InForm Architecture

12/17/2025

Honored to be recognized by the judges in the Homes for the Holiday's Gingerbread House Contest! Our entry is still on display at Gazelle Sports and will be for a few more days if you haven't had a chance to see it in person yet.

12/07/2025

Presenting "The Frosty Residence", now on display at Gazelle Sports as part of the 5th annual Homes for the Holidays Gingerbread House Contest by Community Homeworks. Vote here now!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YFYM78D

The Frosty Residence
A Sugary Seasonal Retreat

Designed for a cheerful family of snowfolk, the Frosty Residence brings together cozy confectionery craftsmanship and wintry charm to create a home meant for merriment, warmth of spirit, and year-round (sub-freezing) comfort.

Inspired by an actual home designed by InForm Architecture, the building pairs a scrumptious homemade gingerbread structure with high-contrast Oreo piers and warm pirouline wafer columns. Carefully crafted candy-glass windows with licorice frames capture the glint of holiday lights. Balanced massing ensures every space feels intentional—celebrating festive gatherings and the magic of each snowfall.

Throughout the home, gingerbread, icing, and candy harmonize to create a place where snowfolk thrive. Outdoors a glossy corn-syrup pool and caramel retaining wall create a playful landscape for frosty fun amongst the upturned ice-cream cone trees.

Whether hosting cocoa-scented evenings or daydreaming—just a little—of what life might be like in summer, this sweet retreat is designed to delight in every season.

12/05/2025

Our team has been hard at work the past few weeks attempting to build one of our designs ourselves--out of gingerbread! Community Homeworks annual Gingerbread House Contest begins today. See the final result of our labor in the window at Gazelle Sports and be sure to vote for your favorite house! (Which will be ours right? Ours is pretty cool. You could even call it frosty.)

https://communityhomeworks.org/news/gingerbreadhousekzoo/

11/22/2025

🥳Congrats to the Kalamazoo Farmers Market on the newest addition to their Bank Street site!

We were proud to stand alongside project partners— OCBA, InForm Architecture , and Owen-Ames-Kimball —to celebrate the completion of the new Don Cooney Cultivation Center earier this week.

This thoughtfully designed space honors the legacy of Commissioner Don Cooney, who just concluded 26 years of dedicated service to the City of Kalamazoo.

The center will host weekly winter markets, community gatherings, and serve as the primary home for Kzoo Parks’ after-school programming—creating a year-round hub for connection, learning, and local pride.

11/22/2025

04/05/2023

03/27/2023

02/21/2023

The 1802 East Main property went from this to THIS!!! It is still under construction but is showing great promise. 🙂

12/15/2022

At the recent AIA Southwest Michigan Award Celebration, Steve Hassevoort, AIA, was honored with the 2022 Impact Award.

This award recognizes recent outstanding impact in the architectural profession and/or the community by a registered architect. As a principal at InForm Architecture, Steve has challenged the notions of what a conventional client looks like and has spearheaded numerous community-focused projects around Kalamazoo. This has helped to shape the INFORM Architecture portfolio to focus on strengthening communities and providing opportunities for all.

12/15/2022

Kalamazoo Farmers Market was awarded the 2022 Southwest Michigan American Public Works Association’s Project of the Year Award for Quality of Life, for projects greater than $1M.

INFORM Architecture teamed with Prein and Newhof, and OCBA Landscape Architects to re-image and define the New Kalamazoo Farmers Market. We are grateful for the opportunity and the trust from the City of Kalamazoo Parks and Recreation Department to enhance one of our Kalamazoo community’s traditions.

The award exemplifies the goals of the project and aligns with the mission of the Kalamazoo Farmers Market.

12/15/2022

We were excited to participate in the groundbreaking yesterday for the first of three buildings that will make up the Eastside Square project. Four years in the making, the project is located on East Main Street in Kalamazoo’s Eastside Neighborhood. This project will re-establish a commercial hub for the Eastside neighborhood and provide a unique opportunity for affordable home ownership on the Eastside. We congratulate the Land Bank and its dedicated staff and supporters on this latest venture.

In attendance: (from left to right) Ryan Vliestra - Glas Associates, Thomas Whitener – Kalamazoo County Treasurer, Pat Taylor - Eastside Neighborhood Association, Julie Rogers - State Rep. 60th House District, Tami Rey - Kalamazoo County Commissioner, Sidney Ellis - Kalamazoo County Land Bank Authority, Eric Hackman - InForm Architecture, David Anderson – City of Kalamazoo Mayor.

12/06/2022

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After working for 26 years, Norwida Sweder spent 17 months unhoused before moving into Kalamazoo's new housing project that used to be a motel.