The lineage of our studio culture of customization and 1:1 physical mock-ups can be traced back to one bullet-shaped brick and a gigantic chunk of a building.

The first is the black Endicott brick that gleams silvery when hit by sunlight, custom-shaped to form the horizontal striations of the Yale Health Center building’s dynamic, undulating facades.

The latter is the life-sized prototype of the building’s most dramatically inclined section–a micro building in its own right–constructed on the ground of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. The micro building counts as the very first building in the architectural career of our Design Director Bea, completed early in her 5-year term at Mack Scogin Merrill Elam [MSME] Architects, in Atlanta, Georgia, in which she earned a tremendous learning experience from participating in all phases of this project as a member of the core design team. She owes a debt of gratitude to her mentor & professor, Mack Scogin, for instilling in her the exemplary design processes, tectonics and work ethics that have become Beautbureau’s to this day.

Photos of Yale Health Center by Tim Hursley, courtesy of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects