• 2022…

    Yes, it’s over halfway over, but here was the AAA Holiday Card from January…

  • View between 2 bedroom residence on left and garage/studio on the right

    Net Zero House at The Sea Ranch

    AAA has a new project under construction at The Sea Ranch in Sonoma County. This two-bedroom house has been designed to incorporate a number of Passive house strategies to achieve a Net Zero Energy design. A spacious south-facing deck connects the residence to the studio on the right.

  • Randolph in Record Houses

    A few years back, I had the opportunity to help one San Francisco’s most talented architects with a project in Pebble Beach. Jim Jennings needed help developing the construction details for this amazing house and hired AAA as a consultant. The results were featured in the annual Architectural Record Houses issue in April. It was…

  • Happy 2020…

    Sigh. Yeah, so 2020 has not been the best, but this card was a nice start.

  • Chinese Immigrant Railroad Workers Installation

    On May 10th, 1869, the First Transcontinental Railway was completed in Utah. This enormous project lasted over seven years and required the contributions of thousands of workers, including many recent immigrants. AAA designed and built the installation for a traveling exhibit celebrating the Chinese immigrants that helped build the Central Pacific Railway. More on this…

  • Happy 2019…

    I was pretty keen on this one. It owes a bit to Igarashi Takenobu, who is amazing.

  • Happy 2018?!

    Okay, so I have not been updating this thing like I should. I started to put more effort into updating AAA’s presence on f*cebook, and ended up neglecting this website. Well, I’ve largely given up on the world’s premier social network, so here we are revisiting the missing greeting cards I make every year. Enjoy!

  • Our Upper Rockridge Residence is on the Market

    As seen in Curbed and Socketsite, our Upper Rockridge Residence, designed in collaboration with Benjamin Parco, is now on the market and getting attention for its striking, detail-oriented architecture. If you’re looking for a cozy home with a homey, warm feel to it that shouts Norman Rockwell luxe, beat it. This isn’t the place for…

  • SOUPERgreen! the Book is Here!

    Saturday, June 10th at 3:00pm Discussion & Book Signing with Author: DOUG JACKSON With Wes Jones, Marc Neveu, Aryan Crawford Omar, Steven Purvis, Randolph Ruiz, and Mohamed Sharif — SOUPERgreen!—Souped Up Green Architecture features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the prevailing approach to “green” architecture and, in turn, demonstrate a…