I am an architect, software designer, and currently a Ph.D. candidate in Critical Studies in Architecture at UCLA. My work deals with concepts and practices of information technolology in architectural history, theory, and curatorship. I’m interested in new modes of urban and landscape representation latent in recent information technology paradigms such as context awareness and ubiquitous computing. My current research is on the development of the project for the Centre Pompidou. I have also been looking at the invention of the archaeological park in 19th century Rome and its relationship to an emerging information culture.
Recent projects & activites
Building on work with the Electronic Book Review, I have recently started in an advisory role with the Electronic Literature Organization, which includes the identification of short and long term metadata strategies for the archiving and dissemination of electronic literature.
I am currently working on my doctoral dissertation, which is on the 1971 design competition for the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It examines the way in which architecture was conceived as a technology for the organization and dissemination of cultural information.
I have been involved on an ongoing basis with the Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design in the construction of an open software application framework called NETLab Connect that allows students and designers to develop sensor and microcontroller-based applications. This work came out of my earlier advisory and teaching involvement in a course called The New Ecology of Things sponsored by Sun Microsystems Labs that investigated the design potential of context-aware computing. A spin-off from this course was my recent collaboration with a local artist on an installation using light air robots.
Working with the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center I recently completed a new web database of American women architectural practitioners in the 20th c.
In the Spring of 2007 I gave a paper on the application design of the electronic book review at the HASTAC 2007 conference "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface" called "A Map of Relations: the Software and Data Architecture of EBR 4.0." I also gave a talk called "Representing Epistephilia: Roman topography, spatial markup, and the Semantic Web" at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia.