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Essays, field notes, and process writing from the studio. Slow thinking on architecture, hospitality, and the craft of place.
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Bar Design: Why Flow Matters More Than Decoration
Decoration is the skin; flow is the nervous system. Notes on step count, service corridors, and the psychology of guest movement — from high-volume bars to omakase counters.
Designing for the Senses: Beyond the Visual
A restaurant is not only a room to look at. It's a temperature on your skin, the weight of a chair, the acoustic softness of a banquette. Notes on designing for the full sensorium.
On Wood, Patina, and the Passage of Time
The materials we specify are not finished when they leave our drawings — they finish themselves, slowly, in the hands of the people who live with them.
A Week in Kyoto: Lessons in Restraint
Seven days walking through machiya, tea rooms, and modern ryokan. What Japanese hospitality architecture teaches us about editing down to the essential.
Ten Years of make_: What We've Learned
A decade in, a look back at the projects, the missteps, and the principles that have hardened into practice.
Occasional letters from the studio.
New writing, project releases, and studio updates. A few times a year. No noise.