

hello26970
Dec 4, 20171 min read
Haskell Street in the New York Times
. On Sunday, the New York Times Business Section ran a story on the front page titled Getting to Yes on NIMBY Street. It’s about...
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mbaran7
May 15, 20173 min read
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, 20174 min read
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, 20171 min read
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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mbaran7
Nov 17, 20163 min read
ULI Panel: Going Out on Your Own
I was honored to participate in the San Francisco ULI panel on starting your own business last week. It was an interesting to spend an...
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hello26970
Sep 21, 20164 min read
Copy Right
In defense, in celebration, of replication. Why does architecture, both in current design trends and the big picture urban environment,...
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mbaran7
Sep 19, 20163 min read
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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mbaran7
Jul 5, 20164 min read
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, 20162 min read
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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mbaran7
Dec 31, 20154 min read
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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mbaran7
May 4, 20151 min read
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
Feb 21, 20154 min read
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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mbaran7
Jan 25, 20154 min read
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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mbaran7
Oct 29, 20141 min read
Random Oakland Variations
These admittedly have no rhyme nor reason for being placed together here, outside the fact that they’re around Oakland, and they all...
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hello26970
Oct 21, 20141 min read
Billboard
Just an interesting billboard attached to an interesting future project:
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mbaran7
Oct 16, 20141 min read
West Oakland View
The view from our latest West Oakland project. Better than the Golden Gate Bridge if you ask me. I love it!
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