The Architect Who Sketched a Room She Had Never Seen

In 2019, a young couple in Asheville, North Carolina, hired architect Dana Morales to design their first home. During the initial consultation, they handed over a rough wish list — three bedrooms, an open kitchen, a reading nook. Standard requests. But when Dana presented her first draft two weeks later, the wife began to cry. There, tucked into the northeast corner of the second floor, was a small studio with angled skylights and a deep utility sink — a pottery studio.…