Education

Yale School of Architecture
Master of Environmental Design. 2011

Tulane University School of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture & Master of Architecture. 2004

ADVSCOPY, Philadelphia, PA
Founding Principal. 2019–
ADVSCOPY is a specialized copywriting agency that works with architecture, design, and real estate professionals. With sharp writing supported by disciplinary knowledge and a strategic sensibility, we help firms of all sizes communicate their ideas to strengthen their practice and connect with new clients.

Robert A.M. Stern Architects, New York City, NY
Writer. 2013–2016
Responsibilities: work directly with founding partner Robert A.M. Stern to develop books, speeches, exhibitions, lectures, and essays.

Smithsonian magazine, Washington DC
Writer. 2012–2015
Responsibilities: writer of “Design Decoded,” a weekly column for Smithsonian’s website that revealed the unknown histories of everyday objects. The aim of the column was to introduce architecture and design issues to a general audience in an informative and entertaining way.

Mark Horton Architecture, San Francisco CA
Architectural Designer / Project Manager.  2006–2009

Wayne Troyer Architect, New Orleans LA
Architectural Designer / Project Manager.  2004–2005

Research Associate
Yale University. 2011–2013

Teaching Fellow and Course Organizer, “Space, Crime, and Architecture”
Yale School of Architecture. Spring 2011

Co-coordinator, Fugitive Geographies Symposium.
Yale School of Architecture. Spring 2011

Responsibilities: As co-coordinator of this symposium, I selected and invited a multidisciplinary group of scholars to explain complex urban and architectural ideas through film, novels, technology, and popular music. I also lead the accompanying research colloquium, which challenged students to integrate design and narrative.

Teaching Assistant to Dean Robert A.M. Stern, "Parallels of the Modern"
Yale School of Architecture. Fall 2010

TA to Stanislaus von Moos, "Venturi & Scott Brown in Context"
Yale School of Architecture. Spring 2010

Session organizer and moderator, “A Few More Words: Students in Conversation With Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown,” Architecture After Las Vegas Symposium. Yale School of Architecture. Spring 2010

Yale School of Architecture, Undergraduate Senior studio.

Columbia University, GSAPP Advanced Studio IV.

Yale School of Architecture, Contemporary Discourse Colloquium.

Yale School of Architecture, Analytic Drawing Seminar.

Rhode Island School of Design, Studio: Expansive Infrastructures.

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, New Orleans Workshop.

California College of Art, Bruce Tomb Sculpture Studio.

U.C. Berkeley School of Architecture, Kory Bieg Studio.

Tulane University, Final Thesis Reviews.

participant, Learning / Doing / Thinking: Educating Architects in the 21st Century, Yale University. 2016

curator, Pedagogy + Place, Yale University. 2015

Responsibilities: select and secure nearly 300 drawings, photographs, models, and ephemera from multiple institutional archives and private collections; compose wall text, descriptive labels, and exhibition catalog, as well as an extensively researched and annotated timeline documenting the first century of architecture education at Yale; design the exhibition layout and wall graphics; interview alumni and create a short documentary that succinctly communicates the history and significance of Yale’s architecture program.

participant, Lights, Camera, Demolition: Penn Station Recalled on Stage and in Pictures, Center for Architecture. 2013

participant, Breaking Out and Breaking In, Columbia University Studio-X. 2012

organizer, Fugitive Geographies, Yale University. 2011

exhibitor, Des Cours. AIA exhibition, New Orleans, LA. 2009

exhibitor, CAMP: Reconsidered. 3A Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2008

exhibitor, Something Interesting Kit. Chelsea College of Art, London. 2007

exhibitor, Kickit. SPACE Gallery, New Orleans, LA. 2004

NPR's How to Do Everything, ep.205

ABC Radio National’s Books and Arts Daily, “Michelangelo’s David”

Here & Now, “KALQ Vs. QWERTY: The Search For A Better Keyboard”

NPR’s How to Do Everything, ep.94

2020

• "Invisible City Reveals Philly’s Avant-garde,” The Architect’s Newspaper (March 202)

2019

• “Höweler + Yoon will plant fluted concrete in the center of Boston,” The Architect’s Newspaper (September 2019)

• “Renzo Piano crowns the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures with a sweeping glass dome,” The Architect’s Newspaper (August 2019)

• "Architect Cesar Pelli Passes Away," Metropolis (July 2019)

• “MVRDV's The Imprint distorts its surroundings with glass fiber–reinforced concrete,” The Architect’s Newspaper (July 2019)

• “Harvard’s HouseZero is a live-in lab for sustainable renovation,” The Architect’s Newspaper (June 2019)

• “UCCA Dune Museum burrows into a Chinese beach,” The Architect’s Newspaper (June 2019)

• “Harvard’s HouseZero is a live-in lab for sustainable renovation,” The Architect’s Newspaper (June 2019)

• “FreelandBuck draws on representation for spatial effects,” The Architect’s Newspaper (February 2019)

• “MODU's multi-disciplinary approach to architecture equips them for any task,” The Architect’s Newspaper (February 2019)

2018

• "Brooklyn's Future Green wants to change the way we think about weeds," The Architect's Newspaper (January 2018)

• "LA-Más’s vibrant, socially conscious architecture sweeps L.A.," The Architect's Newspaper (January 2018)

2017

• "Robotics and Fulfilment Centers are Reshaping Retail," The Architect's Newspaper (August 2017)

• "In Detail: The Stealth Building," The Architect's Newspaper Special Edition: Facades (April 2017)

• "New Orleans firm redefines overlooked and undervalued properties," The Architect's Newspaper (March 20, 2017)

2016

• "Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center – a theatrical medical school," The Guardian (August 3, 2016)

• "Cornelia Parker’s Psychobarn brings a haunting beauty to the Met Rooftop," The Architect's Newspaper (May 16, 2016)

• REX Revamps Davis Brody Bond's Five Manhattan West, The Architect's Newspaper (May 13, 2016)

• "Terraform Central Park? Why Not?," The Guardian (March 31, 2016)

• “Gone Grill: Ambassador Grill and the Future of Postmodern Preservation,” The Architect’s Newspaper (March 7, 2016)

• “New York’s Oculus transit hub soars, but it’s a phoenix with a price tag,” The Guardian (March 4, 2016)

• "Studio Visit: Morris Adjmi Architects," The Architect's Newspaper (March 2, 2016)

• Pedagogy and Place: 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), with Robert A.M. Stern

• "Fully Jacked: Raising the Palace Theater," The Architect's Newspaper (February 4, 2016)

2014

• "Fulton Center Review: A Vision of New York's Cold Future," The Guardian (November 24, 2014)

• "The Cooper Hewitt Reopens in New York," Smithsonian (November 2014)

• "OfficeUS: It's not an office, but it's not NOT an office," Architect (unpublished)

• "Yale in Venice," Constructs (spring 2014)

• "James Rouse's Legacy of Better Living Through Design," Smithsonian (April 2014)

• "Seeing Seeing Double Double," Architizer (March 2014)

• "John Johansen's Electrifying Architecture," Architizer (February 2014)

• "Bunker-busting Architecture: Reviving a War-time Typology," Architizer (February 2014)

2013

• “Fugitive Ducts, or Die Hard and Deleuze," Volume No.37 (November 2013)

• “Cold Case Cathedral,” 306090: Non-)Essential Knowledge for (New) Architecture: 306090, Volume 15

• “XS Collaborative,” Constructs (Fall 2013)

• “From Frühlicht to Slapstick,” Soiled No.4 (Spring 2013)

• “Back on the Market: High-End High-Rises,” Wired (October 2013)

• "McDonald's McModernist Roots," Salon (July 2013)

• “Welcome to The Tech-plex,” Wired (June 2013)

• “The Little Bang,” Smithsonian (February 2013)

• “A Good Dad to Die Hard,” Wired (February 2013)

• “Argus Unbound,” XS No.1 (February 2013)

• “American Beauty: The American Radiator Building,” Tablet (January 2013)

2012

• “Reconsidering Postmodernism,” Journal of Architectural Education Vol.66 No.1 (Nov. 2012)

• “Fluid Panel State,” Idiom, (Sept. 25, 2012)

• “Watching The Clock,” Domus (July 30, 2012)

• “Aesthetics/Anesthetics,” Domus (July 4, 2012)

• “Space, Crime, & Architecture,” PLAT no.2 (Spring, 2012)

• “Reconsidering Postmodernism,” Constructs (Spring, 2012)

• "Visible Cities: Massimo Scolari at Yale," Architizer (February 29, 2012)

2011

• “Interviews with Vincent Scully,” Constructs (Spring 2011)

2010

• “Ghostmodernism,” Junk Jet no.4 (October 2010)

• “Behavioral Values: Emotional Influences,” Crit no.62 (Fall 2010)

• “Learning from Las Vegas,” Constructs (Spring 2010)
  Nina Rappaport, “MED Installation in New Orleans,” Constructs (Spring 2010)

• “Learning from Learning from Las Vegas,” Archinect (February 22, 2010)

• “Vegas, Baby, Vegas,” New Haven Advocate (January 20, 2010)

2009

• Doug MacCash, “Designing in the Dark,” The Times-Picayune (December 10, 2009)

• “Grace and Speed,” New Haven Advocate (November 30, 2009)

• “Brutal Honesty,” New Haven Advocate (October 28, 2009)

• “New Haven Art School Opens,” New Haven Advocate (October 2009)

• “Mapping,” New Liberal Arts, ed. Tim Carmody & Robin Sloan. (San Francisco: Revelator Press, 2009)

• “Blog is in the Details,” ArcCa (Second Quarter 2009)

• “Major Cities See New Museums,” Art in America (April 2009)

• “Public Plaza by Public Architecture,” The San Francisco Appeal (April 8, 2009)

• “The Aleatoric Landscape,” The San Francisco Appeal (March 31, 2009)

• “A look at the new SFMOMA Sculpture Garden,” The San Francisco Appeal (March 19, 2009)

• “Foxy Rehab,” Architect’s Newspaper (March 9, 2009)

• “River House,” Wallpaper (March 2009)

• “Rebirth or Regression? Alcatraz as the New Gitmo” The San Francisco Appeal (January 28, 2009)

• “Great Tall of China,” Architect’s Newspaper (January 27, 2009)

• “Citizen Surveillance,” The San Francisco Appeal (January 16, 2009)

• “Red Light Urbanism,” The San Francisco Appeal (January 9, 2009)

• “New Media Van: An Interview with Ant Farm,” Floater no.2 (January 2009)

• “Expanding the Dialog,” ArcCa (First Quarter 2009)

2008

• “Living Lodge,” Architect’s Newspaper (October 29, 2008)

• “At the Opening of Libeskind’s CJM,” Architect Magazine (July 2008)

• “The Holley House,” Wallpaper (April 2008)

• “The Venice Biennale,” ArcCa (Fourth Quarter 2008)

• “Spread the Good Word,” ArcCa (First Quarter 2008)

2007

• Gideon Shapiro, “Meet the Bloggers,” Architect Magazine (September 2007)
  2006:

• “Architecture Blogs,” MARK, (Summer 2006)

• “Life Without Buildings,” Architectural Review, (May 2006)

Curbed San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Founding Contributing Editor. 2008–2009

Life Without Buildings Architecture Blog
Founder and Editor. 2005–2010

Yale University Graduate & Professional Student Senate
Public Relations Chair. 2010–2011

Yale University Graduate & Professional Student Senate.
School of Architecture Senator. 2009–2010
Founder and co-coordinator of “Meantime,” a graduate presentation series

AWARDS

Alpha Rho Chi Medal for Leadership, Tulane University
Class of ’73 Traveling Fellowship, Tulane University