Directory

Industry Experience

• 2017 – present – ARCH CIRA, Cambridge MA
• 2015 – 2017 – EJA, Cambridge MA
• 2014 – 2015 – Isozaki, Aoki & Associates, Tokyo
• 2009 – 2011 – R&Sie(n) Architects, Paris
• 2008 – 2009 – dECOi, Cambridge MA
• 2007 – 2008 – Höweler+Yoon, Boston MA

Built work

• 2022 – Secret Garden, new 1500sf greenhouse and community-use classroom and landscape/exterior spaces in East Boston MA (with Jena Tegeler)
• 2022 – Black History In Action, historic preservation of a 1886 Black church in Cambridge MA, adaptation for use as arts and culture space

Exhibitions/Research

• 2021 – The Architects Collaborative 1945–1995: Tracing a Diffuse Architectural Authorship with James Heard and Emma Pfeiffer — Exhibition at Pinkcomma Gallery sponsored by The Graham Foundation and Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown
• 2019 – Bizarro Beach, Boston MA — Architectural installation commissioned by the ICA Boston
• ongoing – The Emerald Tutu — scientific research, prototyping, advocacy, and community work around nature-based infrastructure for coastal climate resilience

Publications

• 2022 – Face to Face (introduction to Wendy Jacob and Jeffrey Mansfield), Boston Art Review #8
• 2022 – Less than Heroic (interviewed by Dan Roche), New York Review of Architecture #25
• 2021 – Architectural Camouflage and the Class Dynamics of Housing, Art Papers 44.03
• 2020 – Template for a Cooperative Network of Small Architecture Practices, MAS Context
• 2019 – Loitering, Legibility, Disability with Emily Watlington, Art Papers online
• 2019 – Spaces of Labor, Architectural Labor #2
• 2019 – Performing Arts Access, Art Papers, 42.04
• 2018 – Signs and Architecture, Pre-Vinylite Society Journal #1
• 2018 – The Emerald Tutu, project profile, Boston Art Review #2
• 2018 – Blueprint for Counter-Education , Big Red & Shiny online
• 2018 – Semiotic Structure as Context: Inscriptions at Harvard GSD , Big Red & Shiny online
• 2017 – Lobbying for Value with Peggy Deamer and The Architecture Lobby, ARQ #97
• 2012 – 2014 – Reverse History, Mixed Metaphors, The A and the E, Nova Organa #1, #2, #4

Awards

• 2019 – American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) innovation award in Sustainable Engineering for The Emerald Tutu

Professional Affiliations

• American Institute of Architects
• Boston Society of Architects
• The Architecture Lobby

Connect

• arch-cira.com
• Instagram: @arch_cira