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
- Apr 19, 2017
- 1 min
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, 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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hello26970
- Mar 22, 2017
- 1 min
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, 2017
- 1 min
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, 2017
- 1 min
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, 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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hello26970
- Jan 14, 2017
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 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
- Oct 26, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 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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hello26970
- Apr 22, 2016
- 1 min
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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hello26970
- Apr 10, 2016
- 1 min
Robot 5
Do you remember the scene in the movie Big when they create a toy that transforms from a building into a robot, and Tom Hanks proclaims...
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