Architecture emerges from conditions, and becomes a condition itself.
Every architectural project begins with its own particular set of conditions: site and context, program and scale, technology and materials, budget, and the people involved. Rather than seeing these conditions as constraints to be overcome, we regard them as starting points from which architecture can emerge.
Once built, architecture becomes part of the world, shaping, in ways both large and small, the lives of those who inhabit it, pass by it, or simply see it from afar. In turn, architecture continually takes on new meanings through people's actions, the objects they place within and around it, and the passage of time, creating new conditions for others.
We focus on this world of mutual conditioning. How can architecture respond to complex conditions and their ongoing changes? This, to us, is the fundamental question of the environment.
We therefore seek to move beyond an understanding of architecture that fixes its form and use at the moment of completion, and instead consider architecture open to future change. We aim to create architecture as a framework that respects human agency: a framework as simple as possible, allowing people to understand what they are doing and to actively engage with their environment.
Even as technology and society undergo profound changes, we remain grounded in our own sense of reality as human beings, designing new conditions through our own judgment and responsibility.
