Our Service
StudioLowe offers comprehensive design services for every stage of a building’s realization. All of our designs, from private dwellings to affordable housing complexes, create architecture that is both delightful while being accountable to the forces of housing and environmental insecurity. One way our designs balance beauty and ethics is through the use of sustainable, reclaimed and salubrious building materials wherever possible.
We specialize in adaptive reuse, renovations, ADU design, interiors, aging in place (AIP) design, affordable housing solutions, restaurant design, co-housing design and new construction. We will help you conceive your project or site through design research, design feasibility studies, vision plans, architectural visualizations, and context studies. And we will deliver your project from concept to construction, with the utmost care.
Who we are
StudioLowe Design is led by Taylor Lowe. Taylor is a designer, educator, theorist, and cultural anthropologist with over 15 years experience designing homes, restaurants, schools, hospice centers, and hotels. He is Associate member of AIA and a CAPS certified Aging in Place designer. Taylor holds the position of Associate Director at metaLAB at Harvard University, an independent multi-disciplinary laboratory dedicated to modeling new forms of cultural communication, creative and critical practice, and knowledge production.
During almost a decade practicing and teaching architectural design in Bangkok, Taylor became fascinated by the discussions around him that attributed to architecture the power to improve behaviors, reform politics, and build better relations. He decided to study this phenomena as a cultural anthropologist, trained to observe the social processes that architecture materialized in words, materials, habits and architectural spaces.
Having completed his PhD at the University of Chicago, Taylor moved from Bangkok to Cambridge as a Postdoctoral Fellow at metaLAB at Harvard University, and an employee fellow at the Berkman Klein Institute at Harvard Law School. Despite the rigors of his Fellowship, Taylor could not stop designing, completing three residential projects in the Boston area while creating academic articles and completing his dissertation. In December 2024, Taylor decided to open StudioLowe.
When not designing, Taylor is completing his current book project, Design-ification: Design Activism and Cosmopolitical Representation in Thailand. To understand the possibilities that design has created for political action in Bangkok today, he conducted an 18-month ethnographic study of self-described ‘design activists’ working to transform Thai society through their design of government architecture. Across his work, he asks: why is design a medium for politics, what politics can its processes afford, and what subjects does it create?
Taylor holds a Masters in Architecture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. His work has been exhibited at the AEDES Gallery in Berlin, the Sullivan Studios in Chicago, and the Ladakhi Arts and Media Organization in Ladakh, India. He has taught architecture and social theory at Chulalongkorn University, Cornell University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Chicago.