Considered, not fast
We take fewer projects and give each the time it needs. Slow is how buildings end up feeling inevitable.
About the practice
A small studio with a long view
Hosanna is an architecture practice based in Boston, working across homes, culture, and the workplace throughout New England. We keep the studio small on purpose — so every commission has a partner's attention from the first sketch to the last detail.
The practice was founded in Boston in 2018 by Michael Hosanna and Remon Henala, who had spent a decade building for larger firms and wanted to work more slowly and more completely — to stay with a project long enough to get it right.
We work in section and in daylight. Before a plan is fixed we test it against the site: how the light falls through the year, how a room is entered, what a wall is made of and how it will weather. Nothing is specified that we would not be happy to live beside in twenty years.
Today the studio is a team of eight, taking on a handful of new commissions each year across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine. We remain deliberately selective — we take the work we can give our full attention, and we decline the rest.
How we work
Detailed in-house
Every drawing is ours. We do not hand the details to someone else — the care is in the joints.
Built to age well
We specify for the long run: honest materials, generous daylight, and rooms that improve with use.
A building should feel inevitable — as if the site had been waiting for it.
Michael Hosanna & Remon Henala, Founding partners
2018
Practice founded, Boston
42
Completed commissions
11
Awards & citations
3
States built across
The studio
Michael Hosanna
Founding partner
Remon Henala
Founding partner