“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”

—  William Faulkner

Hobgood Architects is a family operated architecture practice located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.  The office was founded by Kenneth Hobgood in 1993 and went on to receive numerous awards and has been featured in international publications and exhibitions.  In 2013 Patrick Hobgood, along with his brother Paul, took over the day to day operations of the design studio.  This change also marked a shift in the studio’s singular approach to architecture design. 

Today the office is driven by a collaborative process allowing everyone to partake in the design process.  While the studio remains dedicated to contemporary architecture, there is no set formal aesthetic, nor a singular typology, or scale of specialty.  Recent work highlights this variety, ranging from residential, religious, municipal, cultural, and institutional.  Those projects include a mosque in Durham, a contemporary art foundation in Tehran, a town hall with police and fire stations on the coast of North Carolina, a beach house in Miami, a creative campus in Atlanta, the US office for a Dutch textile company in North Carolina, and an adaptive reuse of a concrete factory in Iran.  Working as generalists, as opposed to specialists, brings a new freedom in the design process.  As Faulkner’s advice to what a writer needs, we believe the same applies to the field of architecture.  Experience, observation, and imagination when applied as a whole result in unique, often unexpected results that always challenge the status quo.