envelope Architecture + Design is an award-winning, design-focused architecture practice whose work reaches across disciplinary boundaries to envision new ways of living and working. Founded in 2002, the firm is recognized for its pioneering work transforming underutilized sites across San Francisco and for crafting environments for work, hospitality and the arts that embrace the dynamics of contemporary life. 

Taking an expansive view of design, envelope A+D engages a wide ranging set of questions spanning architecture, development, product design and curation. In addition to The French Laundry Kitchen Expansion, this approach has informed projects as varied as Forest<>House, an unconventional family retreat; PROXY, an interim use design and development strategy; the family of Delfina restaurants; and Hunters Point Shoreline, a half-mile long bayshore park on the site of a former power plant.

envelope A+D has been honored as part of Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard and the United States Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. The New York Times, T Magazine, Architect, Architectural Record, Interior Design, Fast Company and Phaidon all have featured the firm’s work.