Joe’s professional focus is on reintroducing thoughtful, reasonable and contextual design as a profit-inducing component of small-scale urban residential developments. Through this, Joe hopes to affect positive change on the urban fabric of his beloved New York and reposition the architect as a central player in urban multi-family developments. Joe was born and raised in Ohio and attended the University of Cincinnati for his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Architecture. As a child, Joe ate so much chicken his mother thought he might wake up with feathers one day, so this design competition is near and dear to his heart.