I’m honored to be selected as a recipient of the 2025 Center for Architecture Design Scholarship, awarded by the Center for Architecture and the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
This scholarship supports students pursuing their first professional degree in architecture or a related design field in New York State. I’m deeply grateful to my professors and the Pratt School of Architecture for nominating me and supporting me throughout this process.
For the submission, I presented a portfolio of three academic projects that explore how architecture can respond to people, context, and action:
Bushwick Housing Project – Superimposed Disorder looks at how housing in dense urban areas can adapt to changing living patterns.
Redhook Middle School – Along the Axis focuses on the cultural and communal elements that shape the Red Hook neighborhood and how learning spaces can reflect those identities.
Creating Archive – The Lost Archive reimagines the archive as a place for physical interaction, inspired by the form and structure of server racks.
These projects were selected because they represent how I approach design, with questions rather than answers. I believe architecture isn’t just about solving problems, but about listening: to place, to people, and to the stories that already exist.
This recognition means a lot to me, especially as I continue to explore what it means to design with empathy, clarity, and purpose that I have been pursuing since the first day I decided to pursue spatial design.
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