I dream of architecture that breathes with time – where buildings are not frozen moments but living entities that grow, adapt, and return to earth. Like the rings of a tree or layers of sediment, spaces should mark their age proudly, where weathering and wear become poetry rather than decay. Each stone, each beam, each wall moving to the rhythm of the communities they shelter, evolving with their needs and aspirations.
Within this vision, the boundaries between creator and dweller fade into memory. Architecture rises not from the mind of a single author, but emerges from the collective wisdom of communities. Knowledge flows like water, nourishing new possibilities where economic constraints become creative catalysts, and growth follows the natural pace of human lives.
From this foundation blooms a harmony so profound that one questions whether our creations were designed or simply evolved. Not through mere imitation, but through deep understanding of the forces that shape our world – the same principles that carve valleys and raise mountains. Here, human ingenuity dances with nature's wisdom, creating spaces that feel as if they've always belonged.
Through this approach, buildings become more than structures – they become living extensions of their sites, drawing life from local soils and cultural roots. They breathe with their surroundings, enhance rather than deplete, grow rather than impose. Each project becomes a celebration of place, where sustainability transforms from preservation to regeneration.
This dream - or rather, this vision reaches beyond better buildings – it seeks to fundamentally reimagine our relationship with time, community, nature, and place. It awaits in the space between what architecture is and what it could become, in the moment where growth replaces construction, where evolution supersedes design, where emergence transcends imposition.
Academic Recognitions
TAF Horace McCord Memorial Scholarship / Texas Architectural Foundation Spring 2025
Design Excellence Nomination (Advanced Studio) / University of Texas at Austin Fall 2024
Design Excellence Nomination (Comprehensive Studio) / University of Texas at Austin Spring 2024
Design Excellence Nomination (Design IV Studio) / University of Texas at Austin Fall 2023
UTSOA Design Futures Representative / University of Oregon 2023
AIA RGV Scholar / Lower Rio Grande Valley 2023 -
President’s Award for Global Learning / University of Texas at Austin & Moi University 2022-2023
Dell Scholar / University of Texas at Austin 2021 -
Reading List (for me)
Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity / Mario Carpo 2023
Notes on the Synthesis of Form / Christopher Alexander 1964
Assemblage Theory / Manuel De Land 2016
Shigeru Ban: Humanitarian Architecture / 2014
Meditations / Marcus Aurelius
Growing Architecture: How to Make Buildings Out of Trees / Ferdinand Ludwig 2018
The Fall / Albert Camus 1956
Steps to an Ecology of Mind / Gregory Bateson 1976
Landform Building / Stan Allen 2011
S, M, L, XL / Bruce Mau and Rem Koolhaas 1995
Existentialism is Humanism / Jean-Paul Satre 1946