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Permeable paver construction in Boxville Marketplace for David Brown's "18 of a Kind" through The Available City. Project with Adam Maserow. 2025.

Permeable paver construction in Boxville Marketplace for David Brown's "18 of a Kind" through The Available City. Project with Adam Maserow. 2025.

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Phasing strategy with Adam Maserow for Boxville Marketplace. Render by Image on the Left (Glen Marquardt).

Phasing strategy with Adam Maserow for Boxville Marketplace. Render by Image on the Left (Glen Marquardt).

Conceptual drawing with Adam Maserow for Boxville Marketplace, 2025.

Conceptual drawing with Adam Maserow for Boxville Marketplace, 2025.

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Conceptual drawing with Adam Maserow for Boxville Marketplace, 2025.

Conceptual drawing with Adam Maserow for Boxville Marketplace, 2025.

Inaugural exhibition at MAS Context for David Brown's "18 of a Kind" through The Available City. Ribbon drawing for Boxville by FLYHALF (Adam Maserow & Isabel Strauss).

Inaugural exhibition at MAS Context for David Brown's "18 of a Kind" through The Available City. Ribbon drawing for Boxville by FLYHALF (Adam Maserow & Isabel Strauss).

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Essay in "Making Home" edited by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Christina L. De León and Michelle Joan Wilkinson.

Essay in "Making Home" edited by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Christina L. De León and Michelle Joan Wilkinson.

“Derrick Bell’s Interest Convergence Theory,” in Margin & Text, Princeton Architectural Press .

“Derrick Bell’s Interest Convergence Theory,” in Margin & Text, Princeton Architectural Press .

Finalist entry for Rotch Travelling Scholarship 2024.

Finalist entry for Rotch Travelling Scholarship 2024.

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Finalist entry for Rotch Travelling Scholarship 2024.

Finalist entry for Rotch Travelling Scholarship 2024.

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"Sans Spectacle" for Architectural Record, 2023

"Sans Spectacle" for Architectural Record, 2023

Case Study House, Chicago, with Riff Studio, 2023. Renders by Image on the Left (Glen Marquardt).  Supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Case Study House, Chicago, with Riff Studio, 2023. Renders by Image on the Left (Glen Marquardt). Supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

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A Window (Detail) From the Future, with Riff Studio, 2023. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.

A Window (Detail) From the Future, with Riff Studio, 2023. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.

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Hyde Park Living Room, 2024 View fullsize

Hyde Park Living Room, 2024

Hyde Park Kitchen, 2023 View fullsize

Hyde Park Kitchen, 2023

Mecca Tile. Permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Object 2022.2.

Mecca Tile. Permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Object 2022.2.

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concept for the "family village" / collage made from adler & sullivan row house plan View fullsize

concept for the "family village" / collage made from adler & sullivan row house plan

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chicago land inventory map

"Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago's South Side" at the Graham Foundation Madlener House, 2021. Photographs courtesy of Nathan Keay.

"Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago's South Side" at the Graham Foundation Madlener House, 2021. Photographs courtesy of Nathan Keay.

"Family Village" front elevation, 2020 View fullsize

"Family Village" front elevation, 2020

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"Family Village" plan

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Plan. 12 x 12 x ½ in.

ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF
Including elements from Mickalene Thomas, Landscape Majestic, 2010; Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Something Split and New, 2013 and Thread, 2012; Richard Nickel, Louis H. Sullivan’s Henry Babson View fullsize

Plan. 12 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF Including elements from Mickalene Thomas, Landscape Majestic, 2010; Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Something Split and New, 2013 and Thread, 2012; Richard Nickel, Louis H. Sullivan’s Henry Babson Residence, 230 N. Longcommon Road, Riverside, Illinois, designed or built ca. 1908–09, demolished 1960; Photographer unknown, Grandma Ida on Martha’s Vineyard, date unknown; Paul Strauss, Daniel with bicycle, date unknown. Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Object 2024.121.

Pos
12 x 15.4 x ½ in.
ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF
Including elements from Mickalene Thomas, Interior: Striped Foyer, 2011; Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Morris Selz Residence, 1717
S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, designed or buil View fullsize

Pos 12 x 15.4 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF Including elements from Mickalene Thomas, Interior: Striped Foyer, 2011; Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Morris Selz Residence, 1717 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, designed or built 1883, demolished 1967; Selfies, Isabel, 2019 and Marlies, 2017. Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Object 2024.121.

Mirror
12 x 15.1 x ½ in.
ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF
Including elements from Nick Cave, Architectural Forest, 2011;
Mickalene Thomas, Lounging, Standing, Looking, 2012 and Clarivel #6, 2019; Lorna Simpson, Earth & Sky #30, 2016; Sadie Barnet View fullsize

Mirror 12 x 15.1 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF Including elements from Nick Cave, Architectural Forest, 2011; Mickalene Thomas, Lounging, Standing, Looking, 2012 and Clarivel #6, 2019; Lorna Simpson, Earth & Sky #30, 2016; Sadie Barnette, The New Eagle Creek Saloon, 2019; Romare Bearden, Jazz II Deluxe, 1980; Deborah Roberts, Let Them Be Children, 2018; Norman Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With, 1964; Richard Nickel, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan’s James Charnley Residence, 1365 N Astor Street, Chicago, Illinois, designed or built 1891–92. Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Object 2024.121.

Perch
12 x 15.6 x ½ in.
ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF
Including elements from Bisa Butler, The Tea, 2017, Four Little Girls, September 15, 1963, 2018, and Mannish Boy, 2018; Kerry James
Marshall, 7am Sunday Morning, 2003; Richard Nickel, Louis View fullsize

Perch 12 x 15.6 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF Including elements from Bisa Butler, The Tea, 2017, Four Little Girls, September 15, 1963, 2018, and Mannish Boy, 2018; Kerry James Marshall, 7am Sunday Morning, 2003; Richard Nickel, Louis H. Sullivan’s Henry Babson Residence, 230 N. Longcommon Road, Riverside, Illinois, designed or built ca. 1908–09, demolished 1960; Richard Nickel, Crombie Taylor’s Grant Place Apartments, 550 W. Grant Place, Chicago, Illinois, designed or built 1961, demolished 2007. Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Object 2024.121.

Gaze. 12 x 15 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Howardena Pindell, Untitled #51, 2010; Lorna Simpson, Earth & Sky, #30, 2016; Richard Nickel, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Avery Coonley Residence, 300 Scottswood Road, River View fullsize

Gaze. 12 x 15 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Howardena Pindell, Untitled #51, 2010; Lorna Simpson, Earth & Sky, #30, 2016; Richard Nickel, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Avery Coonley Residence, 300 Scottswood Road, Riverside, Illinois, designed or built 1907.

Void. 15.2 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Mark Bradford, Helter Skelter I, 2007; Richard
Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Martin Barbe Residence, 3157 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, designed or built 1884, View fullsize

Void. 15.2 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Mark Bradford, Helter Skelter I, 2007; Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Martin Barbe Residence, 3157 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, designed or built 1884, demolished 1963; Richard Nickel, Louis H. Sullivan’s Carson Pirie Scott and Company Store, 1 S. State Street, designed or built 1899–1903.

Spill. 12 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Kerry James Marshall, School of Beauty,
School of Culture, 2012; Mark Bradford, The World is Flat, 2007; Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Cottage and Outbuildings, View fullsize

Spill. 12 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Kerry James Marshall, School of Beauty, School of Culture, 2012; Mark Bradford, The World is Flat, 2007; Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Cottage and Outbuildings, 100 Holcomb Boulevard, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, designed or built 1890, destroyed 2005; Richard Nickel, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lake Park Project House, 4575 S. Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, designed or built 1891–92, demolished 1970.

Study. 15.2 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2008; Theaster Gates, Ground Rules, 2015 and Stony Island Arts Bank, designed or built
2015; Ebony G. Patterson, …buried again to carry on gr View fullsize

Study. 15.2 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2008; Theaster Gates, Ground Rules, 2015 and Stony Island Arts Bank, designed or built 2015; Ebony G. Patterson, …buried again to carry on growing…, 2015; Richard Nickel, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan’s Charnley Residence, 1365 N. Astor Street, Chicago, Illinois, designed or built 1891–92.

Portal. 12 x 15.1 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF Including elements from Kehinde Wiley, Barack Hussein Obama, born
4 Aug 1961, 2018; Nick Cave, Tondo, 2018; Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Samuel Stern Residence, Adler & Sullivan, 29 View fullsize

Portal. 12 x 15.1 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF Including elements from Kehinde Wiley, Barack Hussein Obama, born 4 Aug 1961, 2018; Nick Cave, Tondo, 2018; Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Samuel Stern Residence, Adler & Sullivan, 2963 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, designed or built 1885, demolished 1959; Russell Lee, Adler & Sullivan’s Anshe Ma'ariv Synagogue (Pilgrim Baptist Church), 3301 S. Indiana Avenue, designed or built 1890–91.

Wander. 12 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Mark Bradford, Pickett's Charge, 2017; Deborah Roberts, Either by the hawk or by the dove; I am the seed
and the bloom; Sewed together, 2018; Lorna Simpson, Speechl View fullsize

Wander. 12 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Mark Bradford, Pickett's Charge, 2017; Deborah Roberts, Either by the hawk or by the dove; I am the seed and the bloom; Sewed together, 2018; Lorna Simpson, Speechless, 2017; Ebony G. Patterson, …to dig between the cuts, beneath the leaves, below the soil…, 2019; Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Martin Barbe Residence, 3157 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, designed or built 1884, demolished 1963.

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Panoramas courtesy of David Travis. View fullsize

Panoramas courtesy of David Travis.

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"Architecture of Reparations" at Bronzville Artist Lofts for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial, featuring work by Kofi Akakpo, Rekha Auguste-Nelson, William Boles, Calvin Boyd, Sean Canty, Darien Carr, Amir Denzel Hall, DJ Eway, Evalyn Gates, Ch View fullsize

"Architecture of Reparations" at Bronzville Artist Lofts for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial, featuring work by Kofi Akakpo, Rekha Auguste-Nelson, William Boles, Calvin Boyd, Sean Canty, Darien Carr, Amir Denzel Hall, DJ Eway, Evalyn Gates, Christina Graydon, Brayton Gregory, Camila Guerrero, Daniel Haidermota, Whitney Hansley, Aryan Khalighy, Shen Li, Celeste Martore, Adam Maserow, Jaline McPherson, Marcus Mello, Zena Mengesha, Andrew M. Ngure, Omotara Oluwafemi, Naila Opiangah, Farnoosh Rafaie, and Gabriel Ramos.

"Architecture of Reparations" exhibited in "Heritage in Common" at Arc en Rêve Centre d'Architecture, 2022.

"Architecture of Reparations" exhibited in "Heritage in Common" at Arc en Rêve Centre d'Architecture, 2022.

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"Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago's South Side" at EXPO Chicago for the Weinberg / Newton Gallery alongsideTonika Lewis Johnson. 2022. View fullsize

"Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago's South Side" at EXPO Chicago for the Weinberg / Newton Gallery alongsideTonika Lewis Johnson. 2022.

"Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago's South Side" for "Key Change" at the Weinberg / Newton Gallery, alongside Tonika Lewis Johnson, Gabrielle Garland, Maymay Jumsai, and Southside Home Movie Project. 2022.

"Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago's South Side" for "Key Change" at the Weinberg / Newton Gallery, alongside Tonika Lewis Johnson, Gabrielle Garland, Maymay Jumsai, and Southside Home Movie Project. 2022.

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"Architecture of Reparations" at the Chicago Cultural Center, 2022

"Architecture of Reparations" at the Chicago Cultural Center, 2022

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"Architecture of Reparations" at CAB STUDIO featuring work by Kofi Akakpo, Rekha Auguste-Nelson, William Boles, Calvin Boyd, Sean Canty, Darien Carr, Amir Denzel Hall, DJ Eway, Evalyn Gates, Christina Graydon, Brayton Gregory, Camila Guerrero, Daniel View fullsize

"Architecture of Reparations" at CAB STUDIO featuring work by Kofi Akakpo, Rekha Auguste-Nelson, William Boles, Calvin Boyd, Sean Canty, Darien Carr, Amir Denzel Hall, DJ Eway, Evalyn Gates, Christina Graydon, Brayton Gregory, Camila Guerrero, Daniel Haidermota, Whitney Hansley, Aryan Khalighy, Shen Li, Celeste Martore, Adam Maserow, Jaline McPherson, Marcus Mello, Zena Mengesha, Andrew M. Ngure, Omotara Oluwafemi, Naila Opiangah, Farnoosh Rafaie, and Gabriel Ramos.

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Contribution in Disc Journal 2 with Adam Maserow, edited by Ian Erickson. View fullsize

Contribution in Disc Journal 2 with Adam Maserow, edited by Ian Erickson.

Proposal for parking lot sculpture and seating, 2021. View fullsize

Proposal for parking lot sculpture and seating, 2021.

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Cambridge Cohousing for Lütjens Padmanabhan Design Studio at Harvard GSD. Model making during COVID lockdown.
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Cambridge Cohousing for Lütjens Padmanabhan Design Studio at Harvard GSD. Model making during COVID lockdown.

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facade precedent: Palazzo Strozzi, 1489 View fullsize

facade precedent: Palazzo Strozzi, 1489

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post bat twin dings with Lauren Choi View fullsize

post bat twin dings with Lauren Choi

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students in conversation with Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons View fullsize

students in conversation with Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons

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material mockup at SOM

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Permeable paver construction in Boxville Marketplace for David Brown's "18 of a Kind" through The Available City. Project with Adam Maserow. 2025.
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Phasing strategy with Adam Maserow for Boxville Marketplace. Render by Image on the Left (Glen Marquardt).
Conceptual drawing with Adam Maserow for Boxville Marketplace, 2025.
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Conceptual drawing with Adam Maserow for Boxville Marketplace, 2025.
Inaugural exhibition at MAS Context for David Brown's "18 of a Kind" through The Available City. Ribbon drawing for Boxville by FLYHALF (Adam Maserow & Isabel Strauss).
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Essay in "Making Home" edited by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Christina L. De León and Michelle Joan Wilkinson.
“Derrick Bell’s Interest Convergence Theory,” in Margin & Text, Princeton Architectural Press .
Finalist entry for Rotch Travelling Scholarship 2024.
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Finalist entry for Rotch Travelling Scholarship 2024.
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"Sans Spectacle" for Architectural Record, 2023
Case Study House, Chicago, with Riff Studio, 2023. Renders by Image on the Left (Glen Marquardt).  Supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
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A Window (Detail) From the Future, with Riff Studio, 2023. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
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Hyde Park Living Room, 2024
Hyde Park Kitchen, 2023
Mecca Tile. Permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Object 2022.2.
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concept for the "family village" / collage made from adler & sullivan row house plan
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chicago land inventory map
"Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago's South Side" at the Graham Foundation Madlener House, 2021. Photographs courtesy of Nathan Keay.
"Family Village" front elevation, 2020
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"Family Village" plan
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Plan. 12 x 12 x ½ in.

ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF
Including elements from Mickalene Thomas, Landscape Majestic, 2010; Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Something Split and New, 2013 and Thread, 2012; Richard Nickel, Louis H. Sullivan’s Henry Babson
Pos
12 x 15.4 x ½ in.
ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF
Including elements from Mickalene Thomas, Interior: Striped Foyer, 2011; Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Morris Selz Residence, 1717
S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, designed or buil
Mirror
12 x 15.1 x ½ in.
ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF
Including elements from Nick Cave, Architectural Forest, 2011;
Mickalene Thomas, Lounging, Standing, Looking, 2012 and Clarivel #6, 2019; Lorna Simpson, Earth & Sky #30, 2016; Sadie Barnet
Perch
12 x 15.6 x ½ in.
ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF
Including elements from Bisa Butler, The Tea, 2017, Four Little Girls, September 15, 1963, 2018, and Mannish Boy, 2018; Kerry James
Marshall, 7am Sunday Morning, 2003; Richard Nickel, Louis
Gaze. 12 x 15 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Howardena Pindell, Untitled #51, 2010; Lorna Simpson, Earth & Sky, #30, 2016; Richard Nickel, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Avery Coonley Residence, 300 Scottswood Road, River
Void. 15.2 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Mark Bradford, Helter Skelter I, 2007; Richard
Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Martin Barbe Residence, 3157 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, designed or built 1884,
Spill. 12 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Kerry James Marshall, School of Beauty,
School of Culture, 2012; Mark Bradford, The World is Flat, 2007; Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Cottage and Outbuildings,
Study. 15.2 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2008; Theaster Gates, Ground Rules, 2015 and Stony Island Arts Bank, designed or built
2015; Ebony G. Patterson, …buried again to carry on gr
Portal. 12 x 15.1 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF Including elements from Kehinde Wiley, Barack Hussein Obama, born
4 Aug 1961, 2018; Nick Cave, Tondo, 2018; Richard Nickel, Adler & Sullivan’s Samuel Stern Residence, Adler & Sullivan, 29
Wander. 12 x 12 x ½ in. ChromaLuxe Aluminum photo panel, MDF. Including elements from Mark Bradford, Pickett's Charge, 2017; Deborah Roberts, Either by the hawk or by the dove; I am the seed
and the bloom; Sewed together, 2018; Lorna Simpson, Speechl
Strauss_Up from the Past_GF_Courtesy of Nathan Keay.jpg
Panoramas courtesy of David Travis.
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"Architecture of Reparations" at Bronzville Artist Lofts for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial, featuring work by Kofi Akakpo, Rekha Auguste-Nelson, William Boles, Calvin Boyd, Sean Canty, Darien Carr, Amir Denzel Hall, DJ Eway, Evalyn Gates, Ch
"Architecture of Reparations" exhibited in "Heritage in Common" at Arc en Rêve Centre d'Architecture, 2022.
CMMN_Isabel Strauss_2.jpg
CMMN_Isabel Strauss_3.jpg
"Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago's South Side" at EXPO Chicago for the Weinberg / Newton Gallery alongsideTonika Lewis Johnson. 2022.
"Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago's South Side" for "Key Change" at the Weinberg / Newton Gallery, alongside Tonika Lewis Johnson, Gabrielle Garland, Maymay Jumsai, and Southside Home Movie Project. 2022.
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"Architecture of Reparations" at the Chicago Cultural Center, 2022
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"Architecture of Reparations" at CAB STUDIO featuring work by Kofi Akakpo, Rekha Auguste-Nelson, William Boles, Calvin Boyd, Sean Canty, Darien Carr, Amir Denzel Hall, DJ Eway, Evalyn Gates, Christina Graydon, Brayton Gregory, Camila Guerrero, Daniel
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Contribution in Disc Journal 2 with Adam Maserow, edited by Ian Erickson.
Proposal for parking lot sculpture and seating, 2021.
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Cambridge Cohousing for Lütjens Padmanabhan Design Studio at Harvard GSD. Model making during COVID lockdown.
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facade precedent: Palazzo Strozzi, 1489
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process
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concept
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post bat twin dings with Lauren Choi
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logo for LMM
students in conversation with Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons
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material mockup at SOM
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