about |
I am a Designer and Assistant Manager at LEVENBETTS, NYC, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute GAUD.
I graduated withDistinction from the Pratt Institute GAUD MArch program in summer ‘21, and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal for best graduating student.
My enquiries, interspersed through my design work and my theoretical writing, follow on two themes:
Design as discovery | to me the best design reveals qualities already present. In this light, design can be seen as the practice of discerning, uncovering and accentuating qualities already present in the world around us.
Architecture as an instrument | my work explores productive relation and interactions between architecture and its surroundings. For me, architecture is the production of form through the interaction of existing qualities of nature. Just as architecture itself continually produces form through its interactions with us humans and with its surroundings.
I am a Designer and Assistant Manager at LEVENBETTS, NYC, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute GAUD.
I graduated withDistinction from the Pratt Institute GAUD MArch program in summer ‘21, and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal for best graduating student.
My enquiries, interspersed through my design work and my theoretical writing, follow on two themes:
Design as discovery | to me the best design reveals qualities already present. In this light, design can be seen as the practice of discerning, uncovering and accentuating qualities already present in the world around us.
Architecture as an instrument | my work explores productive relation and interactions between architecture and its surroundings. For me, architecture is the production of form through the interaction of existing qualities of nature. Just as architecture itself continually produces form through its interactions with us humans and with its surroundings.
education | honors | awards |
Awarded the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Henry Adams Medal for the top graduating GAUD Student of 2021
M.Arch Distinction | The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (2018-2021) | GPA 3.95
Shortlisted | BeeBreeders Iceland Cave Tower international competition (March 2021)
Finalist | Non Architecture ‘Reviving Mines’ international competition (December 2020)
Honorable mention, Pratt Institute School of Architecture Climate Crises Prize 2021 (May 2021)
Honorable Mention, Pratt Institute School of Architecture Post-Anthropocene Prize (May 2021)
Nominated by The Pratt Institute GAUD Dean David Erdman for the 2020 Center for Architecture Design Scholarship (March 2020)
Selected in every semester by faculty and fellow students to present my own or my studio’s work at Pratt GAUD ‘critic-at-large’ events, including for Thom Mayne, Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, and Neil Denari (2018-2021)
First prize for best first semester M.Arch portfolio | The Pratt Institute GAUD (December 2018)
Awarded the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Henry Adams Medal for the top graduating GAUD Student of 2021
M.Arch Distinction | The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (2018-2021) | GPA 3.95
Shortlisted | BeeBreeders Iceland Cave Tower international competition (March 2021)
Finalist | Non Architecture ‘Reviving Mines’ international competition (December 2020)
Honorable mention, Pratt Institute School of Architecture Climate Crises Prize 2021 (May 2021)
Honorable Mention, Pratt Institute School of Architecture Post-Anthropocene Prize (May 2021)
Nominated by The Pratt Institute GAUD Dean David Erdman for the 2020 Center for Architecture Design Scholarship (March 2020)
Selected in every semester by faculty and fellow students to present my own or my studio’s work at Pratt GAUD ‘critic-at-large’ events, including for Thom Mayne, Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, and Neil Denari (2018-2021)
First prize for best first semester M.Arch portfolio | The Pratt Institute GAUD (December 2018)
architecture practice |
Designer and Assistant Manager | LEVENBETTS, New York City (current)
Designer | Young Projects
Brooklyn, New York (October 2021 to January 2023)
Collaborator | Young & Ayata
Brooklyn, New York (June-August 2020)
Architecture Intern | Studio Libeskind, New York (June-August 2019)
architecture teaching |
Visiting Assistant Professor | Pratt GAUD | Spring ‘24 Arch 713 Architectural Mediums 3 Fabrication Section |
Fall ‘23 Arch 703 Design 3 Co-Teacher |
Spring ‘23 Arch 602 Design 2 Co-Teacher
Co-teacher, Cornell AAP | Fall ‘22 Option Design Studio with Bryan Young
Teaching Fellow, Thom Mayne Young Architects Program | Pratt Institute | (January-May 2020)
Teaching Assistant, Architecture | Pratt Institute Design Initiative for Community Empowerment | Architecture (September 2019 - May 2020)
architecture software |
AutoCAD, Vectorworks
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Lightroom, After Effects
Rhino, Revit, Vray, Keyshot, Grasshopper
Recap, Substance Painter, ZBrush, Slicerforfusion360.
All MS Office and G Suite applications, advanced Excel modelling
Designer and Assistant Manager | LEVENBETTS, New York City (current)
Designer | Young Projects
Brooklyn, New York (October 2021 to January 2023)
Collaborator | Young & Ayata
Brooklyn, New York (June-August 2020)
Architecture Intern | Studio Libeskind, New York (June-August 2019)
architecture teaching |
Visiting Assistant Professor | Pratt GAUD | Spring ‘24 Arch 713 Architectural Mediums 3 Fabrication Section |
Fall ‘23 Arch 703 Design 3 Co-Teacher |
Spring ‘23 Arch 602 Design 2 Co-Teacher
Co-teacher, Cornell AAP | Fall ‘22 Option Design Studio with Bryan Young
Teaching Fellow, Thom Mayne Young Architects Program | Pratt Institute | (January-May 2020)
Teaching Assistant, Architecture | Pratt Institute Design Initiative for Community Empowerment | Architecture (September 2019 - May 2020)
architecture software |
AutoCAD, Vectorworks
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Lightroom, After Effects
Rhino, Revit, Vray, Keyshot, Grasshopper
Recap, Substance Painter, ZBrush, Slicerforfusion360.
All MS Office and G Suite applications, advanced Excel modelling
other professional experience |
12-years in economic policy and analysis, during which I led policy analysis and consulting projects, managed small teams, pitched for client work and delivered and directed consulting projects.
Founder and Director | RDF Economic Consultin, Geneva, Switzerland (2016-2018)
Senior Managing Consultant | ICF International, London, UK 2015-2016
Senior Economist | UK Government Economic Servic, London, UK 2010-2013
Assistant Manager | Deloitte Economic Consultin, London, UK 2008-2010
Economist | UK Government Economic Service, London, UK 2006-2008
other education |
M.A. (Hons) Economics, 2002-2006, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
languages |
English - Native
French - DELF B2 (professional working proficiency)
Italian - Basic conversational
12-years in economic policy and analysis, during which I led policy analysis and consulting projects, managed small teams, pitched for client work and delivered and directed consulting projects.
Founder and Director | RDF Economic Consultin, Geneva, Switzerland (2016-2018)
Senior Managing Consultant | ICF International, London, UK 2015-2016
Senior Economist | UK Government Economic Servic, London, UK 2010-2013
Assistant Manager | Deloitte Economic Consultin, London, UK 2008-2010
Economist | UK Government Economic Service, London, UK 2006-2008
other education |
M.A. (Hons) Economics, 2002-2006, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
languages |
English - Native
French - DELF B2 (professional working proficiency)
Italian - Basic conversational