Inspiration: Collections

Created around movement, ascension and haptic experiences, forest walks invite reflection and intros pection amongst nature.

The barn's value in historical strength, functional versatility and adaptive nature makes the typolo gy an appealing route for today's architects working outside of city limits.

Generally speaking, the varied shades of pink are often discounted as too girlish, juvenile or campy for any significant treatment in architecture. Because of these associations, more often than not, the color is reserved for decorative effect or other, more trivial applications. Think 80s kitsch-pastiche, Googie-style roadside architecture, or the household princess playhouse. Notwithstanding the…

Beyond the physical realm of buildings, light surely is the most fundamental substance to the archit ectural profession: it has the capability to transform cold, clinical spaces into welcoming, uplifting or even moving environments with the flick of a switch. It makes sense, then, that countless architects throughout history have stepped outside of their usual disciplines…

From providing optimal light and views to ensuring comfortable amounts of solar heat gain, parametri c façade design lends itself to aesthetic efficiency, environmental soundness and ease of construction.

Many consider early childhood education to be a deeply formative time in the overall holistic develo pment of a healthy child. Pre-kindergarten or nursery schools are essential components of the emotional, social and communicative development of young children and have been shown to have numerous benefits later in life. While the United States has lagged behind…

Limestone is an ancient material deposit that composes almost 10% of all sedimentary rock found on t he planet. It has been used by architects for thousands of years: everything from the Pyramids of Giza, to the rapidly industrializing cityscapes of the 19th and 20th centuries, to Mies van der Rohe’s classic Barcelona Pavilion features this…

Take a quick inventory of your favorite outdoor spaces and a common theme will likely become apparen t: Outside = Public. While popular public areas are often defined spatially as voids, it is much less frequent that built forms can be described as truly public. This is a collection of outdoor, open-air structures intended for the…

Parking structures are some of the most common buildings many people encounter on a daily basis, yet they remain largely ignored by the architectural profession. They populate roadways, cities, shopping centers and office buildings across the globe and have considerable spatial impact on the environment. Too often though these structures receive little consideration in the…