Who makes Ground & Frame, and how
Ground & Frame is an independent reference on the design and construction of buildings, published at bergerdevineyaeger.com since 2026.
From first sketch to finished site
Where this domain comes from
Ground & Frame continues the theme this domain carried from 2011 to 2022: architecture - the discipline of designing buildings and the spaces people live, work and gather in.
From 2011 to 2022 this domain was the home of "Berger Devine Yaeger + Architecture + Interiors + Planning", run by its original owner. The domain was acquired in 2026 and Ground & Frame is now an independent publication on the same theme, with no relation to the previous owner.
Ground & Frame did not exist before 2026; the years above belong to the former site, not to this one.
What this domain was
This domain has served the subject of architecture for well over a decade. A studio site covered the discipline from 2011 to 2022, with 501 archive captures across 284 distinct paths and 623 referring domains still recorded in the link history. Around that era it carried brief stints as an intro page and a bare domain page, and for one year it stood expired. What it has kept throughout is the same subject: architecture, the design of the buildings people live, work and gather in.
- Era
- 2011 to 2022
- Former title
- Berger Devine Yaeger + Architecture + Interiors + Planning
- Archive
- 501 captures and 284 addresses
- Links
- 623 referring domains
- Inherited addresses still answering
- 5 addresses
Why this subject, and why here
The discipline behind the address is alive because buildings never stop being made. Every year a new generation of homes, workplaces and public spaces goes from a first sketch to a finished site, and the questions around that route keep turning up: what a design studio actually does, which sectors it serves, what materials and methods shape the work, and what a project costs from brief to build. A clear account of those questions serves students, curious readers and anyone about to commission or live inside a building.
Ground & Frame came to this address in 2026 as a new and independent project, unaffiliated with anything the domain held before. It is a reference on the design and construction of buildings: what a design studio does, the sectors it serves, and the route from brief to built. It inherits the subject and the audience this domain has long pointed to, and nothing else. Its standing is plain, and its pages say so.
It will not carry the former studio's project portfolio or named buildings, because that identity belongs to the previous owner. It will not run news, awards or studio announcements, because anything whose truth depends on a date decays month to month while a reference stands. It will not publish hiring calls or office locations of any specific studio, since those are bound to one firm and one moment, not to the subject it explains.
Sources, method and corrections
The numbers on these pages come from named sources: archive capture lists, the link dossier, and a figures file that records each sourced number with where it was taken from. A figure gets on a page only when its source is logged in that file, and the page states the source alongside it. When two sources disagree, the page says so, and the difference is what readers get.
Pages are written in plain prose, checked against the figure file and against the rules of the reference, and published only when every claim is sourced. There is no mailbox, no inbox and no phone line to write to. Corrections land in the next edition, where the record is fixed and the change is noted.
Corrections are applied in the next build.
What you find now, and what comes next
The sections below cover the subject the way this reference organises it: the discipline first, then the work it does and the field around it.
The plan is 70 pages in all: 15 core and 55 outer. Fifteen are published now and the remaining 55 are scheduled across six months, from 2026-09 to 2027-03, with every number drawn from the figures file.