Bushwick Townhouse

This residence is less a backdrop for living than an active collaborator in making.

Designed in close partnership with a widely recognized artist and craftsman—known for fabricating architectural objects, furniture, and traditional artworks—the home operates as a spatial manifesto. Every surface, junction, and gesture participates in a dialogue between art and daily life. Color is structural. Craft is architectural. Play is precise. Rather than separating studio from residence, the project dissolves that boundary. Circulation becomes choreography. Built-in elements function simultaneously as furniture, sculpture, and spatial infrastructure. Materials are handled with the confidence of someone who understands them intimately—how they age, how they catch light, how they reward attention.

This was a true collaboration: architecture shaped by an artist’s hand, and art informed by architectural discipline. The result is a home that feels alive—generous, eccentric, and exacting—where making is not hidden away but celebrated as part of living.

The project was featured in Architectural Record, recognizing it as a rare example of a residence that successfully collapses the distance between craft, art, and architecture—without losing rigor, joy, or livability.

If Bauhaus ideals grew up, loosened their collar, and learned how to cook dinner, this would be the house.