. On Sunday, the New York Times Business Section ran a story on the front page titled Getting to Yes on NIMBY Street. It’s about...

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...

A Mike Wallace interview is sampled in a Flight Facilities track I happen to be listening to this morning, and I decided to look It up...

I was honored to participate in the San Francisco ULI panel on starting your own business last week. It was an interesting to spend an...

In defense, in celebration, of replication. Why does architecture, both in current design trends and the big picture urban environment,...

The process of making is not typically linear. Direction can be reversed and lateral moves made as various directions fail to prove...

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...

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...

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

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

Cyborgs might be the stuff of science fiction horror films, but I for one am looking forward to continued opportunities to augment myself...

These admittedly have no rhyme nor reason for being placed together here, outside the fact that they’re around Oakland, and they all...

Just an interesting billboard attached to an interesting future project:

The view from our latest West Oakland project. Better than the Golden Gate Bridge if you ask me. I love it!