s_sk studio skaggs kennedy is a Berkeley, California based design practice for architecture and urbanism.

Maxine Skaggs Kennedy and Sean Kennedy founded their studio 5 years ago with a combined 30 years of experience with the built environment. The practice is run as a studio in which study, research and collaboration are vitally important to the approach of design. Design is seen as a vigorous interaction with place at all scales and with all disciplines.

s_sk seeks collaboration and insight from unlikely places. Architecture is not only about space, light and air but also about politics, culture and ecology. While a timeless art, to remain relevant, architecture must be practiced in a contemporary manner to address current issues. Architecture is an adaptive and transformative process.

s_sk uses design as a way to enhance and add to the natural environment with every project. Sustainability and “green” design are not just checklists but integrated into the overall project process.

s_sk embraces the technological as well as the crafted. The method and process of construction should be tailored not only to client needs and program but also to material availability, local means of production and impact on the greater environment.

s_sk sees design as an action and not just as an object, projects should have a positive effect on their users, their neighbors and the future.

s_sk searches for unknown possibilities, for the creative and for an architecture practiced somewhere between a possible utopia and a pragmatic act.