Past Projects

Joint of Language / memory of joint / joint of space

The fundamental nature of any studio is the assumption of an initial focus of study into a discovered cultural or conceptual model. All project bring with them assumptions of a set of parameters. Within these parameters of investigation project slowly emerges as a by-product process, research, and consideration of the information at hand. Fundamentally, process is the goal of research and investigation of this process and the most rigorous sense yields the most interesting results. The act of architectural design is not predicated on a priori concepts of creation through Platonic means of ideation; it is active gradually building coherent answer to a serious conversations with many people.

We live in a world of information technology, whereby the collection and distribution of knowledge is itself a dominant component of economic and cultural discourse From the collections of clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia, to the printed page, to today’s proliferation of digital media, libraries have always contained the records and information that reflect the societies that create them and represent the openness of those societies. The historical conventions of the library still exist today but its role as a resource has evolved over the last century.



Ease of access to information through digitized media as well as series of other contemporary factors have changed the traditional functions of a library.



The larger research library for example has begun to shed a number of the physical artifacts that once established its credibility as an unquestioned and finite resource of information. Databases, essentially

without the need of a physical presence now hold that credibility.