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Construction methods today tend to preference low cost and quick implementation, rather than defining value by the lifespan of a project. Low cost and limited time are the reasons why some construction methods, such as dry stack limestone, have taken a back seat to newer construction methods. Sometimes these newer methods are not the answer architects are looking for to solve their problems, as they encounter issues of addressing climate, traditional architecture of the area, and implementation. Our Design+Make studio faced this dilemma for our project in the Flint Hills; to build a natural dry stack stone retaining wall or to pour a concrete retaining wall with an attached stone veneer....(more)

2/19/2016

A Local Construction Method for the Flint Hills// AJ Henry

A Local Construction...

Design in the Minds of...

Landscape of Change

The Customer is (Not)...

Architecture Courts the...

A Future Observing the Past

Project in the Prairie

The New Lineup

Computer Numerical...

Theory & Feasibility

Designing Never Stops

Telling Your Story

Social Media

Herding Cats: A Lesso...

What is a Designer's...

Digital Design_Hand D...

Understanding Materi...

All Night? All Right?

Construction Safety

Communicating in the...

A Future for Seaton Hall

Biophilic Design

2 Pavilions: Diverging...

The Value of Shop Dra...

Stretching the Mold

Sacred Space

What we can Learn...

Women in the "Making"

Failing Fast & Failing...

The Power of Mock...

The Next Chapter

Value Competiton

Design Intentions

Budgeting & Architec...

Building Relationships

Art with Plumbing

Having Your Own Pla...

Communicate Early...

The 7 Phases of Fab...

SDOB

Art Intertwined with th...

Can You Please Every...

Building with Kultur

Studio Dynamic

Creative Power_Brain...

The Three Schedules...

Building New on Indig...

Women in Charge

A Sunday Afternoon in...

Designing in the Mod...

Thriving on Collaborati...

Looking at the Whole...

Studio Desk 101

Meet the Team

Making Competence

FAT: Flexible, Adapt...

Architect's Self Evalu...

Benefits of Design B...

The Truth in the Deta...

Studio Expansion: W...

design+make apprec...

Optimistic Continge...

Wood 101

Client Conversation:...

Great Expectations

The Future of Dry Fit...

Communication Brea...

Design Matters

Prototyping as a Tool

Expressive Diagraming

Blood, Sweat, and Provi...

design+make+sustain

A Departure From Fine ...

Facility Optimization as...

The Need for Quality C...

design+makeDISCUSSION

Macro / Micro

Taking a Public Interest

Conditional Making

Efficiency

Holding it Together

Keys to Graphic Commu...

This Program Has Been...

Expanded Partnerships...

Preserving Graduate Le...

Careful Consideration o...

Making the Switch

Pushing Back on the Be...

Roof_Ground_Winner

Girl Scout Camp Assesm...

The Customer is (Not) Always Right // Jake Rose

2/10/2016

For as long as they’ve been designing buildings, architects have had to balance their vision for design with the wants and needs of their clients. Some clients may be harder to please than others, but ultimately, the support of a project’s financier is essential if it is to be built. Even the work of the greatest architects could not have come into existence through the efforts of the architect alone. Often, the best designed buildings are...(more)

Our site at the Camp Wood YMCA lies at the intersection of purely social settings and incredible environmental conditions. These two factors, from the start, have heavily influenced our design for the project. A thorough site analysis of the climate, ecology, geology, history, senses, seasons, and even local art, has given our team a better perspective of what it means to design, then build, a pavilion at Camp Wood. The goal of the Preston Outdoor Education Station is to create an aesthetic experience of the prairie like no other...(more)

Landscape of Change // Phil Macaluso

2/12/2016

As students, we have come to know the design process as something that will always reside within the realm of imagination. Most projects we have been given regardless of scale and scope are nothing more than a learning tool to generate a creative design solution to a unique site without anything truly tangible coming from it. This romantic idea of designing without the input of other architects, clients and the contractors is something most designers would call the "ideal world" of design, but in the reality of our profession this "ideal world" does not exist...(more)

Design in the Minds of Many // Alex Martinez

2/17/2016

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