For three weeks I participated in an Earthship Biotecture internship in Taos, New Mexico. Here are notes and pictures from that time. Taos, New Mexico is in the high desert and has a suitable climate and abundant materials for adobe construction. The dry climate with extreme temperature fluctuations is suitable for adobe because of its …
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winter 2026
The library of today is more than an externalization of the dewy decimal system, it is a place for communities to converge and engage in the act of learning. This quarter we redefined the library as a “mediatheque” to better capture the programming needs of the contemporary library. Today many people learn through a vast …
community rebuilds 2022
In 2022 I spent two months at Community Rebuilds (CR) in Moab, Utah as an intern to learn about strawbale construction. At that time CR was contracted to build 12 homes in the Moab Area Community Land Trust. CR receives funding from the USDA through the Mutual Self-Help Housing Technical Assistance Grant and builds homes …
yestermorrow 2023
Yestermorrow Design/Build School is located in Waitsfield, Vermont and founded in 1980. The school was founded by architects escaping New York in the ‘70s to build freely through a hands-on / design-build approach in a state that did not regulate the construction of single family homes. To this day Vermont has not adopted the residential …
fall 2025
For our Fall 2025 design studio, we were each tasked to design a “maker-space.” At random we were each given a building material and a maker medium. My maker was a textile artist, and my building type was wood. The textile artists are specifically natural dyers, fabricators of small batch natural fiber clothes, instructors, and …
summer 2025
This week (Sept 5th) marks the conclusion of my first quarter and first studio course for a Masters of Architecture degree at Portland State University. Since my undergraduate degree is not in architecture, I am enrolled in the 3 year program rather than the 2 year program. Every quarter there will be a studio course …
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