Founding Principal, Tosin Odugbemi Hoskins, has recently been featured in the September 2025 issue of Architecture New York State, published by AIA New York State. Her essay, “A Ribbon of Redress: Reclaiming Formalism for Human-Centred Design in Harlem,” explores how the tools of architectural formalism (grids, datum lines, proportions) can be reimagined as mediums of memory, ritual, and spatial affirmation. Rooted in speculative work set in Harlem, the piece introduces a conceptual design methodology called the ribbon of redress: a metaphorical and spatial thread that challenges exclusionary norms and reclaims beauty for those historically written out of the architectural canon.

The essay is grounded in two of Atelier Oluwatosin’s unbuilt projects:

• MÉLANGE, a culinary commons that celebrates Black diasporic hybridity through monumental brick massing and gathering alcoves, and

• BODY-ODY-ODY, a boutique wellness and retail concept that subverts classical proportions by centring voluptuous bodies as sites of measure, movement, and design.

This piece reflects our studio’s ongoing commitment to design that is rigorous, poetic, and radically inclusive.