While it’s useful to rely on consistency and standardization when it comes to making buildings, it doesn’t typically inspire creativity....

In defense, in celebration, of replication. Why does architecture, both in current design trends and the big picture urban environment,...

The process of making is not typically linear. Direction can be reversed and lateral moves made as various directions fail to prove...

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...

In light of my recent ‘Design Manifesto’ interview with Modelo, I’ve returned to the manifestos I studied as a college student, and I...

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...

Decay and disintegration are simply factors of time.  Nothing lasts, change is constant.  The natural process of dematerialization is...

In the beginning of 2015, there was a great deal of talk about architecture in ‘crisis’, and I found it simultaneously fascinating and...

The foundation of adaptable characteristics are present in most people at a young age. For a child it is difficult to understand that it...

Cyborgs might be the stuff of science fiction horror films, but I for one am looking forward to continued opportunities to augment myself...

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,...

Perhaps we should start with a definition of box: Box. bäks/ noun 1. a container with a flat base and sides, typically square or...

Conflict and its relationship to architecture may involve something as catastrophic as a border skirmish, or as mundane as a disagreement...

Parallels between architecture and psychology fascinate me. Not in the sense of environmental psychology, or the psychological effects of...

“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...

Objectivism, postmodernism, adaptability, flexibility, maybe mediocrity and compromise. I’ve done it again, wasted a perfectly good...

Adaptability is paramount in modern business according to the folks in this recent Fast Company issue. Several of the individuals...

These admittedly have no rhyme nor reason for being placed together here, outside the fact that they’re around Oakland, and they all...

The view from our latest West Oakland project. Better than the Golden Gate Bridge if you ask me. I love it!

In which Matt tours one of his construction sites only to find a portal into the architect’s very own heart of darkness…