I am a Los Angeles-based historian, curator, and designer. My research and teachings explore changing definitions of architectural knowledge from the building site to the desktop with a special attention to how architects know and show their histories. I develop exhibitions, publications, and experimental programming and projects investigating cultural techniques in architecture, materials, care work, and institutional practices. I\u2019m Assistant Professor of Architecture<\/a> at Harvey Mudd College and one half of the design research studio Spinagu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I teach a wide range of courses about architecture and design through their histories of making, collecting, instituting, and displaying, with a focus on media studies, processes, historiography, and art and science intersections spanning the early modern period to present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My research investigates the history of cultural techniques in material experimentation, from modeling practices to the making of new materials. I co-curated the Getty PST Art and Science project Material Acts, an interdisciplinary research initiative,<\/a> exhibition<\/a>, publication<\/a>, and symposium<\/a> exploring the intersections of architecture, craft, and science through material experimentation and ecologies. My current projects include The Institution is a Proposition<\/em>, a publication on the mission, histories, and labor economies of small and unusual architecture institutions, and 80 Buildings in the 80s<\/em>, an exhibition on postmodern Los Angeles with Gary Riichir\u014d Fox and Aurora Tang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the past decade, I have cultivated a research-based curatorial practice centering transdisciplinary and inquiry-based exhibitions, alongside the critique and transformation of institutional practice. Previously, I was director and curator at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture<\/a> at the Schindler House. From 2014-2020, I served as director of Materials & Applications<\/a>, a Los Angeles based project space for experimental architecture. I am currently a Board member of the Feminist Center for Creative Work<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Please refer to HSA Departmental Courses<\/a> for this semester\u2019s courses.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a>Courses Taught<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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