Build Lightly Studio

build lightly studio is a design/build collaborative pairing architecture professionals with university students to design, construct, and deliver projects to community clients in various locations around the world. co-founded in 2010 by miriam gee and jason selley, build lightly is centered around projects that present a local design challenge that is both meaningful to the community and engaging to the design/build team involved. build lightly studio participants wield pencils and hammers in the same day, and learn the effectiveness of working in a team, while using a consensus-based design approach. participants not only gain knowledge and skills in design and construction, but they walk away with a sense of client responsibility and community stewardship — all while delivering beautiful, affordable, and useful structures that tread lightly on the land, to end-users who would not otherwise be able afford professional services. since the launch of its inaugural project through the un