hello26970
- Feb 12, 2016
- 1 min
Baran Studio in a Ford Commercial
A couple months ago we were asked to be the feature of a Ford commercial. We have the final product here! Check it out. #Architecture #community #style #residential #oakland #Theory #Design #Improvisation #Collaboration
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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 ridiculous. Fascinating because it was interesting that mainstream media was talking about it, but ridiculous because the idea that architecture is ‘dead’ or at least dying has been around for a long time, and yet we’re still here making architecture. The material I’m referring to has been circulating around the web through outlets like Forbes
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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, or cake icing) to any problem regardless of context or external content. On the other hand, process is methodological. It is something integral and less surface oriented both physically and intellectually. Often, particularly in residential design, a style consists of elements that are added to the front face of the exterior of a box (and som
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hello26970
- May 8, 2014
- 4 min
The Poetics of Windows
The last couple of Fridays at the studio we’ve been engaging in design sessions to further explore and manifest ‘adaptability’ as both a process and product of architectural thinking. To focus this, we looked explicitly at ‘the window’ and asked: what could new unique expressions of a window beyond its immediately perceivable utility as a perforation between ‘interior’ and ‘exterior’ look like? Could it serve a more dynamic interface to some other use, another role, another e
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