Designing a Sensory Sanctuary: How We Create Comfortable Spaces For Lingering
Home should be where your family is comfortable lingering, and people linger when they are content. We create spaces for contentment by...
When Should You Call an Architect (and When Should That Architect be bDot)?
When is the right time to call an architect about building or remodeling your home, and which architect should you call? This is a...
A Great Home is Like a Sculpture
A home is a collaborative work of art. The success of a home design is determined by how closely it aligns with and supports the life a...
Discerning Words | Seeking the Who
Words, they have been with us our entire existence, minus those first few moments of life where we desperately longed to communicate with...
Creating Home | An Overview of Our Residential Design Process
Most people, at some point in their lives, think about and consider building a home. There is something romantic, something mysterious,...
Art that Shapes Space and Ideas | The Bad Idea
People often assume that in order to define space, architecture is required. As artists and architects, we used The Bad Idea to not only...
How Music Is Like Architecture | Birmingham Architects
Music, in many ways, is like architecture: both are journeys and experiences. Both can start out in an unfamiliar place, only to end up...
Exploring Order and Chaos in Design and the Creative Process
“The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.” Thomas Kuhn The creative process requires a certain amount of introspection, and...
The Relationship between Designing Furniture and Designing Buildings
As architects, we are primarily tasked with designing buildings. That doesn’t mean we can’t direct our talents elsewhere, as we do with...
