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Michael K Chen at his studio in New York City. Photo: Max Burkhalter. All images courtesy of Michael K Chen Architecture. Michael K Chen Architecture is a seven-piece, New York-based design practice whose exuberant sense of creativity playfully blends the boundaries between architecture, interior and product design while avoiding expected style labels. But for Chen, as he tells us in our latest Studio Snapshot, his firm's dedication is about more than just well-designed client projects: as a co-founder of the nonprofit Design Advocates, he helped connect independent design teams with NYC pub...

Studio BANAA founding partners Nastaran Mousavi and Dane Bunton, at their new studio space, a converted horse stable in San Francisco's Mission District. Photo: Katja Bresch. All images courtesy of Studio BANAA. For our latest Studio Snapshot, Archinect had the pleasure of chatting with Nastaran Mousavi and Dane Bunton, founding partners of San Francisco-based architecture practice Studio BANAA. Hailing from different corners of the world — Dane is a Bay Area native and Nastaran grew up in Northern Iran — the two have been steadily fusing their diverse backgrounds with the city's eclect...