Her work –primarily in Florence and for public clients– consisted of master planning and urban design, institutional, mixed-use and social housing projects, and adaptive reuse of historic buildings. During her time in Italy she also started her ongoing collaboration with Rossiprodi Associati . In 1996 she was a founding partner of RBGC – Architecture, Research, Urbanism – in Charlottesville VA. She was lead designer for renovations, additions and new mixed-use infill buildings in Charlottesville’s Historic Districts, as well as for residential Planned Unit Developments and community design projects with local developers and non-profit groups. In 2010 she designed the first certified Passive House in Virginia.