Kathryn Moll and Nicholas de Monchaux collaborate as modem, a practice with experience in software, architecture, urban design, and digital fabrication. Modem uses architectural tools to transform objects, environments, and urban situations, strengthening and improving connections between buildings, cities, and ecologies. Modem’s work is built on shared experience living and working in New York City, Washington, D.C., Venice, Italy, Oakland and Rome.

The things we make are beautiful, minimal, and appeal to all the senses. They have a sense of humor. They represent ideas at different scales. They move. They are scenarios and settings for performance. They strive towards breaking things down to their essence. They may well be technologies or systems for making objects as much as objects themselves. They are valuable to us, but they represent real and essential value for others as well; both our collaborators, and the larger society in which our collaborations take place.