INFORMATION
A globally practicing architect. This is a collection of my work and projects.
I have 10+ years of professional experience designing buildings and spaces, and working at renowned international design firms including Grimshaw Architects, Rockwell Group and Leeser Architecture. Those projects developed with other offices are displayed here as noted. I most recently joined Grimshaw in 2016 to lead the base building design and coordination for the Sustainability Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai.
DOUBLE AGENCY
The Institutional-Public Threshold and Urban Representation
Rice University Master’s Thesis
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The Institutional-Public Threshold and Urban Representation
Rice University Master’s Thesis
This thesis formally defines a diagrammatically transparent judicial system as a method of exploiting architecture’s urban agency. Government and judicial institutions are typically architecturalized as either a semantic reading or a monolithic object. This thesis produces an architectural double agency merging the idea of a public object and public space.
Double agency creates architectural produce in two distinct capacities: creating a new relationship between the public and the courthouse, and the representation of the formal object in the city. This is addressed using the elements of form, organization, and legibility to reconfigure the relationship.
Mies’ courthouse marks a shift in institutional representation from a semantic historical reading to an abstracted slab privileging organization. This thesis proposes a new shift bringing representation back to the table. The relationship between diagram and legibility challenges standard notions of the relationship between public and the courthouse institution, and between architecture and the city.