“We strive for quiet integration of structure and landscape.”
Line and Space, LLC — in its own words
1978
Founded, in Tucson
140+
Design awards received
16
People in the studio
Both
Architects and general contractors
Founded in 1978 to build architecture that answers its site.
The office was set up in Tucson to design and build environmentally sensitive architecture that respects and responds to existing site conditions. The work is known internationally and has been recognised by the profession with more than 140 architectural and environmental design awards.
Sixteen people work in one free-flowing studio. They are architects, and they are also general contractors — having built some of their own projects, they know what a drawing costs to put up.
The building has to do the work the climate will not.
i
Climate-specific architecture
ii
Water harvesting
iii
Gray water irrigation
iv
Photovoltaics
v
Shade, humidity and air movement, to temper outdoor space
vi
Entry sequence, scale, materials, colour and form
The list above is the firm’s own. The shadow falling across this page is drawn from the same idea — it moves as you read, the way a fin wall moves its shadow across a courtyard between morning and afternoon.
Two of them are for the firm itself.
Les Wallach was advanced to the AIA College of Fellows in 1993; Henry Tom in 2018.
Tucson, Arizona.
Studio
Line and Space, LLC
Tucson, Arizona
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Also working from
Marfa · Walnut Creek
Los Angeles · Honolulu