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Department of Architecture building designed by Richard Edwin Vrooman at Baba’s school, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

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Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, the National Parliament building of Bangladesh, designed by Louis Kahn. Touring the interior was a dream I’m still thinking about ✨

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Bait Ur Rouf Mosque in Faridabad, a neighborhood of Dhaka. Designed by architect Marina Tabassum and 2016 winner of an Aga Khan award for architecture.

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This morning’s scene at the Banani DOHS Community Center in Dhaka

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Landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh for the first time in 11 years.

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This year I’ve had inconsistent waves of “making” for my own projects, but have been incredibly grateful to show up and create/craft things for the wedding days of some very close friends. I feel honored to have been trusted with projects like these that hold so much meaning and were integral parts to their special moments.

Samm and I have been friends since high school and she asked me nearly a year before her October wedding if I could turn her mom’s wedding headpiece into a hair accessory for her own special day. I said yes right away and was honored to do so, but then I realized it was my first time taking some old and transforming it into something new since I usually work with craft materials from scratch. I felt a responsibility to treat both things with integrity and felt afraid to start the process, but once I did I realized I just had to approach the disassembling the same way I did the assembling…with care and time, but not fear. I couldn’t make the new hair piece if I stayed fearful of touching the old, and that felt like a larger lesson for myself even outside of this lovely beaded context.

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Gropius House living room in Lincoln, MA

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Fall colors in Kingston; Hotel Kinsley; Opening Soon…

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Naoshima 

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The Capri Hotel in Ojai