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The Line That Starts It All: Sketching at Studio B
Our 2025 holiday card began with a single line.
Drawn by Senior Project Architect Mike Folwell, the sketch featured on the card isn’t just seasonal artwork, it’s a window into how ideas take shape inside Studio B. Before materials, before models, before constraints or coordination, we begin with pencil and paper. It’s where architecture is stripped back to its essence: space, proportion, light, and intention.
At Studio B, sketches circulate long before floor plans. They are pinned to walls, passed across desks, and pulled out during conversations with clients. They become bridges, between principal and project team, between design and construction, between idea and experience.
Clients often see their future home for the first time as a sketch.
Not finished or polished, but alive.
In a world of digital modeling and real-time rendering, one might assume hand sketching is becoming obsolete. For us, it’s the opposite.
Sketching invites:
Exploration without commitment
Conversation before documentation
Storytelling before resolution
Humanity before perfection
It allows us to ask the most important questions early:
What does it feel like to step inside? Where does light fall? How does the structure breathe with its landscape?
In 2026, our team will continue to share more of these early studies, pages from sketchbooks, iterative drawings, and concept explorations, revealing the visual language behind our work.
Because the end result may be modern, meticulous, and entirely resolved.
But every Studio B project begins the same way:
With a line that chooses the world it will become.
In a practice driven by innovation, modern detailing, and construction-level precision, sketching remains one of our most valuable tools. It’s the moment where instinct leads and possibility opens.