While it’s useful to rely on consistency and standardization when it comes to making buildings, it doesn’t typically inspire creativity....

The first time I heard architecture referred to as “product” I was thrown back. We were meeting with our client, the developer of Station...

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...

In light of my recent ‘Design Manifesto’ interview with Modelo, I’ve returned to the manifestos I studied as a college student, and I...

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...

When I’m told “this modernism thing isn’t going to last” I feel like I just emerged from a time machine in 1905. Modernism was not a...

Another of our recently built homes. Since we seem to have a series going on Harmon Street in Berkeley, we’ve come up with ‘Shifted...

We were recently mentioned in this San Francisco Business Times article about Madison Park Financial and John Protopapus:...

Last night we had the honor of receiving another Citation for Architecture in the AIA East Bay Chapter’s 2015 Design Awards for our W.16...

Decay and disintegration are simply factors of time.  Nothing lasts, change is constant.  The natural process of dematerialization is...

In the beginning of 2015, there was a great deal of talk about architecture in ‘crisis’, and I found it simultaneously fascinating and...

The April issue of Sunset Magazine is just out, and Baran Studio Architecture’s Bordertown project is one of two case studies. Here is a...

The foundation of adaptable characteristics are present in most people at a young age. For a child it is difficult to understand that it...

Our Manchester project in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland, California is now on the market. Originally an outdated single-story...

Style in architecture is useless as a design tool. It is a formula usually derived from a kit of parts which are applied (like make-up,...

Perhaps we should start with a definition of box: Box. bäks/ noun 1. a container with a flat base and sides, typically square or...

Parallels between architecture and psychology fascinate me. Not in the sense of environmental psychology, or the psychological effects of...

“It’s not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It’s just a waste of energy.” Jan Kaplicky (1937-2009) There has...

Adaptability is paramount in modern business according to the folks in this recent Fast Company issue. Several of the individuals...

Our Automattic / WordPress project was published on the website for the Italian magazine Domus today: http://www.domusweb.it/it/architett...