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Monolith is an architecture studio for the long view. Each building is a single idea, made heavy, set down where it belongs and left to weather.
Selected work
- Founded
- 2009
- Built
- 41
We are not interested in the spectacular. A building should hold its ground quietly, take the weather, and feel inevitable once it stands as if the site had always asked for it.
How we work
01
Read the site
We start on the ground, in weather, before a single line. The site sets the brief as much as the client does.
02
Find the one idea
Every building reduces to a single move. We hold to it through every drawing until nothing extra remains.
03
Build to last
Cast in place, detailed for fifty winters. We choose materials that gain from age rather than hide it.