by Lowai Ghaly | Jan 4, 2026 | CONNECTIONS, FALL 2025
We ALWAYS visualize and design the journey! For a new modern home, we designed on a rural 5-acre site in the Sierra foothills, the journey TO THE HOME influenced the DESIGN OF THE HOME. Our design begins way before the front door. A sketch to illustrate the connection...
by Lowai Ghaly | Jan 4, 2026 | DETAILS, FALL 2025
We sketch concepts with paper and colored pencils, we make white digital renderings, and we build cardboard scaled models of project. Each method captures the spirt of a design that we use to test a design’s composition, proportions, structural systems, scale and...
by Lowai Ghaly | Jan 4, 2026 | FALL 2025, STORIES
By aligning the home with the land, the sun, and the moon, we framed a rare harvest moon to rise like a quiet spotlight. One year later, we received this email. “After the house was completed and we moved in, we discovered dramatic features about the design that...
by Lowai Ghaly | Jan 4, 2026 | FALL 2025, PEOPLE
In this edition, we are spotlighting architect Will Hastie, a long-time member of our office staff. Will brings a long career of international architectural experience with interests in historic architecture and culture. His diverse background enriches our project...
by Lowai Ghaly | Jul 23, 2025 | CONNECTIONS, SUMMER 2025
Every custom home that we design generally has a remarkably high ratio of glass windows to solid walls. Most people think of windows in the context of “looking out.” We think of windows as “transparent walls” made of glass to fuse spaces together- to make both...
