of water infrastructure and architectural design in the city. I have explored this interest in my design work, both with ASDF, the award-winning practice I co-founded with my partner David Shanks, as well as independently. I have investigated the agency of architectural design to shape water infrastructure in my independent research such as “Acqua Urbana”, the research proposal for which I was awarded the Eidlitz Traveling Fellowship through Cornell University, and for which I was also named Honorable Mention for the Steedman Fellowship through Washington University in St. Louis.
