I am a Los Angeles-based architectural scholar, curator, and designer whose research explores the materiality of buildings and the history of cultural techniques in architecture. I develop research and curatorial projects, publications, and programs about architecture and its wide-ranging practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an architectural historian, my research examines materials as sites of empirical-knowledge production in twentieth-century architecture\u2014the testing protocols, mock-ups, and experimental infrastructures through which architects and industry established authority over unfamiliar building materials. My dissertation-related work focuses on modeling, mock-ups, and material testing practices in the office of Eero Saarinen and Associates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m Assistant Professor of Architecture<\/a> in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts at Harvey Mudd College and one-half of the architecture and research studio Spinagu<\/a>. For over a decade, I served as director and curator of two small and unusual architecture institutions MAK Center for Art and Architecture<\/a> at the Schindler House and Materials & Applications<\/a>, a Los Angeles-based project space for experimental architecture. I am a Board member of the Feminist Center for Creative Work<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2024, I co-curated the Getty PST ART project Material Acts, an interdisciplinary research initiative,<\/a> exhibition<\/a>, publication<\/a>, and symposium<\/a> exploring material experimentation in design and architecture at the intersections of architecture, craft, and science, presented at Craft Contemporary. I am co-curator of the exhibition Unknowing Los Angeles,<\/em> a history of postmodern Los Angeles architecture with Gary Riichir\u014d Fox and Aurora Tang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alongside my historical scholarship, I work with, support, and advocate for small art and architecture organizations. I\u2019m working on The Institution is a Proposition,<\/em> a publication on the mission, histories, and labor economies of small and unusual architecture institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My work has been generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Getty Foundation, California Council of Arts, Canadian Center for Architecture, DAAD, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCourses Taught<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n