Hey there! My name is Andy Bruno. In 2020, I started a project called One House Per Day. Around January 15 of that year, I began posting a daily drawing to Instagram. Each drawing depicted an imagined house through a plan, section, and isometric. The drawings had a consistent, simple graphic language and had the simple goal of getting at least one idea about architecture out of my head and onto paper every day. By the end of the year, there were 365 drawings, one for each day. The deeper motivation for the project is tied inextricably to the architecture profession’s failure to sustain the creativity of its young practitioners - at that point I was four years out of grad school and had never held a job in the profession of architecture that consistently involved intellectually stimulating work. In fact, to this day I still haven’t. So an underlying fear was that if an opportunity ever did arise for me to do creative work, that my design skills would be too rusty to rise to the challenge after so many years of banal professional work. So One House Per Day, in addition to being a slow meditation on my long-running interests in the single-family house and American domesticity, was also simply a way of feeling like I was keeping my design skills sharp.
Why “and other projects?” Well, it’s like a collection of short stories by an author with a very well-known book. For an example from my shelf, a collection of stories by Joseph Conrad - you come for Heart of Darkness but if you stick around for other stories, you acquire a fuller picture not just of the author in general, but of the well-known work as well. Nothing else that I’ve done has come close to having the reach of One House Per Day, but One House Per Day is an outgrowth of a long-running series of preoccupations and interests that predate and will outlive it. This website of personal work puts One House Per Day in that context. I hope you enjoy it.