Map / Teaching
Courses, seminars, and field-based teaching across architectural history and research.
01 / Approach
Helping students learn to read architecture for themselves.
My teaching begins with close observation and develops through discussion, interpretation, and making. I am interested in how students come to notice what is easy to overlook in a building, a drawing, or a text, and in helping them turn those observations into writing, drawing, conversation, and other forms of visual or spatial thinking. Across seminars, history courses, and field visits, these different modes of inquiry give students multiple ways to develop and communicate architectural understanding.
02 / Courses & teaching roles
04 coursesARCH 601
In this graduate seminar, students examined how architectural questions are translated into research questions, methods, and forms of inquiry. I facilitated seminar discussions, contributed to course materials and assignments, mentored students as they connected research to design practice, and helped coordinate visiting speakers.
ARCH 500
Students developed architectural arguments through research, writing, presentations, and visual analysis. I provided feedback on their research, written work, and visual communication, and facilitated class discussions that helped students connect close observation of buildings and images to broader historical interpretations and communicate those arguments clearly.
AAH 120
Each week, I led a one-hour discussion section that moved from a short framing explanation into group discussion and visual exercises. Through drawing and sketching, I guided students in looking closely at the week’s architectural material and translating their observations into visual form.
ARCH 445 / LA 497
Field visits across Chicago made direct observation central to how students studied Prairie School architecture and landscape. I helped coordinate the visits and collaboratively prepare course materials, guided on-site observation and sketching, and supported students as they developed assignments, presentations, and folios from the field-based work.