Working in Context: Lessons from Charleston
The City as a Teacher Designing in Charleston is an exercise in humility. The city’s architecture speaks in centuries, not seasons. Every cornice, balcony, and brick has endured through storms and social change alike. To design here means entering a long-standing conversation—one defined by discipline, craft, and context. At Bittoni Architects, we were i
Architecture Begins With a Good Client
People often assume that great architecture begins with a talented architect. In reality architecture has always been a collaboration. In a recent reflection I wrote that architecture is often the easy part. The harder part is everything that surrounds it. Regulations, economics, timelines, and the long sequence of decisions that determine what ultimately ge