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Work Experience




Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ 

Jun 2023 – Sept 2023
Research Designer, Assistant Prof. Cameron Wu
Designer / Fabricator – Geo_Bench 01
Co-Editor / Graphic Designer ­- Lines of Development


Agrest & Gandelsonas: CCA Archive, Princeton University 

June 2023 – Sept 2023

Model/Archive Reconstruction

Tasked with rebuilding, fixing, and prepping models and drawings for Mario Gandelsonas. Models and drawings are going to be part of permanent collection at the CCA.


Living Histories: Space for Reckoning, Princeton University

Spring 2023

Exhibition Fabricator & Assistant

Installed and hung various frames to showcase exhibition material. Also, guided fellow students on how to design, fabricate and install other items for the exhibit.


Computational Fabrication Shop, Princeton University, School of Architecture

Sep 2020 – May 2023

Specialist Shop Monitor

Aided students with 3D modeling, fabrication, and other various tasks


Biennale Architettura 2021, Venice, Italy

Sep 2020 – Jan 2020

Exhibition Fabrication Assistant, for Daniel López-Pérez & Reiser + Umemoto

As a shop SOA shop specialist, I was asked to work on “Geoscope 2” by Daniel López-Pérez & Reiser + Umemoto. I prepped, painted, sanded and fabricated parts of the shell.


Geoffrey Goldberg + Associates, Chicago, IL. 

Sep 2019 – Aug 2020

Digital Blueprint Translator / Designer

Recreated two engines, as 3D models, from incomplete Lancia Corporation blueprints. One of an aero type and one auto of unknown origin. Work and research is exhibited in a publication titled Lancia and De Virgilio, At the Center, which won several awards, including the Society of Automotive Historians’ Cugnot Award for the best book of the year.


University of IL at Chicago School of Architecture & Design, Chicago, IL.

Sep 2018 – Aug 2020

Student Program Coordinator

Coordinated inquiries from students, faculty, staff, and the general public. Oversaw internal student programs, maintained the school’s database, and followed up on work-orders.



Academic Experience




Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ

Jun 2021 – May 2023

Research Assistant, Assistant Prof. Cameron Wu

Co-Editor / Graphic Designer ­- Lines of Development
Assistant Designer / Fabricator – “Circumvolute_00”
Restorer / Documentor – “Magnetic Z”


Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ

Feb 2021 - May 2023

Assistant in Instruction

EGR 201/351 (Makerspace) - Fall 2021 – Fall 2022, Civil and Environmental Engineering
ARC 547 (Design Seminar) - Fall 2021, Architecture
URB 201 (Research Seminar) – Spring 2021, Architecture
ARC 502 (Studio) – Spring 2023, Architecture


University of IL at Chicago School of Architecture & Design, Chicago, IL.

Feb 2021 – May 2021

Adjunct Instructor

3rd year undergraduate Portfolio Workshop Coordinator w/ Antonio Torres



University of IL at Chicago School of Architecture & Design, Chicago, IL.

May 2020 – Aug 2020

Adjunct Instructor

Hi-arch Summer Program w/ Antonio Torres
https://arch.uic.edu/hiarch


University of IL at Chicago School of Architecture & Design, Chicago, IL. 
Jan – April 2018
Garofalo Fellowship Research Participant 
Dysfunctional Plans – Fosco Lucarelli (SOCKS)
https://arch.uic.edu/events/garofalo-fellow-exhibition-opening
Aided in research and designed a model for the exhibition. Archived the resulting work. 


University of IL at Chicago School of Architecture & Design, Chicago, IL. 
Jan – April 2017
Garofalo Fellowship Research Participant 
Universals V Ambiguity – Espen Vatn (studiovatn)
Aided in research and designed a model for the exhibition. Archived the resulting work.



Awards & Recognition




Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ. 
Spring 2023
Award Recipient – Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize Thesis Prize 
“Get In-Line” – Thesis Project w/ Julian Gonzalez



Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ. 
Spring 2023
Award Recipient – M. Arch Professional Thesis Grant
“Get In-Line” – Thesis Project w/ Julian Gonzalez




Keller Center School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Princeton, NJ. 
Fall 2022- Spring 2023
Award Recipient - Norman D. Kurtz '58 Fund for Innovation in Engineering Education “Developable Surface Fabrication and Construction”
Structured as an independent study Julian Gonzalez and I focused on techniques of descriptive surface geometries as an instigator for architectural investigation. Our research aims to produce effective techniques via descriptive geometry that are versatile and amenable to all scales of architecture.



Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ. 
Fall 2020
Graduate Fellowship



Exhibitions




MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy.
Oct 2022 – April 2023
Exhibited Work – “In Bound” w/ Julian Gonzalez
“Technoscape”
https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/technoscape-larchitettura-dellingegneria/
Paul Lewis of LTL Architects used “In-bound” my studio project as part of their exhibition.


Gallery Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ. 
Oct 2022 – Jan 2023
Exhibited Research - ARC560a Building and Embodied Carbon
“Biogenic House Sections”
https://soa.princeton.edu/#3271
An exhibition by LTL Architects for their publication Manual of Biogenic House Sections. This exhibition, and the work in the book, credited the research from the research seminar I was a part of.


Foundation Building Gallery Cooper Union, New York, NY. 
Oct 2022 – Dec 2022
Assistant Designer / Fabricator
Model Behavior Exhibition - curated by Cynthia Davidson
“Circumvolute 00” – Cameron Wu



ART OMI, Ghent, NY. 
July 2021 – Sep 2021
Refinisher / Documenter
“Magnetic Z” – Cameron Wu
https://artomi.org/exhibitions/cameron-wu-magnetic-z
While working with Cameron Wu as a research assistant, I had the opportunity to repair, alter, and document his recently installed pavilion, “Magnetic Z,” at Art Omi.



Authored Edited Publications




Awaiting Publication 
Summer 2023
Author – Essay
(S)ymbolic Projection: The Contested Symmetries of Language and Form


Lines of Development: Architectures of Developable and Ruled Surfaces
Summer/Fall 2023
Co-editor / Graphic Designer
Publication forthcoming with ACTAR (under contract). Formal analyses of historical and contemporary precedents, combinatory geometric techniques, and design projects.


Fresh Meat Journal
Jan 2017 – Sept 2019
Assistant Editor - FMIX “Fake Fiction” & FMX “Towards a Familiar Architecture” http://www.freshmeatjournal.com/home
The compendium of architectural fictions, judgments, and opinions – is a forum of freshness in architecture. FM is an independent journal published by students at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.


Visionary Cities: Learning from Mexico City 
December 2017
Author – Essay
City of Boundaries: Urban Islands and Their Formal Identities
Observations and research that looked at the types of boundaries in Mexico City. Research provided contextual information for a design studio.
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