Studio Tractor Architecture

Our first conversations about architecture began when we were students at Cooper Union. Later, our academic and professional careers overlapped at Cranbrook Educational Community, where we were able to test our ideas about architecture through fabrication. That experience galvanized our passion for both design and the process of making architecture. Here we gained an understanding of a process of design that was closely tied to the materials and the means of which it is formed. It was the unofficial beginning of our partnership.

As we returned to New York and established our practice, we have further developed that sensibility into a studio practice that allows for the intensive study of materials and detailing that not only involves our selves but fabricators and builders as well. We are dedicated to the principles of clarity and simplicity, while looking for the opportunities to elevate the dialogue of connections involving light, space, form and material. The relationship between the creative act and the constructive process is critical to our practice. Beyond the initial drawings, we remain actively involved in the production of our ideas and understand the importance of craft and experimentation with materials.

We feel strongly that architects need to question the built environment, and that these questions occur on multiple scales, from the careful detailing of connections to the organization of buildings on a site. To us, these investigations hold no hierarchy, but serve a design’s broader principles. We strive to better comprehend the act of building and in turn consider the full impact of our ideas in the built environment.