We’ve had the opportunity to participate in numerous projects and activities from among the countless number we’ve explored, and through our process of investigation we’ve seen the gap that divides our conceptual visualization of projects from their realized forms steadily diminish.

Beyond this, however, what we continue to strive for is the actualization, through the work, of values in architecture yet unseen. It is no longer solely a matter of answering every question posed, but questioning the very question, starting from zero, from the point before zero. The work mustn’t be viewed only as an element of architecture. What we want from a future architecture is that these considerations find their material forms in the fundamentals that blend to compose society, human interaction, thought, and history.

We choose to call this Ur-Architecture:

Ur-Architecture is architecture’s archetype; it approaches the original human impulse to build.

It is a prototype of design, the view from a place before design fragmented into a world of specialized styles and genres.

Ur-Architecture takes the form of nature; it speaks in the language that binds humanity to nature, and in that way, becomes architecture comprehensible to all.

Ur-Architecture is architecture’s future. Imagination unhindered, architecture that can be, will be. 

It is diverse, it is constant change, it is the future.