The purse is small but not abstract enough to be made out of one homogenous material - like our models. Cult Gaia and Susan Alexandra make purses that each have their own construction systems, but a wearable accessory like the purse is not restricted to the world of fashion : We can reconsider it in our own terms and fabrication methods as architecture students. And unlike, say, a chair, if it is designed a certain way, we can make it ourselves without jumping into a whole new realm of unfamiliar craft.

A conversation on thoughtful engagement

5:36 minutes

“No glove is immune to loss… After a while, they all seem to blend together. What truly distinguishes these lonely gloves from each other is where they ultimately end up.”

Is sharing a recipe, sharing a food space?

The boundary can be crossed with or without the door. Doors distance, deceive, provoke, manipulate, and reveal.

Results from an exercise in visualizing the embedded meanings of salad, featuring 5 participants.

A conversation on working through honesty

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Glossier’s unique immersive retail spaces inherently invite and include collaborators that range from floral artists to trained sculptors. Senior Experiential Designer, Kendall Latham shares a bit of his own experience in creating these spaces with out-of-house expertise we aren’t typically familiar with.

What about the teal/turquoise/cyan/bluish green in between?

(2/3) stories of alternative urban planning by women from self-organized urban poor communities in Zimbabwe

When I say “Salad,” do we imagine the same thing?

“Anywhere I went, there was always a forgotten glove laying there, limp. Lifeless. Lonely.”

A conversation on working easy

4:24 minutes

Learning from union metalworkers to automate mirror polishing in Kansas City.

Due to the disastrous port explosion that claimed the lives of over 200 innocent souls, this week we write in tribute to their memories, to our city, Beirut.

The house is the most intimate shelter of a soul, as intimate as a piece of clothing.

For my family, chai is the elixir of life. It is had at least twice a day and offered to all who enter our home. And for most of my life, I have consumed it within the walls of my home in Tennessee and Bombay, knowing it to be a lasting testament of my Gujarati heritage.

A break from recipes to ask “Where does a food space begin?” mine is rooted in maps.

On manifestos

After the war, Anna and Larry (Friedmann) Flynn settled in Vancouver. They married and purchased a rainbow house: a stuccoed bungalow on W 64th Street.