IS/WAS works to uncover new methodologies of preservation.

IS/WAS produces critical research regarding memory, culture, and heritage.

IS/WAS is unapologetic — it sees abandonment + ruin as opportunity.  

IS/WAS finds inspiration in spatial appropriation, emptiness, vegetal overtake, + the architectural fragment.

IS/WAS works at the fringe of architecture to produce artifacts, publications, + spectacle.