BLDUS

Architecture

Anacostia

Materials

Research

Process

Contact

Close

Office

BLDUS works out of the Grass House, a contextual LEED-Platinum accessory structure at the foot of the Frederick Douglass House. It is the first code-compliant bamboo building on the East Coast.

Jack Becker AIA

Experience

Becker Architects
FX Fowle
Quinn Evans Architects
R. McGhee & Associates
SGA Companies
Urban Investment Partners

Teaching

VT WAAC

Education

Cornell BArch 2011
Harvard MAUD 2013

Andrew Linn

Experience

Arquitectonica
Fantastic Norway
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Tigerman McCurry

Teaching

CUA
UMD
VT WAAC

Education

Cornell BArch 2011
Yale MA History of Science

Adam Ainslie Assoc. AIA

Experience

LTL Architects
MOS Architects
Cameron Wu

Teaching

CUA
UMD

Education

Princeton BA 2017
Princeton MArch 2020

Collaborators

  • AKA Studio
  • Artwork
  • Rosewood

Photographs

  • Grass House – Ty Cole
  • Adelaide Alley – Ty Cole
  • Cedar Houses – Ty Cole
  • Poplar Cloud – Ty Cole
  • Maple View – Ty Cole
  • River View – Andrew Linn
  • Swampy Hollow – Michael Vahrenwald

Website & Graphics

  • Graphic Design – Studio Lin
  • Website Programmer – Eric Price

Renderings

  • Prospect Houses – Shawn P. Michael
  • Fairland – Shawn P. Michael
  • Cedar Grove / Mailou – Shawn P. Michael
  • Overbeck – Shawn P. Michael
  • Catlett – Shawn P. Michael
  • Dalvi – Shawn P. Michael
  • Temple – Shawn P. Michael
  • Piney Branch – Shawn P. Michael
  • Broad Branch – Shawn P. Michael
  • Hill House – Shawn P. Michael
  • The Sparrows – Shawn P. Michael
  • Summit House – Shawn P. Michael
  • Port Tobacco – Shawn P. Michael
  • Highland Beach – Shawn P. Michael
  • Cliffside Cabin – Shawn P. Michael
  • Noble Farm – Shawn P. Michael
  • Westover – Shawn P. Michael
  • Grandview – Theo Morrow
  • Mailou Alley – Theo Morrow
  • Noon Alley – Theo Morrow

Honors

  • 2022
    AIA Long Island
    Chapter Design Award - Small Projects Any Category
  • 2021
    AIA
    Young Architects Award
  • 2020
    An Interior
    Top 50 Interior Firm
  • 2020
    USGBC
    Responsible Design Award
  • 2019
    Architect’s Newspaper
    Young Architects Award
  • 2019
    Architect’s Newspaper
    Best New Materials Award
  • 2019
    Washingtonian
    Residential Design Award
  • 2019
    AIA DC
    Chapter Design Award
  • 2019
    AIA DC
    People’s Choice Award