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Design + Make has embarked on a journey outside of the typical architecture student’s comfort zone. This journey involves limestone and a chisel, cedar and a forge, steel and a welder. Many architectural theorists have discussed the opportunities and benefits of a design-build concept; the involvement of the builder with the designer throughout the entire process. Christopher Alexander in particular is an advocate of this, and about bringing life and a personal touch into the built world through the re-integration of context from previous “living” parts and wholeness. His extreme view on how to build a living city are written in a way that discouts any other view, which could be taken harshly by some...(more)
3/30/2016
Elevating architecture through design excellence. Architectural design excellence defined by the General Services Administration, an independent agency of the US government that helps manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies, is a “holistic environment that adds contemporary form and meaning to America’s rich legacy of public Architecture.” It is an advocacy for quality and value in the work. Buildings begin to take on a sense of delight and a pride of place when an architect and client pursue a level of quality throughout the design process. In architecture, design excellence is required to elevate the development of projects...(more)
3/23/2016
3/11/2016
How does one effectively teach the intricate details of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem to young students of elementary and middle school age? Our studio was tasked with creating a shade structure that could house a gathering space for educational talks and a permanent display of informational material. This material covers information on the grasses, insects, the prairie burns effects on the region, and the geological makeup of the earth. However upon study we determined that the initial scope of our proposed design would not create the desired effect of a lasting impression...(more)
Landscape architect Laurie Olin has written, “It is hard to think of any field that has accomplished so much for society with so few people and with so little understanding of its scope or ambitions.” The issue that landscape architecture faces is that it has long been constrained by an attachment to the picturesque. It has failed to attain the public profile of architecture or the fine arts. John Beardsley, author of A Word for Landscape Architecture, explains that this is because “built works of landscape architecture are not as readily identified and evaluated as paintings, sculptures, or buildings.” What the common man may interpret as a simple green space is in fact a complex ecosystem “bridging science and art, mediating between nature and culture.”...(more)
3/25/2016
