My practice combines architecture and real estate development, primarily in multi-family residential and hospitality. I typically work on the ownership side, helping GPs navigate the complexity of physical assets. My involvement is varied and far-ranging in all phases of the development process - from initial concept to final punch-list. In pre-development phases I conduct feasibility studies, site analysis, acquisition due diligence, CapEx modeling, value-add design, and entitlement processes. I hire and manage design teams, third-party consultants and contractors. Throughout the process I represent ownership in coordination with AHJ, legal counsel, investors and other financing partners.
As a graduate with a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture (GSAPP), I had the privilege to explore the relationship between design and economy in advanced design studios and as a Tamer Center fellow at the Columbia Business School. This led me to research housing development methods in Zurich, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hanoi and Shanghai. More recently, I've been developing a portfolio of carefully crafted short and long term rentals in New York. On a professional level I advocate for the adoption of more innovative development practices in the United States including high-density walkable neighborhoods, low-carbon construction methods and building code changes that allow for higher quality housing design.
Recent Clients & Collaborators:
Post Company
K2 Developers
JRM Construction
Stacy Adimando
K2 Developers
Implied Hotels
Sixty West
NJ Performing Art Center
Prudential w, Omeed Sathe
Chuck Laven
Education:
2014-2017
Masters of Architecture
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture (GSAPP)
New York City, New York
2007-2011
BFA (Art History & Urban Design)
Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, Maryland
Projects:
-- 2022-23 Historic 'Jeff House' gut renovation, new kitchen, Jeffersonville NY
-- 2022-23 Hotel conversion adaptive reuse, 107 units, Naples Florida with K2 Developers
-- 2022 400 unit multi-family development study, Orlando FL with K2 Developers
-- 2022 Super 8 Hotel acquisition due diligence, Naples FL with K2 Developers
-- 2022 White Roe, residential investment property acquisition & renovation, Livingston Manor NY
-- 2022 Beechwoods residential development conservation easement study, Callicoon NY
-- 2022 House Kautz, Farmhouse renovation and extension, Design & Project Management, Callicoon NY
-- 2022 Little North, gourmet food market & commercial kitchen building renovation with Stacy Adimando, Livingston Manor NY
-- 2021 Beech House Office Studio, ongoing ADU design and built project, Callicoon NY
-- 2021 Guest House Studio pre-development study, Cape Cod Massachusetts with Studio Zollo
-- 2021 19 Fred Hessinger investment & project management, Callicoon Center New York
-- 2021 Farming Land Development Study for hospitality F&B, Tyler Hill Pennsylvania
-- 2020-22 Callicoon Hills, hotel development, project manager for all capital improvements with Implied Hotels & Post Company
-- 2019-20 Ybor City Garden Studio, micro-dwelling new construction in Tampa Florida
-- 2017-19 NJPAC Arts & Education District urban development masterplan design, with Prudential
-- 2019 Pier 70 Airstream, San Francisco, with Tungsten Partners Michael Bisordi & Suzanne Zwimmer
-- 2018 Node Republik Bar, Theater & Camp with Anthony Zollo, Ben Schleif & Bill Boddell
-- 2017 Remedial Egress System, Newark NJ, rePLACE Urban Studio & Prudential
-- 2017 The Republic of Samsung, Ap Đon, Vietnam, GSAPP, critic Mark Wasuita
-- 2017 Morris Black Commons, HUD Affordable Housing Design Competition, National Finalist
-- 2017 Hybrid Models in Cooperative Housing, GSAPP William Kinne Traveling Grant, Zürich CH
-- 2017 Strongholds of an Opposition, Interview with Hans Widmar, co-founder KraftWerk1, Nena1, Zürich CH
-- 2017 Housing By Other Means, Interview with Res Keller co-founder Kalkbreite, Zürich CH
-- 2016 Tamer Center Fellowship For Social Enterprise, Columbia MBA with Adam Greenfield
-- 2016 Cher Software App. Beta Testing, Copenhagen DK, Oslo Architecture Triennial
-- 2016 Private Residencies, Site Analysis, Future Expansion & Chuck Laven
-- 2016 Teachers Village & Bears Stadium - Site Analysis & Marketing, RBH Group, Lotus Equity Group / PAU
-- 2016 Distributive Property Event, Columbia GSAPP with A-Frame, Consensys, Ubitquity
-- 2016 reWorking Architecture, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago Architecture Triennial with The Architecture Lobby
-- 2016 Alternative Practice Workshop, New Museum; GSAPP Incubator, with A-Frame, TAL, Phil Berstein
-- 2016 Kay's, Callicoon, NY, Design Renovation, Financial Modeling
-- 2016 Genome Research Center, Millbrook NY, GSAPP, critic Leong Leong
-- 2016 Modular Hotel, Goanus Canal, Brooklyn, GSAPP, David Wallance
-- 2016 Modular Winterization Partition, PropDevs with Anthony Zollo
-- 2016 Decentralized Energy Systems in Public Housing, NYC, advisor Micheal Bell
-- 2016 Rockaway Climate Resiliency, Far Rockaway, Queens, GSAPP Studio with Byron Stigge
-- 2015 Baugrouppen Housing Developments, Berlin DE, critic Hillary Sample
-- 2015 Parsons New Challenge, Rural NY Infrastructure, Grant Funded Research
-- 2015 1908 School House, Schematic Investment Proposals, Callicoon NY
-- 2015 Drawing Machines, Drawing Representation, GSAPP, critic Laura Kurgan
-- 2015 Blockchain Enabled Co-Housing Concept Outline
-- 2015 Bjork Exhibition, MOMA, The Living
-- 2015 Peer-to-Peer Housing, South Bronx, GSAPP, critic Hillary Sample
-- 2015 180 E88 St & 12 Warren St, Manhattan, DDG Partners
-- 2015 Data Bank, Queens, GSAPP, critic Julian Rose
-- 2015 Young Architects Respond with A-Frame
-- 2015 The Entrepreneurship Question, Columbia GSAPP, with A-Frame, The Architecture Lobby
-- 2015 Non-Objective Infrastructures Exhibition, Callicoon NY with Buildclass, C2Renew, FOAM, OSP
-- 2014 Alternative Practice Research with The Architecture Lobby
-- 2014 Amy Lau Design, Various Residential Projects, Manhattan NYC
-- 2014 Weigh Station, Design Renovation & Programming, Callicoon NY, with ENGN
-- 2014 Malevich Pissoir, Manhattan, GSAPP, critic Josh Uhl
-- 2013 Horigatatzu Table, Adirondacks, NY
-- 2013 Storefront For Art and Architecture, various exhibitions including Aircraft Carrier, Ideas City
-- 2013 Beagle & Potts Custom Woodworking, Brooklyn, NYC
-- 2012 Ghost Town Developments, 'Italy Town', Suburban Shanghai
-- 2011 Baltimore: Open City Exhibition, MICA EDS, Baltimore, with Dan D'Oca, Damon Rich
-- 2011 Installation #06, Installation #04, Baltimore, MICA