I am an architect, hotel developer, and researcher working at the intersection of vernacular architecture, hospitality, and extreme-environment design. My practice blends architecture, anthropology, and field-based research, using lived experience and real places - rather than theory alone - as the primary mode of inquiry.

I am a licensed architect and pilot, and I travel to remote and climatically extreme regions - by air, road, and on foot - to study how people have built resilient structures over centuries using local materials, indigenous knowledge, and adaptive systems. My work explores how these traditions can inform contemporary architecture and hospitality models that actively support cultural continuity rather than erode it.

I was educated at Cornell University and began my career in New York City, contributing to major cultural and public projects at leading design firms. Seeking a more place-based and accountable practice, I relocated to Marrakech, where I founded an independent studio focused on earthen architecture, regenerative design, and long-term architectural stewardship. My work resists extractive, trend-driven approaches to design, instead centering knowledge systems embedded in the world’s oldest and most resilient structures.

Today, my work spans architecture, hospitality, beauty, research, and aviation as interconnected projects within a single ecosystem. This includes a vernacular boutique hotel collection, a place-based beauty line reviving ancestral rituals, an expedition-driven research project documenting architecture in extreme environments, and Sol Collection—a small portfolio of lodges, safaris, and fly-in journeys co-founded with my partner, focused on culturally rooted, low-impact travel and long-term community relationships.

Across all scales, I treat architecture not as an object, but as a living system - one that preserves knowledge, sustains communities, and evolves responsibly over time. My work bridges past and future, tradition and experimentation, permanence and impermanence, creating spaces and experiences that are grounded, adaptive, and transformative.