The stages and decisions that shape a piece of work from first idea to finished result. Constraints discovered partway through—a budget, a site condition, an old structure—often end up mattering more than the original brief.
A window costs less than almost anything else in a building’s budget, yet daylight is routinely the first thing value-engineered away when a project runs tight.
The column grid of a former factory or the low ceilings of a converted warehouse look like limitations, until they become the thing that makes the new space feel like nowhere else.
