Two Projects Published in Architecture DC
We are thrilled that our recent work at Powell Elementary has been featured as the cover article for Architecture DC! Twin Oak’s Community Garden was also featured in the magazine along with other...
Abre Las Ventanas /
Abre Las Ventanas
Powell Elementary School won the AIA DC Design Excellence and Sustainability awards by telling students to “Abre Las Ventanas” (open the windows). Our renovation and addition to this dual language...
AIA CHAPTER AWARDS /
AIA CHAPTER AWARDS
We are excited and honored to announce that three of our projects have won four AIA DC Design Awards. Powell Elementary is recognized for Design Excellence and Sustainability, Twin Oaks Pavilion...
2 CITIES /
2 CITIES
We’ve grown! As the work has grown and project types expanded we’ve teamed up with JP2 Architects our partners in Baltimore. Together we offer planning, architecture, and interior design services for...
ACCOLADES /
ACCOLADES
We’re grateful for our mission-driven clients and honored at the recognition our work has received. This past year alone we criss-crossed the country at the invitation of the Gehl Institute,...
18 YEARS /
18 YEARS
We celebrated our birthday in September - 18 years of civic, cultural, and community-based work! We began with a dedication to the design of artful, sustainable communities and we’re amazed at the...
Why Do Community Design Process At All? /
Why Do Community Design Process At All?
This is a question asked frequently in the design community. The community design process is not an easy fit with the way that many design firms operate. ISTUDIO contends that developing mechanisms...
When Does a City Become Your Own? /
When Does a City Become Your Own?
Notebook Japan 98 So when does a city start to belong to a person? Is it a matter of time, or of experience? Maybe when the lights coming on in the evening bring a sense of familiarity. When I have a...
DC Design Week at Marvin Gaye Recreation Center /
DC Design Week at Marvin Gaye Recreation Center
We are excited to be a part of DC Design Week, a city-wide celebration of all things design in DC hosted by AIGA DC. Come join us for a creative lunch at Marvin Gaye Recreation Center, where we will...
Smelling Your Floor in the Age of Online Shopping /
Smelling Your Floor in the Age of Online Shopping
We are renovating a building from the late 1800s, which involves sanding and refinishing a pine floor that’s older than any person alive on Earth. Particles of wood dust in the air, set free after...
ISTUDIO Presentation at Design|DC 2018 /
ISTUDIO Presentation at Design|DC 2018
Please join ISTUDIO’s Marisa Brown and Rick Harlan Schneider at DesignDC 2018 this Wednesday. Marisa + Rick will be speaking on the conference theme of Constructing an Equitable Future along with...
ISTUDIO presentation at Cities Alive Conference /
ISTUDIO presentation at Cities Alive Conference
Principal Rick Schneider, AIA, LEED AP, presents case studies in design for outdoor education at CitiesAlive 2018 in Brooklyn, NY. He is joined by co-presenters Sally Parker, DCPS Sustainability...
Architects Ready to Help with Hurricane Relief /
Architects Ready to Help with Hurricane Relief
Architects + Engineers in the Mid-Atlantic are on stand-by with the North Carolina American Institute of Architects (AIA) ready to help with Hurricane Florence Disaster Assistance. Architects can be...
ISTUDIO to present at Public x Design Conference /
ISTUDIO to present at Public x Design Conference
ISTUDIO Architects has been selected to present at Public x Design, the annual conference hosted by the Gehl Institute for Public Life. This year’s conference focuses on inclusion and equity in our...
Thieving Monkeys /
Thieving Monkeys
The sun was barely up as we leave the Yellow House, eyes red from the flight and sneakers tightened in anticipation; ready to explore the streets of Kathmandu. We turn left, running along the thick...
For Whom The Monument Speaks /
For Whom The Monument Speaks
The voice whispered, “Is this the most monumental building from all these weeks,”not at the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacán[1], nor at the Metropolitan Cathedral[2] by the Zócalo[3], nor at the...
Day 4 in the Impenetrable Forest /
Day 4 in the Impenetrable Forest
We track mountain gorillas today. The call came in from the Uganda Wildlife Authority while we were at dinner on the patio watching the lights in Buhoma village go out one by one. The forest camp...
Mayor Opens DC’s First Resilient Recreation Center /
Mayor Opens DC’s First Resilient Recreation Center
Mayor Muriel Bowser toured the new recreation center with ISTUDIO Project Architect Marisa Brown, Project Manager Dan Snook, and Principal Rick Harlan Schneider. Named for its neighborhood native...
Tubman E.S. Courtyard featured in Architecture|DC magazine /
Tubman E.S. Courtyard featured in Architecture|DC magazine
The renovation of the courtyard at Tubman Elementary School, located in Columbia Heights, was featured in the ArchitectureDC magazine as a part of the "Hatching New Ideas" edition of Spring 2018. ...
Studio Salon: Sustainable Infrastructure for Our City /
Studio Salon: Sustainable Infrastructure for Our City
“Anything you can blow up in an action movie…” says Zach Schafer to begin our studio salon. Bridges, roads, dams, and airports are the traditional way we used to think of infrastructure. We now look...