Studio Viridian Notes, questions and evidence from a small Seattle design-build studio that treats every building as an experiment, and shares what it learns. https://www.studioviridian.com/ 2026-11-11T12:00:00Z Studio Viridian Why a building firm would publish its doubtshttps://www.studioviridian.com/essays/why-a-building-firm-publishes-its-doubts/2026-11-11T12:00:00ZArchitects and builders are paid to sound certain. We think the certainty is part of the problem, so this site starts from the first line of our tenets. Gleanings No. 01: The house nobody countedhttps://www.studioviridian.com/week/2026-11-11/2026-11-11T12:00:00ZSeattle tallies its first year of fourplexes, architects report that AI has become ordinary, voters turn on data centers and the climate talks open with a harder number. The greenest new home may be the old house, kepthttps://www.studioviridian.com/essays/the-old-house-kept/2026-11-10T12:00:00ZSeattle now allows four homes on most residential lots. The usual first step is to clear the lot. We think that step is usually a mistake. Solar panels are not the point. Not here, anyway.https://www.studioviridian.com/essays/solar-is-not-the-point-here/2026-11-09T12:00:00ZThe climate value of a solar panel depends on the power it replaces. In Seattle, that changes almost everything about what a net-zero building should be. A garden will not feed the block. Plant it anyway.https://www.studioviridian.com/essays/a-garden-will-not-feed-the-block/2026-11-08T12:00:00ZWe set out to grow food on every site as a matter of food security. The evidence changed our mind about why, and left us more convinced that the garden belongs. What the machines will have readhttps://www.studioviridian.com/essays/what-the-machines-will-have-read/2026-11-07T12:00:00ZAI is learning to design buildings from the written record of how we already build. That record is nearly silent on reuse, repair and long life. A small firm can help fix that.