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Welcome to Our Urban Palimpsest, a newsletter about architecture, design, and real estate development in Los Angeles.

The focus will be on missing middle housing in L.A. and the myriad issues around its design and development. I will approach it from various perspectives with architecture and development being the overarching rubrics: design and finance. Housing being what it is, this will at times be a place for general reflection and at times mean that I will nerd out in excessive detail over certain elements. In either case, I aim to make it enjoyable and educational.

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I am a L.A.-native and building aficionado with experience designing and developing residential projects in and around Los Angeles. To see what I’m working on currently check out TALLER and Ascent.

I am a California licensed architect, experienced developer, and a Lecturing Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona. I hold a Master of Design Studies degree concentrated in Real Estate Development from Harvard University, earned with distinction, and a Bachelor of Architecture degree, earned with honors, from Cal Poly Pomona.

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