Provacative and Unprofessional
mbaran7
  • May 15, 2017
  • 3 min

Provacative and Unprofessional

While it’s useful to rely on consistency and standardization when it comes to making buildings, it doesn’t typically inspire creativity....
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Architecture as Product
hello26970
  • Mar 24, 2017
  • 4 min

Architecture as Product

The first time I heard architecture referred to as “product” I was thrown back. We were meeting with our client, the developer of Station...
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mbaran7
  • Feb 11, 2017
  • 1 min

Creative and Commercial?

A Mike Wallace interview is sampled in a Flight Facilities track I happen to be listening to this morning, and I decided to look It up...
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Architectural Glitches
mbaran7
  • Sep 19, 2016
  • 3 min

Architectural Glitches

The process of making is not typically linear. Direction can be reversed and lateral moves made as various directions fail to prove...
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Architecture and Obedience
mbaran7
  • Jul 5, 2016
  • 4 min

Architecture and Obedience

We generally think and do as we are told by authority, or by mass momentum (which comes first, or if they’re interchangeable, I’m not...
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hello26970
  • May 25, 2016
  • 2 min

Not a Manifesto

In light of my recent ‘Design Manifesto’ interview with Modelo, I’ve returned to the manifestos I studied as a college student, and I...
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Don’t be afraid of Modernism. It’s dead. 
mbaran7
  • Dec 31, 2015
  • 4 min

Don’t be afraid of Modernism. It’s dead. 

When I’m told “this modernism thing isn’t going to last” I feel like I just emerged from a time machine in 1905. Modernism was not a...
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The Perfection of Imperfection
mbaran7
  • May 5, 2015
  • 1 min

The Perfection of Imperfection

Decay and disintegration are simply factors of time.  Nothing lasts, change is constant.  The natural process of dematerialization is...
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Architecture is Dead. Long Live Architecture.
mbaran7
  • Mar 29, 2015
  • 5 min

Architecture is Dead. Long Live Architecture.

In the beginning of 2015, there was a great deal of talk about architecture in ‘crisis’, and I found it simultaneously fascinating and...
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Improvised Architecture: Who We Are Is What We Do
mbaran7
  • Feb 21, 2015
  • 4 min

Improvised Architecture: Who We Are Is What We Do

The foundation of adaptable characteristics are present in most people at a young age. For a child it is difficult to understand that it...
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Living is a Machine for Architecture
mbaran7
  • Jan 26, 2015
  • 4 min

Living is a Machine for Architecture

Cyborgs might be the stuff of science fiction horror films, but I for one am looking forward to continued opportunities to augment myself...
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Against Style: Architecture and Process
mbaran7
  • Jan 11, 2015
  • 4 min

Against Style: Architecture and Process

Style in architecture is useless as a design tool. It is a formula usually derived from a kit of parts which are applied (like make-up,...
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Box Love
mbaran7
  • Dec 26, 2014
  • 4 min

Box Love

Perhaps we should start with a definition of box: Box. bäks/ noun 1. a container with a flat base and sides, typically square or...
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Conflict, Architecture, and an Ugly Messy Grayscale Tapestry
mbaran7
  • Dec 17, 2014
  • 3 min

Conflict, Architecture, and an Ugly Messy Grayscale Tapestry

Conflict and its relationship to architecture may involve something as catastrophic as a border skirmish, or as mundane as a disagreement...
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Loss, Impermanence, and the Trace in Design
mbaran7
  • Dec 1, 2014
  • 3 min

Loss, Impermanence, and the Trace in Design

Parallels between architecture and psychology fascinate me. Not in the sense of environmental psychology, or the psychological effects of...
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Creativity, Cognitive Flexibility, and the End of Genius
mbaran7
  • Nov 23, 2014
  • 3 min

Creativity, Cognitive Flexibility, and the End of Genius

“It’s not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It’s just a waste of energy.” Jan Kaplicky (1937-2009) There has...
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mbaran7
  • Nov 9, 2014
  • 3 min

Ayn Rand vs Woody Allen?

Objectivism, postmodernism, adaptability, flexibility, maybe mediocrity and compromise. I’ve done it again, wasted a perfectly good...
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Generation Flux
mbaran7
  • Nov 4, 2014
  • 2 min

Generation Flux

Adaptability is paramount in modern business according to the folks in this recent Fast Company issue. Several of the individuals...
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Unified Volumes
mbaran7
  • Jul 7, 2014
  • 6 min

Unified Volumes

The studio recently did a design session to generate different ideas for a new project that will explore greater density in infill...
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hello26970
  • May 29, 2014
  • 13 min

Looking for the Axes of [(Non)-Centrality]

Among a few themes we’ve already mentioned that we are exploring here at the studio (adaptability, improvisation, kinetics) is the role...
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