Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
I am interested in architectures of biopolitical resistance, particularly as they historically manifest in queer spaces and networks of activist solidarities. While I have primarily focused on North America and AIDS activism during my Masters studies, I am now turning to histories of queer resistance during the Portuguese fascist period. I seek to understand the role of Salazarist architecture in disciplining deviant and resistant bodies, and conversely, how sites of dissident gathering contributed to the fall of the regime. To do so, I deploy interdisciplinary and transnational methodologies that entangle and complicate Portugal’s post-fascist period with waves of post-colonial immigration, queer media production, neoliberalization, gentrification, and adhesion to supranational institutions like the EU.
Education
Ph.D. in Architecture, Columbia University GSAPP/GSAS, September 2024-current Certificate in Comparative Literature and Society
Master of Science in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture, Columbia University GSAPP, May 2024
Thesis: “Visions of the Necropolis: ACT UP and the Spatial Politics of Death”
Thesis Advisor: Felicity D. Scott
Master of Architecture, with honors, Boston Architectural College, May 2020 Thesis: “Temenos: Mirrors of the Numinous”
Thesis Advisor: Michelangelo Latona
B.A. Architectural Studies, magna cum laude, Boston University, May 2017
Minors: French, Visual Arts
Kilachand Honors College
Keystone Project: “The American Dormitory”
Keystone Advisor: Alice Tseng
École américaine des beaux-arts de Fontainebleau, France, summer 2019
Introduction to Architecture, Columbia University GSAPP, summer 2016
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Barnard College, 2023-2024
Modern Architecture in the World (Asst. Professor Ignacio Galán)
City, Landscape, and Ecology (Asst. Professor Ralph Ghoche)
Organized and led student discussion sections, evaluated weekly exercises and papers, held office hours
Visiting Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Fall 2022
History of Architecture and Urban Planning
Independently developed syllabus and lectures, engaged and evaluated students in creatively writing about architectural history, lectured on architectural history (Neolithic-1700)
Adjunct Faculty, Boston Architectural College, Fall 2020
Sacred Space: (De/Re)constructing Sacred Typologies
Independently developed syllabus out of Master’s thesis; lectured on histories, design, and typologies of sacred, queer, and feminist spaces; engaged and evaluated students in creative responses to weekly topics; facilitated guest speakers and critics
Teaching Assistant, Boston Architectural College 2018-2020
History of Architecture and Design (Adj. Professor Edward DeBlieck)
Sustainable Material Assemblies (Professor Michael Fiorillo)
Organized and led student discussion groups; evaluated student drawings, diagrams, and term papers; guest lectured
Guest Speaker and Critic
- Wentworth Institute of Technology, Final Thesis Reviews, Spring 2022 (Instructor: Mark Pasnik)
- Boston Architectural College, Degree Project 2 Midterm Review, Spring 2022 (Instructor: Samuel Maddox)
- Boston Architectural College, Transdisciplinary Studio Final Review, Spring 2021 (Instructor: Lee Peters)
Research Experience
Research Assistant, Columbia University GSAPP, 2023-2024
Assistant to CCCP Director Mark Wasiuta, conducting primary and secondary source research
Graduate Student Internship in Primary Sources, Avery Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Summer 2023
Processed, filed, and wrote finding aids for Daniel Dunham, John Barrington Bayley, and Georges Gurdjieff collections
Research-Designer, Boston Architectural College Gateway Project: Designing for Dignity
Conducted primary and secondary research on the opioid crisis, directed site analysis and created diagrams for community presentation
Publications
- Editor of Fieldnotes from the Pluriversity: Reflections on the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale (online, 2024) with introduction, “Notes on the Pluriversity,” and contributing essay, “The Blue Hour: Pilgrimage and Architecture’s ‘Moral Community.’”
- “New Hermetics,” Fresh Meat, no. 13, forthcoming.
- “Flattening Time: The Ruined Temple & The Oberealta Chapel,” Drawing Matter, 2022.
- “Lares: A Reflection on the Portuguese Third Generation and Placemaking,” POOL LA, no. 6 (2021).
- “American Architect,” in Bee Breeder’s Poems of a Modern Day Architect, (Buildner Publishing, 2020)
- Contributor to New York Review of Architecture, “Skyline” column
Curatorial Experience
- Drive://, GSAPP End of the Year Show, Spring 2023
Led group curation of thesis projects, interviewed participants, edited video-works, designed and installed work - Urbanity-Reverie: Scenes of Camberville, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, 2022
Solo show of photographic work - Student Work Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, 2017
Group show of student work, exhibited project titled, Heterotopias
Honors and Awards
- CCCP Award for Outstanding Thesis, May 2024
- CCCP Peer to Peer Award, May 2024
- Merit Scholarship, Columbia University GSAPP, 2023-2024
- AIA Henry Adams Award, Boston Architectural College, 2020
- Prix du Jury, École américaine des beaux-arts de Fontainebleau, 2019
- Gregory Hudson Alumni Award, Boston University, May 2017
Architectural Experience
Architectural Designer, Abacus Architects + Planners, Boston, MA, Nov. 2020-Sep. 2022
Architectural Designer, Timothy Burke Architects, Boston, MA, Sep. 2019-Nov. 2020
Design Staff, Centrepoint Architects, Somerville, MA, April 2018-June 2019
Intern, Nelson Wilmotte Architectes, Paris, France, Oct.-Dec. 2015
Professional Memberships
Society of Architectural Historians
Languages
- English, native
- French, proficient (TCF C2)
- Portuguese, advanced
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