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Future Housing

“In every city in the world, housing is the first question architecture deals with.”

Storage T

Organizing an apartment around storage.

Table Top Apartments

Apartments that use a system of modules based on the form of stacking table tops.

Ardmore House

Rethinking domestic living along an urban alleyway.

House, Some of This, Some of That

A house that reinvents borrowed architectural tropes.

House for Art Collectors

Renovation of an historic Howard Van Doren Shaw House.

Chicago Three-Flat

A building without interior circulation.

Washington Boulevard Art Outpost

A Renovation and Rooftop Addition to a Chicago Greystone.

Chicago, Chicago

Rethinking the typical three-flat along a commercial corridor.

William J O'Brien Studio

A home for an artist, where a central courtyard connects living spaces with a studio.

Six-Flat with Two Courtyards

Rethinking one of Chicago's most common housing types.

Gold Coast Rooftop Addition

A renovated four-story Chicago home featuring a rooftop oasis.

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Public/Cultural

“The best designed public spaces never dictate or manipulate the visitor to use a space in a certain way.”

Grand Lattices

An award-winning design for pedestrians to access viewing decks along Chicago’s waterfront.

In the Loop

An ADA accessible ramp that gently brings visitors up
to San Antonio City Hall’s entrance.

Chinatown Gateway

A gateway greets visitors with a unique circular form - the universal symbol of inclusion and harmony.

Give Me a Minute, Please!

A place of respite and relaxation along the Chicago Riverwalk.

SAIC Flaxman Library Renovation

Renovation bridges special collections to the main stack.

162. N State Street Lobby

A residence hall lobby that reshapes two offset rectangular rooms.

7 W. Madison Street Lobby

A residence hall lobby that updates the historic interior through a series of precise interventions.

Rice University MD Anderson Hall Renovation: Welcome Center

A dialog between space and form.

Rice University MD Anderson Hall Renovation: Student Forum

A new community forum for both informal and formal gatherings.

Forget-Me-Not Pavilion

Reimagining an iconic Chicago pavilion

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Commercial

“New experiences for workplace and culinary environments energize new ways of being in commercial spaces.”

Dizzy’s

Dizzy's curates an interior vertical sensory experience.

Swiss Consulate Chicago

The new Swiss Consulate Chicago brings a domestic language to the office interior at the Hancock Tower.

10-Car Garage

A 10-Car garage for a car collector in the countryside.

Morris Greenhouse

A Greenhouse that sits on the open field in the countryside.

Tony Lewis Studio

A garage turned into a studio for a local artist.

Tony Lewis Gallery

A renovated Chicago lot that incorporates a gallery space for a local artist.

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Exhibition

“By borrowing the familiar and smuggling architecture we seek to relate our projects to a wide audience.”

Architectural League Prize: Objective Installation

An exhibition showcasing a concept of affordable housing

Crowns

Reimagining crown molding as an element for spatial sculpture.

Smuggling Architecture, Enfilade

This home accommodates the needs of the nuclear family by functionally organizing master and children’s bedrooms on the opposite ends of the home.

Smuggling Architecture, Miller

This house reimagines the four bedrooms as individual suites, positioning the common area in a way that reflects contemporary co-living within a suburban context.

Smuggling Architecture, Portman

The anterooms create intentional moments of pause and reflection, inviting occupants to consider what daily living truly entails.

There Is Room

Exhibition at MAS Context models five residential projects on standard Chicago lots.