Load-bearing antique (200 year old) White Oak timbers, the primary structural members for the new additions on the Expansion Pack, add material warmth and a contextualizing element to the project.  Timber framing is ever-present in the local vernacular architecture of…

KEEP IT SIMPLE SHELVING UNIT  (K.I.S.) A Customizable, Universal, Cost-Effective, DIY Shelving prototype. A universal design ethos drives the K.I.S. Shelving Unit.  Inherent in the design are tenets of: material efficiency simplicity of design adaptability and re-use use of current…

MBA is honored to have been awarded an Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Award / Honorable Mention / 2016  (link here) for Hilgard Garden.  Many thanks to the All-Star jury!

Hilgard Garden has been awarded an American Society of Landscape Architects Award, Northern California Chapter  (link here) for top Residential Design.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA The elfin behavior of Dan Kiley belies a vast trove of work generated by a complex mix of intuitive design and gridded modernism.  Kiley’s oeuvre; both forthright and elegant, rises to the forefront of…

Whatever any one does or says, [I] must be good, just as if the gold, the emerald, or the purple were always saying this: Whatever any one does or says, [I] must be emerald and keep my colour. Everything which…