James Hill
Participant Statement
A registered architect and partner at Fultz & Singh Architects, seized on the ideas of craft, material, and authenticity as defining elements of the design process while studying architecture at Virginia Tech. He further explored these concepts during his years of working as a designer for a multi-disciplinary fabrication shop, studying the limitations of materials, processes, and joinery.
Since joining FSA in 2016, James' work has spanned a wide range of project scales and types, with much of that work being adaptive reuse, focused on finding creative and respectful ways of engaging the existing historic fabric of the city with contemporary interventions.
James is also an artist and printmaker, owning Lightbox Print Co with his wife Meredith. He sees the printmaking process as analogous to that of constructing a building, having one eye on the final vision while building up layer by layer.
Project Statement
As an architect and artist, I'm interested in the dialogue between old and new and the building up of layers over time. No idea or construct can ever really stand on it's own and is always being informed by the it's context in time and space. A constant conversation with those who have come before us. I'm interested in the vernacular patterns and languages that stem from these conversations that are specific to a place, but that have slowly developed and built-up over time. Moments that are built out of necessity to solve a problem with given restraints and context.
