The volumes
How we think, worked through.
Each volume takes one problem and works it through. Some are experiences. Some are studies, each with its artifact. Some are provocations: a real problem, and what we would build to answer it.
Query
Volume 1: How we got hereThe thesis behind the studio, one screen at a time.ExperienceActiveVolume 2: Emotional ArchitectureThe discipline the studio practises, and the six principles it works by.StudyActiveVolume 3: Light firstLight, then material, then scale, then weight.ExperiencePrototypeVolume 4: The feeling briefA few plain words for what a room must do to the person in it, written before anything is drawn.StudyActiveVolume 5: The visa lineA consulate hall, briefed in three words: respected, informed, seen.ProvocationPrototypeVolume 6: Twenty‑four hoursOne place, six briefs, plotted against the sun from first light to midnight.ExperiencePrototypeVolume 7: The first doorA brand arrives somewhere new. Start with what the place has that no other can buy.ProvocationPrototypeVolume 8: One wallSix walls from the archive, specified, and the rooms each one could brief.StudyArchiveVolume 9: A decision primitiveFive tiers and four questions that let a growing organization stop arguing about each project.StudyArchiveVolume 10: TouchstonesBarragán, Vervoordt, Soane, and the artists who worked below the surface.StudyActiveVolume 11: The through‑lineHis own sentences from 2010 to 2026, dated and quoted from the archive.StudyArchiveVolume 12: No overt labelA 2011 brand plan: no logo, only quiet, recurring detail. Specified, as written.StudyArchive
ActiveIn use nowPrototypeBeing developedArchiveKept for what it proves