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COAXIAL: MONTOTO DESIGN is an architectural and design practice founded by professor Román Montoto, architect ncarb with a focus on commissions, consultations, and collaborations in Wisconsin and Illinois. The practice intends to transcend delineation between academic experimentation and professional practice. Here, the academic design studio emerges as a laboratory where hypothesis, experimentation, and critique reveal unique possibilities for practice. The mix of academia and service to clients leads to a COAXIAL practice where architectural problems (people, place, function, experience, etc.) synergize with the unexpected for the discovery of new territories for the design of our built environment. This COAXIAL, multi-layered, sensibility to practice is reinforced by its multi-disciplined nature including graphic design, architectural illustration, and architectural practice. This allows the work of COAXIAL: Montoto Design to transcend disciplinarity; finding unique solutions for the needs of 2-, 3-, and 4-dimensional challenges.

Professor Román Montoto, architect ncarb studied architecture and art history & criticism in his hometown of Milwaukee, WI at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; earning a BA, BSAS, and MArch. He is a licensed architect in Wisconsin and Illinois with NCARB certification. Román held a tenured full-professorship in the Architecture Program at the University of Idaho's College of Art & Architecture for 15 years. Finding his way back home, he now holds a full-time professor position in the Interior Architecture Program at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. With over 20 years of experience in both architectural practice and academia, his work and the work of his students include regionally, nationally, and internationally recognized writings, presentations, illustrations, and projects.