Yoshiko Sato and Michael Morris are partners in the multidisciplinary architecture practice Morris Sato Studio based in New York City since 1996. Internationally recognized for their architecture, design, museum installations, and public art collaborations, Morris and Sato have built and exhibited projects in North America, Europe, and Asia for private, public, institutional, and corporate clients. Morris and Sato are the recipients of numerous professional honors and their work has appeared in leading journals, periodicals, and books. Additional to their practice both architects teach - Sato is adjunct associate professor and the director of the Japan Lab for Architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture; Morris is an architecture and design instructor in the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for Design. The architecture of the Morris Sato Studio is filled with light and sound. In designing for a world, which is already full, Morris and Sato pursue definitions of beauty and utility as equally sustainable human amenities. The experiences and spirit captured in their Studio's diverse projects result not only from their refined use of materials and subtlety of form and color, but by their infusion with an awareness of the ephemeral and enduring aspects of time. These celebrated a/temporal dualities embody an overall ambiance of well being, unique to each place and specific assignment, refuting easy stylistic categorization. Critics have described the work of Morris and Sato as being neither traditional nor modern, but formally inventive and carefully composed, offering persuasive evidence on the existence of aura.