Analogous Spaces is an architecture and spatial-design studio that treats the physical archive, the office floor, and the website as versions of the same problem: how do you let a stranger find their way through more than they can hold in their head?
We run a design studio and a research journal side by side, because neither makes full sense without the other.
Offices, libraries, galleries, and homes, designed around how people and information actually move through a space — not just how the elevation looks in a render.
Essays on information architecture, spatial theory, and the history of how buildings and books have organised knowledge, published weekly.
A branch library reorganised around sightlines instead of shelving codes, in a former canal warehouse.
A publishing house headquarters where desk placement was designed as deliberately as the org chart.
An adaptive-reuse gallery where hang height and spacing carry as much of the curatorial argument as the wall text.
Long before there was a network of servers, there was a network of shelves. What the library got right, and where the metaphor breaks.
Archives are not libraries. They preserve the mess of provenance on purpose — and that discipline has something to say about database design.
The single-text-field search box is the end point of a hundred and fifty years of arguing about how a stranger should be allowed to ask a question.
Curators were writing user flows before the term existed. A look at how gallery sequencing shapes what visitors think they discovered on their own.
We take on a small number of studio projects each year, alongside the journal.
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