The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about several intriguing situations for people worldwide. During a recent conversation with a contractor, we were informed that the cost of lumber has skyrocketed by 300% since January, which is less than six months ago. As a result, construction projects that typically utilize wood are surpassing their initial cost estimates …
619 Million Dollars
58,936, the number of people counted as homeless in 2019 according to the LA Times. 619 million dollars was spent on homelessness in Los Angeles County in 2019, this is the equivalent of having spent nearly $12k on every homeless person. Yet not only has there been zero improvement but there appears to have been …
FISH STAPLER BUILDING – SKETCH TO PHOTSHOP RENDERING
SuperEGO – A Designers Best Enemy
Within the realm of self interest, there hasn't been an idea more oppressive to architects, yet more beneficial to the field, than the SuperEgo. Yet it is hard, if not impossible, to separate the most famous of architects from the pursuit of perfection; to attempt to satisfy the ego not from the confirmation of colleagues, …
A Sense of Place
What gives a location a sense of place? Is it the coordinates at which the place is located? Is it the views one can witness in this particular location? Is it the history/memories created on location? Does it need to be unique? Does it need to be something grander? Is it due to the structure currently …
Inside Out House
The typical strategy for designing a home in Los Angeles starts by asking the following questions: what is the width and length of the lot, what types of homes sit in the neighborhood, what are the setbacks, where is the road, how many bedrooms and bathrooms do you wish to incorporate into the property. What …
Total Isolation – The ideal building for someone who knows it will never be seen
I often ponder how much of what we do as architects is a direct result of liberated creativity vs attempted statements or rather a dialogue comparative to either the environment the structure we are planning to erect is inhabiting or the global conversation of buildings. Let's take a second to imagine a world where you …
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The Singapore Experience – Sterile Environmental Architecture at its finest
Of all of cultures scattered throughout South East Asia, Singapore was undoubtedly the cleanest of them all. The clean culture translated directly into many prominent environmental and architectural features. They adopted many Korean and Japanese features as their own. Crisp clean lines, perfectly intercepted joints, and smooth material transitions. This is undoubtedly the result of …
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Designing the Future Home Office
You are progressing through an hour and a half long zoom meeting trying to coordinate mechanical ducts and wide flange beams while the aroma of chicken and spinach roams the air as lunch fast approaches. Your father in law is blasting reruns of WWE in the living room because of course he will. The hours …
Designing for Wellness – A Post Covid-19 World
Today is April 29th 2020, and many of us have been cooped up at home for the last month and a half waiting for this nightmare of a pandemic to come to an end. Social distancing, hand washing, and wiping down everything you come into contact with has become the new norm. While there are …
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