Essays, stories & studio news.

What we are thinking about between drawings — material honesty, daylight, timber engineering and the occasional award.

Featured · Essay · May 2026 · 8 min

On Material Honesty

Concrete that pretends to be stone, stone cut to look like concrete — a plea for buildings that say what they are.

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Project Story · March 2026 · 11 min

Two hundred fog days a year forced a house to learn from weather instead of defending against it.

Essay · November 2025 · 7 min

Daylight is the cheapest material and the most expensive to fake. A short argument for designing rooms around the sun.

News · June 2025 · 3 min

First prize among forty-seven entries for the valley’s new civic vault — construction begins spring 2026.

Essay · February 2025 · 9 min

A decade into the timber revolution, an engineer’s audit of what actually worked, what quietly failed, and when to still choose concrete.

News · October 2024 · 2 min

The Chicago Athenaeum honours the Lisbon hotel for adaptive reuse ‘that listens before it draws’.