hello26970
- Dec 4, 2017
- 1 min
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, 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
- 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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mbaran7
- Nov 17, 2016
- 3 min
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, 2016
- 4 min
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, 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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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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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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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
- 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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mbaran7
- Jan 25, 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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mbaran7
- Oct 29, 2014
- 1 min
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, 2014
- 1 min
Billboard
Just an interesting billboard attached to an interesting future project:
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mbaran7
- Oct 16, 2014
- 1 min
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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