My work is shaped by three professional contexts.
In Colombia, at Rodríguez Valencia Arquitectos (obsess with composition), I developed a rigorous approach to form—grounded in volumetric clarity, structural logic, and local constructability. In Spain, through my engagement with RCR Arquitectes (mastering one material), I explored architecture as a precise material practice, where industrialized systems are refined and carefully integrated into the landscape.
In the United States, my work expanded to engage the realities of practice: budgets, codes, delivery systems, and digital coordination. This trajectory was reframed through my thesis on Houston’s Third Ward, developed during the European Master of Urbanism (Barcelona, Leuven, and Venice), where I investigated transit-oriented communities, redlining, urban form, social infrastructure, and the public role of architecture within a historically layered context.
That work led me to Moody Nolan, where I became a registered architect in Texas and have led civic projects such as the MLK Library in Las Vegas and the Memorial Groves Visitor Center in Houston—projects shaped by public use, multiple stakeholders, and their urban context.
Across these experiences, my work moves through rigor and attention, driven by a moral ambition: to use architecture as a tool to counter fragmentation and, in its own scale, to pull our ways of living away from trajectories of isolation and decline. I am interested in how civic architecture and urban environments can support more humane, connected, and resilient forms of collective life.
I extend this through mentorship with NOMA and LIA-AIA Houston chapters, and through independent practice via Design Works, Wellness Works, and Tempo Libero, engaging interdisciplinary and client-focused work.