Lake House

The client seeks a house well suited to extended family gatherings at the lake. This Georgia house, adapted from a developer plan, reorganizes the massing around a grid with dormers marking the order and setting up the reading of the massing. Shifts of the roof and centerline enrich the experience of interior and exterior space with a subtle complexity. The stair is celebrated as a major dynamic feature of the interior experience. The lakeside porches and mudroom/service area overlay the primary mass, counterbalancing the composition. The two primary gable ends are treated with unique features, a projecting window informally tied to a chimney at the north end and a sleeping porch above the master bath providing a more formal end composition at the south facade. The scale of the windows is manipulated to flood the interior with natural light, provide amble views of the lake, and to serve as the dominant feature of the architecture.

Venice International University Competition Masterplan

This masterplan proposal for Venice International University on the island of San Sèrvolo leverages the unique qualities of Venetian urbanism to serve the needs of the campus community. A new canal allows increased access by boat to the campus facilities. An urban complexity is developed by mixing academic buildings with housing throughout the island. Clear pathways designed for visual stimulation and orientation link the various community functions, with key elements anchoring campi and terminating views. The density and variety of pathways generate a strong sense of place with a sensual richness.

Coastal House

A modest house along the coast in Maine provides an artist with intimate simple space for living and painting while maximizing view, light, and fresh air. This house intentionally seeks to reduce each space to the minimum required for its function to achieve a number of goals: enhance the interior environment by maximizing intimacy of space, economizing to increase affordability, and reducing heated volume to minimize carbon footprint.

Mountain House

This ridge-top house, designed in collaboration with Jeffrey Burden, overlooks the Smoky Mountains with layers of interior and exterior space filled with mountain air and tranquility

Central Park West Apartment

Designed with Anh Truong Montgomery, this elegant apartment is customized to the clients’ program for space for enjoying and making art, books, and cooking filled with light and park views

Midtown Townhouse

Designed with Anh Truong Montgomery, this town house with interiors by Bill Huber, provides a growing family with colorful textured tailored spaces

Bronx House

Designed with Anh Truong Montgomery, this gambrel roof house is re-defined with an extension that defines the new entry court on a steeply sloping site. A doric eyebrow portico provides a sculpted enrichment of the entrance and resets the presence and character of the house.

Department of Architecture

I was the lead investigator and designer for a comprehensive plan for City Tech’s Dept of Architecture facilities. This work applies my education and pedagogy research to the college’s learning environment to better support the needs of City Tech’s architecture students.

Housing Competition

This competition entry designed with Anh Truong Montgomery responds to New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s (HPD) call for Big Ideas for Small Lots.

Redondo Beach Town Center Masterplan

This study was reviewed by the developer as an alternative to the submitted plans to the town for approval. Our studies aim for a more genuine urban center with smaller scale blocks, a network of small scale streets, and authentic public spaces along the Pacific waterfront.

Selwyn College Extension, Cambridge University

This Porphyrios Associates project won the competition to extend the college facilities with new greens defined by expanded offering of student dormitories, administration space, a theatre, and a new college library. I led the work on the primary green’s dorm wings, admin building, and the library.

Bayonne Golf Clubhouse

Designed while at Hart Howerton, this landmark building rising above New York Harbor reflects the client’s desire to build upon his unique links course design with a striking massing punctuated with a rich skyline articulation.

Bermuda Masterplan for New Village

This Hart Howerton project provides a new hotel, housing, and social/recreation facilities on this dramatic site on with two cove bays, three beaches and a central headland with extensive views of the ocean.

Columbia University Faculty Housing

This Cooper Robertson and Partners’ and Costas Kondylis and Partners’ collaborative project provides faculty and post-doctorate housing south of the university’s campus. The design is carefully tested in the urban context of a slight shift in the alignment of Broadway at 103rd Street.

Integrating Public Housing Research

This research project explores the potential for re-integrating the Farragut Houses in Downtown Brooklyn into the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. The superblocks are broken down, with reintroduced streets, parks, and squares. Each existing tower is given private green space for gardens and family use.

Shingle Style Clubhouse

This Hart Howerton project takes advantage of the asymmetrical topography to create an opportunity to link the entry elevation with the top of the knoll, generating a sequence the culminates in views of the distant landscape and a landmark skyline element.

Haiti Culinary/Hospitality Program

This pro-bono project serves the City Tech initiative to help build resilience and economic development in Haiti through development of the tourist infrastructure and the training and advancement of Haitian hospitality professionals.

High Rise Apartment

This client required two large apartments in a Helmut Jahn tower in Lower Manhattan to be combined into a large family home, working around the existing infrastructure of the tower.

Morocco Villas

This Hart Howerton large scale project included a major masterplan along with carefully crafted interpretations of Moroccan courtyard housing transformed into modern oceanfront villas.

Rural House in Midwest

This Thomas Gordon Smith project taps into the rich Greek Revival tradition of design and craftsmanship in the Midwest. The structurally independent stair’s careful crafting mirrors the period furniture, enhancing the sense of graceful living in a rural landscape.

The Inn at Perry Cabin

While at Copper Robertson, I led the design of the masterplan of the Inn’s path network, gardens, and new buildings including three new guest wings, a spa, a pool house, and a wedding chapel.

Dominican Republic Clubhouse

This Hart Howerton project seeks to maximize luxury and amenity while minimizing interior conditioned space and building footprint.