Pedagogy

Lecture and presentation

My teaching orients students to the entanglements between theory and practice, treating architecture as both a cultural medium and a material discipline. Across undergraduate and graduate levels, I combine critical theory with technical tools, asking students to understand design as an engagement with political, environmental, and ethical questions. My pedagogy foregrounds how design decisions shape—and are shaped by—questions of labor, extraction, displacement, and reparations.

Design Studios

Studio models and drawings

In design studios, architecture is framed as a form of research. Projects move between reading, writing, drawing, modeling, and material exploration. My pedagogy combines spatial theory with design research, often working within cities and collaborating with situated stakeholders. I teach students to develop a line of critical inquiry in the midst of a flexible contemporary design process.

Building Labs and Workshops

Robotics and fabrication lab Material assembly and fabrication

Teaching in building labs and workshops treats computation, materials, and machines as instruments of architectural thinking rather than optimization alone. Emphasis is placed on assemblies, protocols, and full-scale experimentation, foregrounding how labor, uncertainty, and material behavior shape architectural form.

Seminars

Seminar discussion and blackboard

Seminar teaching connects architectural design directly to Black studies. In these courses, students approach architecture as a spatial method for engaging reparations, zoning, infrastructure, planetary climate crisis, and societal imagination. Through varied texts, maps, and source documents, a seminar introduces students to zoning as a spatial tool related to representation, classification, and design. Another seminar addresses reparations as a question of design, in which students study reparations through specific places and develop a design brief.