David Darling, co-founder and partner in the San Francisco-based Aidlin Darling Design, knew by age 6 that he would be an architect. Not so for co-founder and partner Joshua Aidlin. Despite having parents who were artists, Aidlin wanted to be a professional baseball player. [caption id="attachment_24643"...
SHED Architecture & Design is a bit of a maverick in today’s design world; they hue to a pragmatic rather than a conceptual line. That’s no accident. Based in Seattle, Washington, founders Prentis Hale and Thomas Schaer met while pursuing their masters in architecture at the...
Matt Fajkus doesn’t recall any “aha” moments on his path to architecture. Similarly, he can’t point to specific designers who inspired his career choice. But the founder of the award-winning Matt Fajkus Architecture does remember road trips across Texas with his parents, and being fascinated...
Candid Rogers spent his childhood on a cattle and horse ranch in southwest Texas, where he absorbed both the natural and agrarian landscapes that remain imprinted on his imagination. It wasn’t until just before starting college, when he visited Spain and France, that he experienced...
The theme of confluence resonates throughout any conversation with Kathy Hancox and Michael Kothke, founders of the Tucson, Arizona-based HK Associates. Everything — from their education, to past work experiences, to the people they’ve encountered along the way — has come together in their vision. [caption...
Steve Bull can’t recall a definitive moment or event that led him to architecture. There was no childhood epiphany over a set of building blocks; architecture was simply the course his life took, and nothing, from his undergraduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...
“All of my peers, my team — we live in a world of architecture 24/7,” John Grable says. “It’s something that you can’t turn off, and if you can’t live that way, there are lots of other ways of making a living.” The San Antonio, Texas-based...
“Austin is like a Venus flytrap,” says Heather McKinney, founding principal of McKinney York Architects based in Austin, Texas. “Particularly if you’re a Texan. You think of it as a place to go, and then you never leave.” [caption id="attachment_21906" align="aligncenter" width="400"] The remnant of a...
Not many creative professions are easily passed from one generation to another, but at Field Architecture in Los Altos, at the northern end of California’s Silicon Valley, a father and son are creating dwellings that are memorable not only for their extraordinary beauty but also...
Architecture with a capital A is what Craig Hoopes has always aspired to at his Sante Fe, New Mexico, firm — not simply building. Yes, a house is primarily a shelter, built to satisfy its owner’s needs, but he believes it can also be a...