Website Update


  • DATE
    February 2025

Over a few months I rebuilt this website from scratch, by hand, as a static site. My first website at this domain was a basic portfolio of my academic architecture work. Over the years, it underwent a few design changes and expanded to include photography as a sub-site. Now, it's expanded again.


Here's the basic structure:


ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN is my portfolio of architecture and design work from professional and academic circles. It includes professional projects from current and previous architecture firms I've worked at, my thesis project and accompanying research from graduate school, and my capstone design project from undergrad, among others.


PHOTOGRAPHY is a regularly updating gallery of my film and digital photography dating back to 2016. It's mostly travel, urban exploration, street photography, and cars.


BITS & PIECES is where you are now. It's a landing page for everything else I'm doing that doesn't fit into the previous two categories - music, games, graphic design projects, things I'm watching/playing/listening to. It also serves as an index of the other creative platforms where I post my work, and other creators' projects I've been lucky enough to be a part of.


ABOUT has more info about me, where I'm currently working, and how to get in touch with me.


This project was borne out of a number of ideas:


  • - an excuse to properly teach myself HTML and CSS; finding purpose in the slow, methodical, intentional, manual process of coding and building a website; understanding how it's structured and styled in its entirety; making it as small and lean and light as possible

  • - wanting full ownership of my data and content; not being beholden to a specific platform or website builder

  • - frustration and disillusionment with social media amid its steady enshittification and rapid burial underneath an avalanche of AI slop

  • - yearning for a return to the agency and simplicity of Web 1.0; re-evaluating my digital footprint

This is my little corner of the internet, and this is what I was thinking about when I rebuilt it. I want this site to be both a hub for everything I'm doing and a digital representation of my design ethos: clear, legible, nice to look at, exactly as complicated as it needs to be. I'm sure I'll keep poking at it and tweaking it as time goes on, as I tend to do.