My teaching philosophy

Thinking made visible

My research looks at how architects think while they design. In the studio I try to make that process visible: sketches, models and conversations are treated as evidence of thinking, not only as steps towards a final drawing.

Context first

Good buildings and good cities start from the place they are in. I ask students to read a site, its people and its history closely before they propose anything, and to keep testing their ideas against that context.

Conversation, not correction

Feedback works best as a dialogue. I ask questions before I give answers, so that students learn to explain and defend their own decisions.

Tools in service of ideas

Digital tools, from parametric modelling to virtual reality, are part of how architects work today. I teach them as ways to explore and communicate a design, never as a replacement for the idea itself.