My approach toward urban development integrates architectural design and real estate investment. Too often, the role of design is limited to aesthetic outcomes that do not express the full range of strategic problem solving required to deliver exceptional projects. The primary drivers of value are determined early in a project, long before design is considered. That's why in my view, development processes - like land acquisition, zoning, program and financing - are in fact design questions and should be included as part of a comprehensive approach.

Since moving to New York City in 2012, I've worked on masterplan urban districts, high-rise buildings and interior renovations. These experiences, from luxury condos to affordable housing, have provided me with broad perspectives on who benefits from urban development. My goal is to find new ways for people to access the benefits of real estate, in a time when the techniques and lifestyles surrounding property use, ownership and investment are changing. Overall, I believe having an ownership stake in where one lives can help create healthier neighborhoods and more equitable cities.

 As a graduate with a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP, I had the privilege to develop experimental projects that explore the relationship between design and investment. This led me to develop research projects around cooperative and syndicated shareholder models in Berlin and Zürich as well as economically driven urban development phenomenon in Copenhagen, Florence, Hanoi and Shanghai. My current work involves development and investment models that seek to produce new types of urban living through networked property assets.