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
- 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
- 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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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
- 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 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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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 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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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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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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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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mbaran7
- Jul 17, 2014
- 1 min
“What’s My Motivation?”
In which Matt tours one of his construction sites only to find a portal into the architect’s very own heart of darkness…
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