Studio Ma is an award-winning architecture and environmental design studio delivering innovative, sustainable and unique designs to forward thinking organizations and individuals. Founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 2003, Studio Ma’s three principals, Christiana Moss, Christopher Alt, and Tim Keil foster a creative and adaptive design practice anchored in research and the advancement of buildings that restore nature within urban and campus contexts. AIA Arizona’s 2016 Firm of the Year, Studio Ma has been recognized by Architect Magazine and Architectural Record, as a Design Vanguard firm.

The philosophy of the Studio embodies the concept of ‘Ma’, a Japanese term that means the space between and acknowledges the dynamic relationship between objects and their environment. This concern extends our design thinking through multiple scales and considerations, from single family residences to complex urban and campus contexts, from generating user profiles for urban infill dwellings to the creation of a new campus precinct.  We began our practice with projects for developers, non-profits and significant cultural institutions and continue to be commissioned by such clients due to our rigorous practice and thoughtful use of economic construction methodologies. Recent projects include a 715-bed graduate student residence community at Princeton University, Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, and at Arizona State University, a 109,000 square foot addition to the Student Recreation Center and the renovation of a 15-story, mid-century modern residential college.

Studio Ma dedicates itself to practicing Architecture for Everyone. We believe in bringing great design and a deeper connection to place to a greater percentage of the built environment. For us, design and the act of designing is inclusive, not exclusive. Our clients are people with visions and missions. We make it our job to accomplish these, often with limited means, by doing more with less.