I reconstruct a landscape's design history through historical maps, estate archives, aerial photography, and site surveys, tracking changes to layout, planting schemes, water features, and boundaries across different ownership periods. I can identify surviving historical elements versus later interventions, and trace design authorship back to specific landscape architects or garden styles where the archival record allows it. This gives designers and land managers a documented basis for conservation planning, restoration decisions, or adapting a landscape while respecting its historical structure.

I research the planning history of urban areas through archival maps, municipal records, and comparative case studies, tracing how zoning, infrastructure, and building typologies have changed over successive planning phases. I can document why specific urban forms exist — which decisions, regulations, or precedents shaped a district's layout — and identify overlooked historical layers that may be relevant to a current redevelopment or heritage designation. This research can support studios working on urban renewal, heritage-sensitive masterplanning, or public space redesign.

I combine academic research into contemporary art with hands-on experience in the art and design world — from museum and gallery contexts to design journalism and cultural events. I can research and document an artist's or movement's material practice and historical context. This is useful for design studios working on cultural projects, exhibition content, or design-adjacent publications that need accurate art-historical grounding.