von Staden Architects. We are a boutique architecture and design firm with a collaborative studio located in Royal Oak, MI. and a fabrication shop in Detroit, MI. Our practice focuses on creating environments that spark change, re-invention, and diversity within our Community. Our work is catalysts for change in Detroit, Royal Oak, Metamora, Ferndale and elsewhere. Our work is diverse, responsive to each context. We discover through conversations and explore through story telling. Our work inspires making, building, creating, honing, restoring, thinking. It is informed by respect for making.