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WARD 2 is an architecture, interiors and graphics firm that pursues great design through a grounded understanding of people and place. With sturdy boots, pencil in hand, and eagerness for the unknown, we study each commission's unique history, politics, context, conflicts, and desires. It's from these roots that we tease out opportunities for craft, innovation, and sense of wonder.

We started as young designers living and working in Ward 2, a rapidly changing neighborhood in Somerville, Massachusetts. We soaked in the vibrant energy and youthful excitement of our environment and honed our own quirky and unique persepectives to contribute to the conversations and ideas around us. Now located in the city of Medford, we still find inspiration in our roots as well as our ever-evolving envioronments and outlooks. Our creativity comes not from thin air but from hard work and a profound sense of grounding in place.

Our projects range in type, scale, and location - from graphics to furniture to buildings. We are trained in architecture, but we'll design anything.

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I-Ching Katie Scott
Master in Architecture - Harvard University
Bachelor of Arts - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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I-Ching settled in Massachusetts by way of Taiwan, Michigan and California. She studied sociology and cello performance and blazed through the dot-com era as an information designer before attending architecture school. She worked for firms Skidmore Owings and Merrill in New York and Chicago, and Utile in Boston. She was the lead designer for The Hiphop Archive at Harvard University while working at Utile. She also designed the gut renovation of a chemistry lab at Warner Babcock Green Chemistry Lab while working for Kao Design Group. I-Ching is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Mark Brady Scott, AIA
Master in Architecture - Harvard University
Bachelor of Arts - Harvard College
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Mark is a licensed architect in Massachusetts and Maryland.
He is a Baltimorian who transplanted to the Boston area and stayed. A fine arts major at Harvard College, magna cum laude, Mark then graduated from the Graduate School of Design with distinction. He spent a year traveling and painting in South America before working for Foster + Partners in London and William Rawn Associates in Boston. He was the project architect for Temple Beth Eloheim in Wellesley, finished in 2010 and is currently working on a dormitory at Harvard Business School for William Rawn Associates. Mark speaks Spanish.

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