Celeste graduated from Virginia Tech, Magna Cum Laude, with a Bachelor of Architecture in 2025. In school, Celeste took a semester to study in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland at the Steger Center for International Scholarship. This opportunity transformed her architectural thinking into one rooted in the intersection of form, function and materiality. She is greatly interested in exploring how architecture can form the experience of an individual and elicit a sense of community seen through a new lens. In Celeste’s work, she explores the collaging of hand and digital representation tools and plays with the integration of art and architecture to convey a project’s concept and spatial qualities in a playful and profound way.

Celeste was awarded as a finalist for Virginia Tech’s Hanbury Thesis Prize in her final year of school. Her thesis examined architecture as a mediator to shape the experience of oneself, community, and nature through the design of a communal living retreat. She examined ways in which formal and material maneuvers along with intervention in the site can create a unique function. Inspired by monastic architecture, and its ability to compartmentalize the individual and communal aspects of daily life, her thesis also examines and challenges this play between what is inherently individual and communal, or part and whole.

Celeste interned at DXA Studio in the summer of 2024 and joined the firm in July of 2025.