Based in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Briar Hickling and Alex Mok of Linehouse build site-sensitive projects around knowledge of local materials and Chinese craftsmanship.

According to firm principal J. Jih, whose studio works out of a converted warehouse in Boston’s South End arts district, architecture is a place “to dissect value, encounter the values of others, and continually evolve one’s own values.”

Classmates Millie Anderson and Jimmy Carter began moonlighting on small freelance projects—today, Office MI–JI has introduced a refreshing new approach to the Melbourne design scene and completed several intriguing projects in low-cost local materials.

Among other projects, Brent Linden and Chris Brown's Portland-based firm has transformed a postwar house into a new residence and home studio for a local design business.

For the young Tokyo architect, who worked under Kengo Kuma for a decade, integrating natural elements with concrete, glass, and steel has become second nature.

RECORD presents an array of emerging firms from across the globe as its Design Vanguard 2022 winners.

Adam Frampton and Karolina Czeczek of Only If share an interest in urban planning and housing typologies, most notably affordable prototypes in unexpected places.

The London-based firm's robust, solid-seeming buildings are rich in sensation and ideas, yet retain an elemental simplicity.

In Toronto, Ja Architecture Studio works at the intersection of architectural formalism and the city.

The Brooklyn-based firm CO Adaptive focuses exclusively on renovating existing structures, transforming many of them into Passive House buildings.