

hello26970
May 27, 20171 min read
MacArthur Annex on 7×7
The MacArthur Annex is in the news again, this time in 7×7. You can check it out here
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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
Apr 19, 20171 min read
Baran Studio Architecture in the SF Chronicle Style Section
The MacArthur Annex Shipping Container ‘Creative Community’ was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle Style Section this past Sunday....
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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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hello26970
Mar 22, 20171 min read
Matt Baran at USC Architecture Generation Next Pecha Kucha
I gave a very short presentation at USC a few weeks ago. For those of you that are not familiar with the Pecha Kucha format, it is...
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hello26970
Mar 1, 20171 min read
Baran Studio Architecture in the San Francisco Chronicle
John King, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Architecture Critic, has written an article on the development happening in and around the...
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hello26970
Feb 11, 20171 min read
Baran Studio Architecture in San Francisco Magazine
Our MacArthur Annex shipping container project was recently featured in San Francisco Magazine. It’s an interesting piece that is as...
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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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hello26970
Jan 14, 20171 min read
Supercool
Our 60th Street house is in the news today. Check out the write up on SF Gate here.
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hello26970
Dec 28, 20161 min read
Baran Studio Architecture Designs in the Wall Street Journal
Our designs for Station House and Westhaus 10 were recently featured in the Wall Street Journal. The story is about Oakland and the...
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hello26970
Dec 5, 20161 min read
Baran Studio Architecture Google Project Map
Some time ago, we created a map of our projects throughout California, and I thought to finally post it. The pins are by project type and...
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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
Oct 26, 20161 min read
Station House Construction Update
The office took a tour of the Station House yesterday, and it’s very exciting to see a project of this scale coming together. Models of...
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hello26970
Oct 21, 20161 min read
Johansson Projects Gallery: Cody Hoyt
As lovers of both art and architecture, we are proud to announce that a Brooklyn-based ceramicist and close-friend of Baran Studio, Cody...
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hello26970
Oct 17, 20161 min read
Inside the Office
WP Photo Sphere (img_0125-3-copy) A photosphere of the office interior. Lately we’ve been thinking about how technology can assist in...
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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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hello26970
Apr 22, 20161 min read
Steel Building
We have been assisting Import Tile in Berkeley with replacing a roof to one of their warehouses damaged by fire. It was quite a thrill to...
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