New Studio Snapshot conversation on Archinect: ‘Each Modest Project Improves a Life, and Ideally, the Life Next Door’: A Conversation With BLDUS
We speak with Andrew Linn and Jack Becker, founding partners of Washington, DC-based architecture and development office BLDUS
@bld.us about their "farm-to-shelter" ethos, material eloquence, architects as developers/ builders, and designing buildings that are not only sustainable but also healthy.
"Sometimes the only way to truly understand a project — sometimes the only way to realize it at all — is to become its developer or its builder, taking on roles that stretch well beyond design," they tell us.
BLDUS is also a recent winner of the Architectural League of New York's
@archleague 2026 Emerging Voices awards.
🔗 Read the full story on Archinect: archinect.com/features/article/150538686/each-modest-project-improves-a-life-and-ideally-the-life-next-door-a-conversation-with-bldus
📸 Cover: Brown House in Washington, DC. Photo: Jennifer Hughes.
@jenniferhughesphoto
📸 4 & 5: Poplar Grove in Washington, DC. Photo: Ty Cole.
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📸 6: Brown House in Washington, DC. Photo: Jennifer Hughes.
📸 7: Poplar Cloud in Washington, DC. Photo: Ty Cole.
📸 8: Grass House in Washington, DC. Photo: Ty Cole.
📸 9: Stick House in East Hampton, NY. Photo: Michael Vahrenwald.
@mvahrenwald
📸 10: BLDUS founding partners Andrew Linn (left) and Jack Becker (right) at Walden Pond, Massachusetts, the historic site of Henry David Thoreau’s 1845–1847 experiment in deliberate living. Image courtesy BLDUS.
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