EDUCATION
Yale School of Architecture
Master of Environmental Design. 2011
Thesis: Architecture In Medias REZ
Tulane University School of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture. 2004
Thesis: Nouvelle Vague: Alternative Restoration in the Vieux Carré
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Smithsonian magazine
Editor of Design Decoded, Smithsonian's art and design blog. June 2012 - present
Mark Horton Architecture, San Francisco CA
Designer / Project Manager. March 2006 - January 2009
Wayne Troyer Architect, New Orleans LA
Designer / Project Manager. May 2004 - August 2005
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Research Associate
Yale University. Spring 2011 - present
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
Teaching Assistant to Dean Robert A.M. Stern, Parallels of the Modern.
Yale School of Architecture. Fall 2010
Teaching Assistant 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
INVITED JURIES + LECTURES
- Columbia University, GSAPP Advanced Studio IV. Spring 2013
- Yale School of Architecture, Contemporary Discourse Colloquium. Spring 2013
- Yale School of Architecture, Analytic Drawing Seminar. Spring 2010
- Rhode Island School of Design, Studio: Expansive Infrastructures. Fall 2010
- Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, New Orleans Workshop. Summer 2009
- California College of Art, Bruce Tomb Sculpture Studio. Spring 2009
- U.C. Berkeley School of Architecture, Kory Bieg Studio. Fall & Spring 2009
- Tulane University, Final Thesis Reviews. Spring 2008
EXHIBITIONS & SYMPOSIA
- Breaking Out and Breaking In, Columbia University Studio-X. 2012
- Fugitive Geographies, Yale University. 2011
- Des Cours. AIA exhibition, New Orleans LA. 2009
- CAMP: Reconsidered. 3A Gallery, San Francisco CA. 2008
- Something Interesting Kit. Chelsea College of Art, London. 2007
- Kickit. SPACE Gallery, New Orleans LA. 2004
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming:
- Yale’s Contribution: A History of the Yale School of Architecture (working title), with Robert A.M. Stern
- After Las Vegas, with editors Stanislaus von Moos and Nina Rappaport
- "Cold Case Cathedral," 306090: (Non-)Essential Knowledge for (New)Architecture Vol.15 (2013)
- “From Frühlicht to Slapstick,” Soiled No.4 (Spring 2013)
2013:
- “The Little Bang,” Smithsonian (February 2013): 28
- “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)
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.com (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.com(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 no2 (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.com(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)
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Culvahouse Consulting, San Francisco CA
Online marketing consultant. 2009
Curbed San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Contributing Editor. 2008-2009
Life Without Buildings Architecture Blog
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 the meantime graduate presentation series
AWARDS
Alpha Rho Chi Medal for Leadership, Tulane University
Class of ’73 Traveling Fellowship, Tulane University