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A Peek at the Real World

Good Enough?

Affordable Architecture

Effective Self-Organization...

Architecture and First...

Environmental Awareness

The Challenge of Women...

Blind Design

Opening Collaboration...

An Architecture Student's...

The Hand-Built...

Lanscape Architecture...

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Architects Involvement...

Crafting Innovation

Environmental Conser...

Building with Fire...

A Local Construction...

Design in the Minds of...

Landscape of Change

The Customer is (Not)...

Architecture Courts the...

A Future Observing...

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...

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design+makeDISCUSSION

Macro / Micro

Taking a Public Interest

Conditional Making

Efficiency

Holding it Together

Keys to Graphic Commu...

This Program Has Been...

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Preserving Graduate Le...

Careful Consideration o...

Making the Switch

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4/22/2016

Leaderless groups exist within many realms of society and are participated in largely throughout our college careers. Activist groups, design charrettes/competitions, group projects, and the Design+Make Studio are groups where people of equal enthusiasm gather to accomplish one mission. We have been existing in a non-hierarchical organization where each colleague started the semester with similar interest in the project and identical levels of control. When no formal organizational structure is put in place we are left to self-organize and how effectively we do that can determine the group's’ success. This process of people obtaining leadership positions and their effect on the group has been a consequential aspect to the fluidity of the design and construction process for the Design+Make Studio...(more)

Effective Self-Organization through an
Ever-changing Process // Briana Reece
Architecture and First Impressions: How is this
relevant to architecture? // Kelsey Middelkamp

4/20/2016

The architect Peter Zumthor believes architecture is similar to a first impression.(2) What does this mean and what evidence supports Zumthor’s feeling? An impression is “the first and immediate effect of an experience or perception upon the mind,” and also, “an image in the mind caused by something external.” (2) More specifically, a first impression, being a psychological concept, is a holistic phenomenon in which a composite of signals emitted by a new stimulus is imagined almost immediately.(3)...(more)

One of the things we take for granted is a place that’s called home. It serves a very important human need as it keeps us protected from the elements, but what happens to this basic need as it becomes an equation in a capitalism economy? In this time and day, we have a problem where the cost of living is increasing immensely, which may surpass inflation. Being a Californian I understand very well that rent is a significant portion of your income, often times more than half of your income. Marcus & Millichap predicted in 2015 that rent in Los Angeles will climb 4.8 percent overall, "more than doubling the rate of inflation" (Curbed)... (more)

2/13/2017

Affordable Architecture // Doan Pham

To fully understand architectural education, it’s important to know where we think it falls short. These shortfalls are why all 13 of us made the conscious decision to take the Design+Make studio as our capstone studio at Kansas State University to finish off our five years of study.

 

Up to this point, we’ve all taken 7 different studios from 7 different professors and are currently on our 8th of both. On top of that, we’ve all either studied abroad and taken an additional studio or taken a semester away from campus for an internship. In those previous studios, we learned that architecture school isn’t really intended to be a full preparation for the field – think of it as an IKEA assembly manual. ... (more)

2/15/2017

Good Enough? // Brock Traffas