Winner of the 2009 School of Architecture’s Harriet Peck Prize for Best Thesis

Thesis Statement: Architecture as an icon performs as a signifier for time and place. Precariously balancing between multiple scales, it draws definition from the past tense and assumes a role in the future. Inhabiting the space found between contradictions it’s architecture becomes more than a material reality. It is a medium to encounter the tension between individual experience and collective memory. Besides operating within the rigid constraints of physical being, the icon creates a spatial syntax in which the polarity between context and image can be realized. It transcends ‘object’ through the manifestation of complex social, media and sensory events.

Project: Design of an architectural icon for Kabul, Afghanistan.