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MORRIS SATO STUDIO - PROFILE

Modern, spacious office with high ceilings and minimalist design.

ARCHITECTURE

DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY

ARCHITECTURE

London born —Irish & US national—Michael Morris and the late —Tokyo, Japan native— Yoshiko Sato both trained in the fine arts prior to studying architecture at The Cooper Union . After graduating in 1989, the pair began teaching at architecture and fine art colleges, completed their professional training and their post-graduate studies (in Ireland and at Harvard respectively), and concurrently engaged in research, competitions, exhibitions, and installations. In 1996 the husband-and-wife opened their transdisciplinary architecture firm in New York City.

Futuristic escalators in a circular, yellow-lit tunnel with two people ascending.

PUBLIC ART

DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY

ARCHITECTURE

Morris Sato Studio work is widely noted for its 'otherworldly' projects that infuse temporal and spatial dimensions with equal parts —material, light and air, combining formal restraint, exacting craft and innovative methods with refined detailing, that intends to create an 'evidence of aura'. In 2006, while teaching at Columbia GSAPP the partners launched their Studio's cosmic research arm —SEArch (Space Exploration Architecture)—now SEArch+ www.spacexarch.com to connect, investigate, and explore life on, between, and beyond Earth.

People sitting on illuminated stools around a floor screen with blue dots and shadows.

DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY

LightShowers, a 'touchstone' of the Studio's research, aims to seamlessly construct architecture, art, design, lighting, material, technology, and fabrication into holistic experiences of health and wellbeing. The immersive- interactive-multimedia presentation, inspired by medical research at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, integrates 'bio-feedback' technology, LED's, and projected video images to align the human breath at rest with universal rhythms of nature. Presented globally, LightShowers was experienced by over 200-thousand visitors.

RESPONSIBILITIES & REUSE

Modern house with geometric design and large windows illuminated at dusk.

"Designing for a world already full", Morris Sato Studio critically engages in ground-up, adaptive reuse, and conservation projects. In dialogue with the past, learning from the ready-made, and toiling like a gardener, the Studio cultivates wonder and opportunities that safeguard and celebrate present and future ecologies through collaborative, multi-generational efforts that honour 'the social contract of giving something back'.

Modern building with large illuminated windows at dusk, showing people inside.

PLACES & COMMUNITIES

INTERIORS

URBAN SUSTAINABILITY

CIVIC LANDSCAPES

Bright modern living space with blue sofa and large windows.

Morris Sato interior's employ the Chinese -Japanese 'borrowed landscape' garden principle to synchapate light, air, matter, texture, and colour with environments outside and beyond.

CIVIC LANDSCAPES

URBAN SUSTAINABILITY

CIVIC LANDSCAPES

An outdoor circular amphitheater on a university campus with people sitting and walking nearby.

By extending the 'borrowed' principle into public exteriors the Studio's process is akin to a gardener's in cultivating all of the senses, fusing the natural, the man-made, with the ephemeral.

URBAN SUSTAINABILITY

Recognizing our climate emergency, Morris Sato is committed to implementing The UN's Sustainable Development Goals in support of all life forms and communities around the globe.

EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS

CULTURAL

COMMERCIAL

Elegant museum interior with wooden ceiling and art displays.

Morris Sato Studio's gardening tropes are most notably displayed in permanent and temporary art museum installations and exhibition designs, galleries, archives, and administrative offices.

COMMERCIAL

Futuristic tunnel-like exhibition booth with Corian and Zodiaq branding.

The commercial spin-offs of Morris Sato’s extensive art museum work are award-winning trade show pavilions, showrooms, medical and hospitality spaces, products,and facilities.

CORPORATE

COMMERCIAL

CORPORATE

For American Express, the Studio spatially narrated the corporation's economic history fusing physical artifacts, financial products, advertisement ephemera with branding.

HEALTHCARE & WELLBEING

A medical professional in scrubs works on a laptop in an operating room.

Morris Sato Studio is committed to improving existing and innovating next-generation medical facilities into resilient, humane, and serviceable spaces for healing on Earth and beyond.

Modern, minimalist operating room with black surgical table and white walls.

Balancing purposeful hygienic and healthy spaces, Morris Sato equally strives to construct quiet, gentle, and contemplative experiences that are accessible, inclusive, and welcoming to all.