Holloway & Vale

Architecture of consequence
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Holloway & Vale · est. 2009
Architecture of consequence. Architecture of memory. Architecture of place.

A studio of fourteen, working from Charleston and Aspen on residential estates, boutique hospitality, and a small number of public commissions each year.

We take on what we can attend to, and we attend to everything.

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Selected for AD100 · 2023
— 01 Selected Work
— 02 · A Position

On what we
make.

We design houses, hotels, and rooms that we intend to last several human lifetimes. We work in stone, timber, plaster, brass — materials that age with grace, that gather meaning rather than shed it.

We do not chase the seasonal. We are uninterested in the trend, the photograph that flatters at the expense of the room, the gesture made to be seen rather than lived in.

What we make should feel inevitable. Like the house was always there, and we simply uncovered it.

Margaret Holloway, AIA · Design Principal
Selected Recognition
AD100 · 2023 Top Architects · 2024 Honor Award · 2022 Inspired Communities · 2021 The American House · 2024 Top 100 · 2023
— 03 From the Journal
Essay March 2024

On the Patience of Limestone

A small consideration of why we have, for fifteen years, returned to a single quarry outside Bardstown, Kentucky.

Margaret Holloway
Field Note January 2024

The Slow Door

Three months of work, four samples, two trips to the foundry — for a single piece of door hardware no one will think to admire.

Theodore Vale
— Begin

Most projects begin with
a long, unhurried conversation.

If you have a place — or the suggestion of one — we would be glad to hear about it.

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