Three kinds of writing on the work and the craft. Project Notes — long-form reflections on specific buildings we’ve filmed and photographed. Field Notes — working principles, observations, and lessons from behind the camera. Studio Notes — how we operate as a practice.
How do you market a 7,000-square-foot hangar at La Cholla Airpark? We made a scripted short film for the pilots most likely to buy it, and made sure every detail would hold up when they watched.
The grammar of Contemporary Spanish Colonial is specific — plaster walls, timber beams, arched openings, steel-frame windows. What each of those elements asks of the camera, and how a new build in Dove Mountain made those lessons visible.
Notes on architectural composition, drawn from a Judith Chafee house in the Catalina Foothills designed for it. Composition isn’t a feeling — it’s a sequence of unconscious decisions, most of them old, some of them mathematical, almost none of them random.
Architecture that earns its place by staying quiet — and what it took to document a compound the desert was allowed to keep.
Most architectural photography is documentation. Narrative work — in stills or film — is something else entirely. It understands that the building is making an argument, and uses the frame to amplify it.