The ultimate version of the weekend house was precipitated by yet another shift in parameters imposed by the client. Economic constraints were tightened resulting...

Architect Magazine has awarded the Outside In House with a P/A Award Citation. You can follow this link to their webpage: Architect Magazine

The Shadow Pavilion explores the paradox of a perforated structure where the removal of material makes a structure lighter and weaker. The Shadow Pavilion,...

ar+d award The Shadow Pavilion has been awarded a commendation from the 2011 AR+D Awards for Emerging Architecture. The winning and commended entries were...

This project for a two-story apartment in a converted racket club in downtown Ann Arbor reconfigures and redistributes the spatial arrangements of the apartment...

The project developed in response to the need for the control of echo in the conference rooms for a distributed corporation. Beyond simple face to face meetings,...

The project is created in response to a university initiative to have multidisciplinary teams engage issues of the environment through art driven inquiry. Our...

In 2003 a photographer shot the Horton Kuwada Residence for a magazine advertisement. He liked the project so much that he decided to work with us to develop the...

Ayaka Sushi makes a strong use of color in an attempt to pull people off the sidewalk and into the space. Depending on the perspective, the amount of color in...

This project developed as a synthesis of dual research agendas – articulation of a furniture / field relationships and investigations into fabrication...

Storm Glass, a nineteenth century weather-predicting instrument, is a sealed glass container with a mixture of distilled water and chemicals, which predicts...

The Storm Glass Research wins a 2011 R+D Award from Architect Magazine. Also featured in the awards program is University of Michigan colleague, Vivian Lee's...

A second version of the weekend house was precipitated by a substantial increase in programmatic scope of the house, including a second bedroom and a separate...

The tea house structure conforms to the traditional dimensions of a Japanese tea house of 9 x 9 x 6’, the space provides a series of interactions between user...

The Shadow Pavilion wins a 2010 R+D Award from Architect Magazine. Also featured in the awards program are fellow University of Michigan faculty, Steven...

This project redefines the internal organization and exterior form of an existing 1960’s single story ranch house. The project for a new master bedroom suite...

The Park House addresses generic and specific aspects of residential construction. The site specifics are the adjacency of a city park on the North and a steep...

The studio complex is an addition to an existing house and the three units are programmed to include a photo studio, painting studio, and film viewing space....

The commission of a weekend house in Three Oaks, Michigan was the first opportunity to explore the storm glass wall system at the full spatial and architectural...

This project for a new office wing of a newly renovated clean room research and manufacturing facility attempts to provide interconnected relationships between...

The paper luminaries investigate the translucent qualities of paper by exploiting its ability to transmit light and cast shadows. Constructed from laser-cut...

Architectural Diagrams Multiple projects by PLY Architecture have been included in the 2011 DOM Publishers book Construction Design Manual – Architectural...

The creative direction team is responsible for the early development of houses and designed elements such as screens, carports, and multiple house configurations....

Instability: Young Architects 8 Princeton Architectural Press from the book jacket: Instability is the eighth book in an annual series of publications, featuring...

The Assembly Required proposal responds to an expansive attitude toward education and community where the potential of each emerges from its relationship to the...

The exterior cladding for the residence uses pre-manufactured fiber reinforced concrete planks to unify the exterior form of the addition and capture exterior...

The Storm Glass House wins American Architecture Award The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the Eurpoean Center for Architecture Art Design...

This project is an installation to honor Mies van der Rohe, and was the winning entry for a two-stage competition to revitalize the central area of the pedestrian...

Experiments for the second BTB interior also emerge from a series of questions about the relationship between the craft of making and new technologies of digital...

The design of Omi grew from a desire to make a very clear, bold, and graphic statement with the space that would function as a place and as an identity. The...

We approached the interior from both the inside out and the outside in. The three existing living rooms (kitchen, dining and living) were opened and combined...

Experiments for the Big Ten Burrito interior emerge from a series of questions about the relationship between the craft of making and new technologies of digital...

Thomas Jefferson’s Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 created the regulations for surveying and land acquisition for the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains. ...