Cocktails & Conversations: Deborah Berke and Cathleen McGuigan

“We take clues from what’s around us because none of our work is what we call spatula architecture—the kind of building that you can slide a spatula under, lift up, and put somewhere else. That is profoundly what we don’t do. Obviously with adaptive reuse, one cannot do spatula architecture, but in new buildings we get our initial creative inspiration from the things around us—whether it’s a built or natural context or the story or the smell of the place.” - Deborah Berke