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NYC based; Born Trinidad and Tobago, 1989

Professional Experience


2021 - Present
Michalski Studio Architecture, NYC
Project Designer

2016 - 2021
Urban Homecraft, Brooklyn, NY
Senior Designer, Project Manager

2014 - 2016
Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY
Resident Fellow, Program Coordinator, Project Manager

2007 - 2009
Mark Raymond Architect, Trinidad
Architectural Assistant

Education


2009 - 2014
Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York,
Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch), five-year accredited degree

2005 - 2007
St. Mary’s College, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (A-Level); Distinction Honors

Architectural Internships


2012     Mocad Ltd, Trinidad
2011     Eiroa Architects, New York,
2010    We Haul Ltd, Trinidad
2005    ACLA:Works, Trinidad

Teaching


2015 - 2016
Rhode Island School of Design, RI - visiting critic Thesis Review

2011 - 2013
Cooper Union Saturday Architecture Program, NY - Instructor

2012 - 2016
Arts Letters & Numbers, NY - Fellow

Conferences + Workshops


2017
Tertium Quid: landscape, cuts, color - Averill Park, NY

2016
Zoëtrope Sun, Averill Park, NY

2015
World Economic History Congress, Kyoto, Japan
Oppenheimer’s Table, Averill Park, NY

2014
Circling Towards A Disciplinary Chora, Averill Park, NY

2013
“Where Are The Utopian Visionaries?: Architecture of Social Exchange”- New York, NY

2012
Global Sustainability Design Fellowship Conference- New York, NY

2010
ACADIA Conference - Architecture In:Formation - New York, NY

Exhibitions


2016
Align and Construct, The Mill, NY
Sun Ship - Benefit Exhibition And Auction, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York, NY

2015
Casseopia: Constellation, The Mill, NY
Artists-In-Residence Summer Exhibition, The Mill, NY

2012
Cooper Union End of Year Exhibition, New York, NY

2010
Paul Rudolph Lower Manhattan Expressway, Houghton Gallery, New York, NY

Published Work


2019
Postal Demography, Postal History Journal, June Issue, Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris

2017
Oppenheimer’s Table - Film

2015
Modeling Postal History with Postal Numbers, Journal Of The Smithsonian Institute For Analytic Philately, November Issue, Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris

2013
Architecture In Formation: On The Nature Of Information In Digital Architecture, ed. Pablo Lorenzo Eiroa and Aaron Sprecher

2010
Life In:Formation, On Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture, Exhibition Catalogue (ACADIA 2010 - Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, Exhibition Catalog), ed. Pablo Lorenzo Eiroa and Aaron Sprecher

Certificates, Awards and Honors


2014
- William Cooper Mack Thesis Fellowship in Architecture
- Cooper Union Alumni Award
- Fellowship at Arts Letters and Numbers

2009
- Merit Based Full Tuition Scholarship, Cooper Union

2007
- 1st place in Geometrical and Mechanical Engineering Drawing Examination
- Distinction Honors in Caribbean Studies, Mathematics, Geometrical and Mechanical Engineering Drawing

2005
- 1st place in the Caribbean Region Technical Drawing Examination
- Distinction Honors in Physics, Technical Drawing, Additional Mathematics, Mathematics and Literature (Caribbean Examinations Council)
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