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Thinking out loud, by hand.
Short essays on process, materials and the places we build — written between site visits and model reviews.
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Process
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Why we build models first
Before drawings, before renders, there is a block of basswood on the table. Notes on why the studio still thinks with its hands.
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Materials
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Lime, timber and the patience of materials
Why we choose materials that age, weather and can be repaired — and what that asks of the people who live with them.
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Field notes
6 min read
Reading a site: notes from a forest slope
Two days on a 38-degree slope in Ticino, and what the chestnuts, the granite and the morning fog taught us about the Forest House.
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