Founder

Founding organizations is an extension of my work as an architect, urbanist, and educator.

I create platforms to translate ideas, research, and urban thinking into public programs, education, and practice.

Rather than treating institutions as ends in themselves, I see them as instruments—structures that make knowledge, culture, and civic engagement durable and accessible.

Founding as Practice

My work as a founder focuses on building long-term platforms that operate across architecture, cities, education, and public discourse. These initiatives are designed to bridge gaps between academia, professional practice, and the public realm.

Each platform responds to a specific need:

• expanding access to architectural and urban knowledge

• creating new formats for education and public engagement

• connecting research with real-world urban challenges

Platforms Created

Build Tours

Build Tours is a platform for architecture, art, and city tours, offering curated experiences in New York and internationally. It brings architectural and urban knowledge into the public realm through walking tours, institutional collaborations, and professional programs.

Build Tours works with universities, cultural institutions, professionals, and the general public to explore cities as layered cultural and spatial constructs.

Build World

Build World is a platform for research, collaboration, and public discourse focused on cities, urban systems, and future challenges. It serves as a framework for interdisciplinary work connecting architecture, urbanism, technology, and policy.

Through Build World, I engage with global partners, institutions, and experts to develop ideas and initiatives around future cities, sustainability, and planetary urbanization.

Build Academy

Build Academy is an educational platform dedicated to architecture, cities, and interdisciplinary learning. It offers online and in-person formats that complement traditional academic education, reaching students, professionals, and broader audiences.

The platform reflects my commitment to expanding how architectural and urban knowledge is taught and shared beyond conventional institutional boundaries.

HAAUS

Harvard Architectural and Urban Society

Institutional and Civic Orientation

While these platforms operate independently, they are united by a shared orientation toward:

• education as a public good

• cities as cultural and civic projects

• long-term institutional thinking rather than short-term initiatives

They function as interfaces between research, practice, and society.

Governance and Leadership

As founder, I am directly involved in shaping the intellectual direction, partnerships, and strategic development of each platform. My role spans conceptual development, program design, and institutional leadership, ensuring alignment between mission, content, and public impact.

Why Platforms Matter

In an era of rapid urbanization, technological change, and institutional fragmentation, platforms play a critical role in sustaining knowledge, dialogue, and collective action.

Founding and leading such platforms is, for me, a way of extending architectural and urban practice beyond buildings and plans—toward the creation of enduring civic and educational infrastructures.

Collaboration

I collaborate with universities, cultural institutions, cities, and international organizations through these platforms.

For institutional partnerships, educational collaborations, or strategic initiatives, please get in touch via the contact page.