(Con)temporary Architectures of Emergence
I am an architectural and spatial designer working across architecture, exhibition design, scenography, fabrication and participatory design-build practice. I hold a Bachelor of Architecture from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City University of New York, with additional studies at ETSAB in Barcelona and the Moscow Architectural Institute.
My professional experience spans architectural offices, galleries, and performance spaces in New York, Moscow and Costa Rica. I currently work at Triumph Gallery in Moscow, where I contribute to the design and production of exhibitions. Previously, I worked in architectural design at BKSK Architects, stage design and concert production in Brooklyn, architectural fabrication and carpentry, and freelance design.
A defining part of my practice has been learning through direct engagement with materials, communities and their environments. I participated in the 2025 Venice Studio summer programme with Herzog & de Meuron, was part of a design-build initiative with TallerKEN in Costa Rica, and engaged with natural construction through a cob and adobe building workshop in Chiang Rai, Thailand.
My interests lie in the intersection of architecture, ecology, collective experience and cultural production. I believe that spaces carry emotional memory, and that collaborative acts of making deepen it, creating new forms of belonging and awareness.
In light of the environmental crisis, questions of place, mobility, and belonging have become apparent. New forms of intentional movement have emerged through residencies, workshops, ecological camps, festivals, and collective retreats, creating communities that exist beyond conventional ideas of settlement. These temporary gatherings challenge the idea that belonging depends on permanence, and show it can arise through shared ideas, experiences, rituals, collective labour and care.
My inquiry grows from this observation. How can temporary architectures become infrastructure for communities in motion?
Besides considering temporary structures as short-lived interventions, I see them as living ecosystems that support learning, collaboration, and ecological awareness. I am particularly interested in the spatial conditions that foster meaningful interactions.
The proposal is rooted in my own experience of participating in international initiatives such as workshops, design-build residencies, travels, and pilgrimages. These experiences showed me how entering unfamiliar environments and participating in it can reshape both individual and collective identities. They also prompted me to question what it means to belong to a place without possessing it, and how architecture can support that relationship.
Through this research, I aim to identify recurring spatial and social patterns across these ecosystems. This may lead to the development of an adaptable design language that shapes in an atlas and toolkit of principles for temporary architectures that cultivate valuable experiences.
The outcome is envisioned as an illustrated atlas that evolves into a participatory exhibition. It will invite reflection on the politics and possibilities of mobility: who has access to these spaces, how are they sustained and relate to local communities, and how temporary architectures might move toward more reciprocal forms of coexistence and care.