The work starts where things have already gone wrong.
Most of my research begins with a specific failure — a flood, a fire, a system that didn't hold. Lahaina is the current site. The questions it raises about water, infrastructure, and how cities recover from disaster have a way of connecting back to everywhere else.
Thesis: Rebuilding Lahaina
A recovery plan for Lahaina, Hawai'i, working across scales from street design to water systems to the social conditions that made the fire so devastating. Still in progress.
rebuildinglahaina.orgMade Design — Parametric & AI Workflows
Developing analysis workflows that combine parametric modeling and AI tools, finding out where the useful parts actually are, which is usually less dramatic than it sounds.
Yamuna River Project — Graduate Fellow
Graduate fellow on a collaborative research project between UVA and Tulane, distilling studio work on the Yamuna River into a published book.
Collective Housing Pedagogy
Co-authored a book with Margarita Jover on how collective housing gets taught — what studios leave implicit, and what happens when you make it explicit. Also presented at ACSA with Yasushi Ishida on pedagogy and post-disaster recovery.
