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“All good human work remembers its history.”
—Wendell Berry
Look around.
Do the places you spend time in make you happy? Make you feel connected? To yourself, your family, community, history? Do they make you want to talk, linger, hang out? Do they respond to their ecoregion, climate, locale, neighborhood? Do they make you feel grounded? Do they foster conversation? [Not so much, right?]
This is what my hero, Wendell Berry, says:
To have beautiful buildings, for example, people obviously must want them to be beautiful and know how to make them beautiful, but evidently they also much love the places where the buildings are to be built.
For a long time, in city and countryside, architecture has disregarded the nature and influence of places.Buildings have become as interchangeable from one place to another as automobiles. The outskirts of cities are virtually identical and as depressingly ugly as the corn and bean deserts of industrial agriculture.
I’m on a mission to cultivate a better way to develop the built environment. One that remembers and takes its cues from nature, people, and community, rather than cars, phones, tech bros and banks.
One that looks around
to the local site, ecosystem, and people.
to the history, culture, and meaning of a place.
That looks backwards,
And that looks forward.
By being concept-driven, we streamline construction costs and minimize waste, while imbuing our spaces with integrity and soulfulness.
I love a good glow-up.
There is something extra special about breathing new life into old spaces. It creates a powerful, living bridge between past and future—another way we can remain grounded in history as we project into the unknown. That joy of transformation, of reimagination, never gets old for me.
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