Design / Counter-Design

My design work treats architecture as both building practice and cultural medium. Through built projects, exhibitions, prototypes, and speculative work, I investigate how architectural form, material assemblies, and siting can operate after extraction and beyond white supremacy. Much of my work unfolds collaboratively, across shared authorship with architects, engineers, artists, scholars, and organizers.

I am a co-founder of the Black Reconstruction Collective, and my design practice has been shaped by collaborative platforms including SUPERFRONT, A(n) Office, Atelier Office, and Black Box. Across these formations, architecture is treated as a site of political imagination, material experimentation, and public address.

Practice Timeline

Atelier Office (2020–present)
Since 2020, Atelier Office has engaged forward-thinking clients on commissions toward non-extractive architectural futures. Atelier Office folds an experimental legacy into a service-oriented design firm practicing architecture and urban design.

A(n) Office (2013–2020)
A(n) Office produced built work, exhibitions, and speculative projects across Detroit, Brooklyn, and international venues, positioning architecture as a cultural and political medium.

SUPERFRONT (2008–2013)
SUPERFRONT was a nonprofit gallery, publishing platform, and public forum advancing architecture through exhibitions, talks, and publications at the intersection of art, urbanism, and social critique.

Select Design Projects

• Studio at RadiQal Farms, Hopewell, NJ (2024–2026)
• Institute for AfroUrbanism — Dreamstead (2021–2022)
• R:R (Republica: Reconstructed) , Museum of Modern Art (2021)
• Campbell Incubator House (2017–2020)
• House Opera (2013–2016)

Select Exhibitions + Installations

• Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America , Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021)
• Methexis , Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2016)
• Glitter Disaster, Istanbul Design Biennial (2016)
• Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation (2019),
• Black Site #1 and #2 (2010–2011)

Select Press + Critical Reception

• Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians — Walter D. Greason on Reconstructions (2022)
• Architectural Record — Fred A. Bernstein, “Architecture Schools Begin to Put Embodied Carbon Front and Center” (2022)
• Art in America — Julian Lucas, “Imagining the Emancipated City” (2021)
• The New York Times — Michael Kimmelman, “How Can Blackness Construct America?” (2021)
• Metropolis — Drew Zeiba, “How Atelier Office Is Upending the Architectural Paradigm” (2020)
• PIN-UP Magazine — including “Reconstruct! A Special Issue on Architecture and Blackness in America” (F/W 2021/2020)