Her background prior to architecture is as a cellist with a BA from Oberlin College, and she holds an MArch from the GSD at Harvard University. She has worked with Foster + Partners in London and Antoine Predock Architect in Albuquerque. She is the author of Interpreting Site: Studies in Perception, Representation, and Design. Her collaborative practice, Dual Ecologies, focuses on site and infrastructural relationships and their coincident architectural and tectonic response.