I have always been interested in places.

Why does one street feel alive while another feels empty? Why does one park become part of everyday neighborhood life while another becomes a destination for an entire city? Why do certain landscapes stay in our memory long after we leave them?

These questions have followed me through different cities, schools, studios, and projects, from San Francisco to Providence and Massachusetts, and now to Abu Dhabi.

I studied Landscape Architecture in San Francisco, where both the school and the city became part of my education. Beyond the studio, I spent a great deal of time walking through neighborhoods and visiting parks, plazas, waterfronts, gardens, streets, and other types of open space.

During that period, I also worked at a landscape architecture firm, assisting with commercial, institutional, and residential projects. The work included office campuses, landscapes built over structures, residential gardens, and pool landscapes. I contributed from design development through construction drawings, which gave me an early understanding of how an idea moves from an initial concept toward something that can actually be built.

I later moved across the country to Providence, Rhode Island, for graduate school.

There, my interests became more focused on identity, spatial experience, and the way outdoor environments can communicate something larger than themselves. I explored these ideas through independent studies, precedent research, drawing, design testing, and thesis work.

During graduate school, I also worked within the academic environment and as a design intern at a landscape architecture firm.

After graduation, I continued working as a landscape designer in Massachusetts.

My work ranged from intimate gardens in historic settings to large urban waterfronts, residential communities, campuses, and master plans. The projects included both public and private work across the United States, Asia, and the Middle East.

Working closely with design directors and multidisciplinary teams also strengthened my interest in visual storytelling. Drawings, diagrams, and 3D visualization became more than presentation tools for me. They became ways of developing ideas, explaining spatial relationships, and connecting an early design vision with the realities of implementation.

Today, I live and work in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

My work has expanded into Urban Planning, Master Planning, Urban Design, Public Realm Design, and Landscape Design.

The scale has changed, but many of the questions that first interested me remain the same.

How do people experience a place?

What makes a neighborhood recognizable?

How should buildings, streets, landscape, movement, climate, culture, and public life work together?

Why do certain environments feel as though they belong exactly where they are, while others could seemingly exist anywhere?

Working across different places has made me less interested in finding a universal formula for good design. Instead, I have become more interested in understanding context and why certain decisions make sense in one place but not necessarily in another.

That is also why I am starting this blog.

I do not see it simply as a portfolio of projects.

I see it more as a personal field notebook about Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, cities, and the places I encounter.

I want to revisit places I have lived in, studied, worked in, and traveled through. I want to look at parks, streets, neighborhoods, waterfronts, gardens, buildings, plants, materials, infrastructure, and sometimes very small details that influence how we experience a place.

Some posts may be analytical. Others may begin with an old photograph, a drawing, a memory, or something I noticed while walking through a city.

The subject may sometimes be a major urban project. At other times, it may simply be a street, a tree, a bench, or a particular view that made me stop and look twice.

What interests me is not only what a place looks like.

I want to understand why it became that way.

This blog is where I want to keep looking, documenting, questioning, and learning.

This is where I begin.