Pronounced "he-low", hilo is an eponymous art and design studio located in Washington, DC. Named for the childhood nickname of award-winning Japanese-American architect Hiroshi Jacobs, the studio strives to make every project people-centric - interrogating how people relate to space and each other.
Clients and collaborators include CulturalDC, Ditto Residential, Studios Architecture, Georgetown BID, Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners, and Mount Vernon Triangle CID, among others.
The practice has been published in Surface Magazine, Dezeen, DC Modern Luxury, Designboom, Suckerpunch, Bloomberg Businessweek, and On TAP, among others.