I am a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at ETH Zürich, bringing a background in design, education, and writing to my research on the mass housing landscapes of Berlin. Before joining ETH, I was an adjunct professor at the University of Houston. I hold degrees in architecture, urban design, and city planning from Rice University and TU Berlin, where I also taught and conducted research in various assistant roles. Supervised by the Chair of History and Theory of Urban Design (Prof. Tom Avermaete) and the Chair of Architecture and Housing (Prof. Maria Conen), my work moves across theory, method, and practice.
My academic path has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Program at UC Berkeley and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Additional grants and residencies supported studies at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal (CCA), Universidade de Lisboa, and Tongji University in Shanghai. I have published my work in peer-reviewed academic journals (Landscape Research, OASE, City, Culture & Society, Comparative Studies in Modernism), architecture magazines (koozArch, Cite), and graduate student-led peer-reviewed platforms (Pidgin, trans, Room One Thousand, PLAT, Paprika!).
My design experience spans architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design practices in Houston, Berlin, and Lisbon. Ongoing design and curatorial work takes place in collaboration with Lulu Crouzet under the name Deux___.
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