In collaboration with Studio D Consulting + Design and Moniz Architecture
Schematic renderings for conceptual design and fundraising. Maximized timeline, budget and next phase deliverables by modeling in Revit and generating linework, light, shadow and texture. Final rendering in Photoshop.
Organizing visual information to tell a story about a project and convey complex information through imagery. Exploration of the use of a comic book aesthetic and layout. Layouts include collages of renderings from Revit, Photoshop and Sketchup as well as hand drawn and photographic elements. Projects include work performed while interning at William McDonough + Partners.
A collection of studio work from my Master in Architecture graduate studies at the University of Texas School of Architecture. I entered school right as Hurricane Katrina was tearing through New Orleans. It expelled a flood of refugees to Baton Rouge and elsewhere, but I had already migrated away earlier that summer following my two year commitment with Teach for America in South Louisiana. Sketch-up had just become widely available my first year of study and my prescient professor had us use it as an experimental software in studio. The school purchased its first laser cutter by the end of my second year, although it took everyone about a year to figure out how to use it. By the fourth year they had a 3D printer. My last semester I proposed and executed a course to teach Revit Architecture Suite to incoming students as I was simultaneously learning the software at my part-time job. Despite all these options, I loved most to make scrappy little hand models. Perhaps I knew the opportunities to do so would be slim outside of school. Right before graduating, the great recession began to take hold. I was blessed to be in Austin, and already employed.
Handmade tile mosaics, paintings, sewn pieces, renderings and ideas generated over the years. I had an early start in painting, drawing and sewing, but my training as an architect has evolved my interests into a more sculptural direction. I love the way materials feel, colors combine, and found objects tell a story. I am interested in the literal and figurative weaving together of my life as it continues to evolve. I enjoy thinking, but also seeing my thoughts manifest. I express my love through these artifacts that often become gifts.
The birth of my daughter has had a profound effect on me in many ways. Out of circumstance, necessity and love I find her pre-representational mark making to be fascinating. I am exploring the idea of collaborations with her.
