Ideas
Positions we hold, dated by the year they began.
Each idea is published before the work, and every project is an example of one. They change as the places we work on teach us more.
- 2022Ground Before FormLand comes before buildings. Where an owner has already restored the land, our job is to turn it into a district people actually use.
- 2022Public Space as Social InfrastructureA bench, a shaded edge, a room left open at dusk. These are infrastructure. They decide how a place feels to be in.
- 2024A Field Becomes Real When It ConvenesA practice spread across the world becomes a field the moment it gathers, publishes and comes back.
- 2023Learning Belongs to Its GroundStudios, kitchens, fields and trails work as a classroom. What is learned from a place stays with it.
- 2024The Story Precedes the PlanMany places already have their own pattern. Read it first, and the plan arrives with authority.
- 2026An Experience Can Become a CommunityA festival gathers people for a day. What holds them together for the two years in between is the thing worth designing.