About Me & My Work

I draw on a vocabulary of shapes derived from my travels and the study and practice of architecture. I draw inspiration from the cities I’ve lived in: Brasília, Lisbon, London, New York, Washington D.C. & San Francisco. Brazil is my homeland, but my home is not one place, it is something I create. My peripatetic life has led me to develop a fascination with the urban fabric with which our cities are woven.

My paintings are governed by geometries that, like the grid of a city, provide an underlying order within which form is animated. Through my paintings I am searching for someplace, a place at once real and imagined. I use watercolor and gouache in layers, at times implying material conditions such as transparency or solidity. While my library of forms is in essence simple, its combinations that are infinitely varied.

A creature of habit, I take joy in everyday routines, and, since 2011, have been recording my daily wanderings in the series A Drawing A Day.  It is a visual record of the passage of time. It has become a ritual, a way for me to distill a moment, a mood, onto the page. Recently it is where I record my time spent in urban landscapes, most often at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden which I frequent with my son. In a changing climate it feels imperative that we respect and expand our urban green spaces, and learn to make both our gardens and our cities adaptable and resilient.

Bio

I am a practicing architect, educator, writer, and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. I received a Masters in Architecture from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College. Over the past decade I have practiced architecture in New York and taught at Barnard College and Pratt Institute, where I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Undergraduate School of Architecture. My writing has appeared in The Architect's Newspaper, PLAT Journal, the New York Review of Architecture, and Hyperallergic, among others. I completed a ceramics residency at Further On Artist-in-Residence program in Amagansett, New York. 

Exhibitions & Awards

2021 Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn

2021 Solo Show, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Brooklyn

2018 Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn

2013 256 book for 16,392 images that matter to architecture, NY Art Book Fair, MoMA P.S. 1

2013 Triangle Fire Memorial Competition Finalist, with Beom Jun Kim

2013 Grand Central Sketchbook exhibition, New York Transit Museum, New York, NY, with Tyler Survant

2013 Architecture League of New York Folly Competition, Honorable Mention, with Beom Jun Kim

2012 “16 Squares: 4 Capital Cities in Portugal and Brazil,” The Tunnel Gallery, Barnard College

2012 Finalist, Pruitt-Igoe Now competition, Pruitt Igoe Now Organization, with Tyler Survant

2011 Moulton Andrus Award for excellence in Art and Architecture

2010 KPF Traveling Fellowship recipient

2010 James Gamble Rogers Memorial Fellowship

2009 Kenneth A. Housholder Scholarship

2008 Josephine Paddock Fellowship for graduate study in art

2008 Marcia Meade Design Award for excellence in architectural design

Teaching & Lectures

2020 Pratt Institute Undergraduate Architecture, Representation, Visiting Assistant Professor

2019 Pratt Institute Undergraduate Architecture, Representation, Visiting Assistant Professor

2018 Pratt Institute Undergraduate Architecture, Representation, Visiting Assistant Professor

2017 Pratt Institute Undergraduate Architecture, Representation, Visiting Assistant Professor

2016 Barnard + Columbia Architecture, Intro to Architectural Design, Adjunct Professor

2014 “On Edge: 4 Squares,” lecture at Americas Latino Eco Festival, Boulder, CO.

2013 “Brasília,” lecture at Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurter Buchmesse, with João Almino

2012 “16 Squares: 4 Capital Cities in Portugal and Brazil,” lecture at GSAPP Studio-X Rio

2012 Barnard + Columbia Architecture, Architectural Design III, Research Assistant

Publications

2022 Book Review of Lina Bo Bardi: Material Ideologies (published by Princeton University Press) "Ahead of Her Time: A new book about Lina Bo Bardi showcases recent engagements with the architect’s all-inclusive work," in The Architect's Newspaper

2021 "Ballet Ditches Theater, Embraces City," in the New York Review of Architecture

2020 "Pedregulho and Carmen Portinho: Pioneer of Brazilian Modernism," in Plat 9.0 Commit

2020 Featured in "A View from the Easel During Times of Quarantine," in Hyperallergic

2019 "Plasticity and Influence in 1950s Brazilian Art and Architecture," in Plat 8.0 Simplicity

2018 "Sketches from a Magical, Multimedia Opera set in a Soaring Cathedral," Hyperallergic 

2017 "Winding Paths and Swooping Walls Create an Oasis in London," Hyperallergic

2017 "A Death-Plagued Gilded Age Ballroom, Recreated on the Edge of Central Park," Hyperallergic

2017 "The Hollow Symbolism of Jeff Koons’s Blow-Up Ballerina," Hyperallergic

2017 "Mourning the US Presidency with a Raucous Faux Funeral," Hyperallergic

2017 "The Transporting, Tactile Pleasures of Porcelain," Hyperallergic

2016 "The Abstract Gardens, Both Painted and Built, of a Brazilian Modernist," Hyperallergic

2016 "Pondering and Painting Giorgio Morandi’s Precise Compositions," Hyperallergic

2014 Renewing Architectural Typologies, Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship Book, Yale School of Architecture, Co-Editor with Nina Rappaport

2012 "Manhattan National Park," published in Grand Central Grand Sketchbook: 100 Years of Connections, with Kyle Stover and Tyler Survant

2012 "Stranger than Fiction," in Project 

2012 Featured in citylikeyou

2012 Profiled in "A Contemporary View," Paula Melech, Revista TopView

2012 Profiled in "She’s The Only One," Caderno Ela, O Globo

2012 Profiled in "The Girl Who Wanted to Raise Buildings," Allex Colontonio, WISH Casa

2012 Profiled in "CineArquitetura," Alcino Leite Neto, Serafina Folha de São Paulo

2012 Featured in Wallpaper*  Graduate Directory

2012 Profiled in "Choreographer of Journeys: Young, Rising Brazilian Architect Revisits the Past," Bernardo Esteves, Piauí_64