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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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
- 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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hello26970
- Apr 10, 2016
- 1 min
Robot 5
Do you remember the scene in the movie Big when they create a toy that transforms from a building into a robot, and Tom Hanks proclaims...
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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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hello26970
- Nov 7, 2015
- 1 min
New Completed Projects: Shifted House
Another of our recently built homes. Since we seem to have a series going on Harmon Street in Berkeley, we’ve come up with ‘Shifted...
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hello26970
- Oct 28, 2015
- 1 min
Baran Studio Architecture in the SF Business Times
We were recently mentioned in this San Francisco Business Times article about Madison Park Financial and John Protopapus:...
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hello26970
- Oct 2, 2015
- 1 min
Baran Studio Wins Citation for Architecture
Last night we had the honor of receiving another Citation for Architecture in the AIA East Bay Chapter’s 2015 Design Awards for our W.16...
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mbaran7
- May 4, 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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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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hello26970
- Mar 20, 2015
- 1 min
Sunset Magazine: New Designs for City Living
The April issue of Sunset Magazine is just out, and Baran Studio Architecture’s Bordertown project is one of two case studies. Here is a...
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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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hello26970
- Feb 17, 2015
- 1 min
Manchester
Our Manchester project in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland, California is now on the market. Originally an outdated single-story...
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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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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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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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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 3, 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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hello26970
- Aug 9, 2014
- 1 min
Baran Studio Architecture in Italiano
Our Automattic / WordPress project was published on the website for the Italian magazine Domus today: http://www.domusweb.it/it/architett...
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