Studio James Carpenter / JCDA is a unique studio that grew out of the Environmental Art world of the 1970’s into an internationally recognized art/architectural design studio whose foundational principles place the presence of nature, environmental sustainability and the individuals deep experience of place at the center of each project. With the studio’s unique knowledge base of working with light, materials, structure and the craft of making, each project in its own unique way embraces and amplifies a site’s natural characteristics and a community’s traditions of use by connecting people to each other, to their history and to their ecology.