When Jeff Taylor and B. Alex Miller met in a studio class while working toward their M.Arch. degrees at MIT, “It was love at first sight,” jokes Miller. “It was one of those weird situations where we had a couple of sit-down conversations after teaching hours, and almost immediately we thought, ‘We should work together.’ ” They founded their firm in 2002, before graduation, and have since completed a number of projects that highlight materiality and craft.
Both from working-class communities in the middle of the country (Miller grew up in Illinois; Taylor hails from Colorado), the pair share an affinity for hand-tooled architecture with conceptual underpinnings. “We developed a good relationship in our studio work and could offer crits to each other in a way that was really productive,” says Taylor. That closeness endures — it is especially evident when the two finish each other’s sentences. The partners have developed a design process that involves honing a concept verbally until it works. “The more we throw these ideas around, the more comfortable I am with them,” says Miller.
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