Meet the Team
Daniel Temple, NCARB
Principal
A licensed architect who cut his chops working at such firms as Olson Kundig and the Miller Hull Partnership, Daniel and his wife Alaina founded Notion Workshop in 2018. Daniel’s background is woodworking and architecture. He apprenticed in a millwork shop at the age of 16. By 20 he had his own shop, making cabinets, windows, custom doors and furniture for high end residential and commercial projects. He later went on to study architecture at University of Idaho where he received his M.Arch and was the AIA Henry Adams recipient. While at university he also taught architectural rendering and Revit at the graduate level and honed his own rendering skills. For his thesis he fully modeled and rendered a 3D animation of his project which was nominated by CGArchitect for the student film award.
When he’s not working on the latest project, Daniel is off at the river doing ‘Lunar Orbits’ and ‘Phonics Monkeys’ in his kayak. If you don’t know what those maneuvers are, neither did we. Daniel is apparently as good at doing crazy moves in a kayak as he is at making a rendered cedar soffit look like you could press your thumbnail right into it.
Alaina Temple,
Studio Director
Alaina grew up the daughter of a carpenter. From an early age she was hanging out at job sites, sweeping up sawdust and watching walls go up. She’s always had a strong desire to make, build, craft. After studying architecture at the University of Washington she landed her first job designing small cabins in the woods which was a thrill. From that job at Balance Associates, Architects (now PBW Architects) she moved on to Heliotrope Architects where she focused on retail and restaurant design, honing her attention to the smallest details.
Alaina is a stay at home mother of four, avid cyclist, and part time Studio Director at Notion (shout out to the babysitter for making it happen!).
Experiencing the Unbuilt
The Poetics and the Business of Rendering
Montana State University - Department of Architecture
Lecture, October 2020
Daniel and Alaina titled their presentation ‘The Poetics and the Business of Rendering’ as they sought to not only offer a glimpse into the process of crafting images of unbuilt architecture, but to fill the students in on some of the ins and outs of running a small business. Having both started out in their shoes in Architecture school a number of years ago they shared their own experiences working in the traditional practice of Architecture and then transitioning to roles related to, but separate from, that practice.