Unearthed Practice is an environmental design studio operating at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, ecology, and education. We’re interested in the everyday things people tend to overlook and approach design as a process of excavation—revealing latent conditions and histories embedded within sites, materials, systems, and cultures. Valuing interdisciplinary thought and collaboration, we work across scales and mediums, allowing ideas to migrate between buildings, furniture, installations, narratives, and games.
Our work emerges from a tension between concern for the accelerating impacts of climate change and an enduring optimism about design’s capacity to foster resilient, connected communities. We see design as a critical and creative act that can reveal new ways of imagining collective futures. Within this space, we are drawn to the stories places tell, the forces that shape them, and the possibilities they hold in transforming what is already present into something newly legible. Through drawing, modeling, writing, playing, and constructing, we create work that invites new forms of engagement with the world around us.
We’re always open to new ideas, new collaborators, and new directions.
If you’re wondering what we might create together, just ask… “What’s UP?”
Co-Founder
Christopher is an assistant professor and architecture program coordinator at the Marywood University School of Architecture in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He previously served as the 2023–2025 Robert L. Wesley Teaching Fellow at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on relational networks, narrative design, environmental and climate justice, the American School of Architecture, and play in design education. Christopher holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University.
Teaching Website Here
Jordan Loofs, Assoc. AIA
Co-Founder
Jordan is an environmental designer and photographer whose work spans residential, cultural, and hospitality projects in the United States and abroad. Her experience includes design positions at Atelje Sotamaa, ADG Blatt, Bogle Design Group, and Haddon+Cowan Architects, as well as teaching at the University of Oklahoma. Her work combines architectural design, photography, and visual representation across a range of scales. Jordan is currently a Master of Architecture candidate at the Princeton University School of Architecture. She holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University, where she also completed a minor in New Media Art.
Photography Website Here