Endemic is a multidisciplinary office positioned between the fields of architectural, landscape, and [non]urban design and research. Primary to the work is an interest in and careful blending of analogue and digital techniques tailored to specific contexts with the belief that multiplication and hybridization that pivot from state to state opens a framework in which novel possibilities for interpretation, intuition, and innovation may reside. As such, Endemic operates through a 'middle-out' process, neither top down nor bottom up, rather engaging material organization coupled with local analysis in the development of a variety of scales and types of projects.
The name, Endemic, assumes the traditional meaning concerning local contexts, tongues, and material ecologies as an intensely local construct. Yet, it also extends to make contact with the inherency of drawing and technology in architecture and landscape as fundamental, disciplinary dialogues while connecting with the immediacy of local environmental and climatic contexts in novel ways.