Travelogue
Every spring, our studio steps away from the office for an annual retreat. A time for renewal and inspiration, this tradition has allowed us the chance to immerse ourselves in architecture, design, art, craft, and cultures outside of the Pacific Northwest. Alternating years between a domestic trip and one in Europe—where we attend the Salone del Mobile in Milan—studio members will often extend these trips for travels of their own, to follow their curiosity and share their discoveries upon their return. The small sample of photographs here serve as our shared visual archive of these travels.
“I believe that it is art that makes us grasp the reality of the world. It is the effort that man has made, since his beginning, to make clear for himself, through forms, his own existence.”
“The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.”
“Wonder in us is—you might say—a record of the way we were made. It is a well, which is completely full of all the things you will ever learn; because nature, in its making of things, records every step of its making.”
“There are valued times in almost everyone’s experience when the world is perceived afresh: perhaps after a rain as the sun glistens on the streets and windows catch a departing cloud, or, alone, when one sees again the roundness of an apple. At these times our perceptions are not at all sentimental. They are, rather, matter of fact, neutral and undesiring—yet suffused with an unreasoned joy at the simple correspondence of appearance and reality, at the evident rightness of things as they are. It is as though the sound and feel of a new car door closing with a kerchunk! were magnified and extended to dwell in the look, sound, smell, and feel of all things.”
The photographs shown here were taken by studio members during their travels between 2021 and 2026.