Architecture is not for selected few but EVERYONE.

Love Inc. (Somewhere in Western Washington State, USA)

This is one of our pro-bono project to help a non-profit organization started their campaign for a new building.

It is a simple project for their office space as well as a large storage area in the back where trucks can load and unload the goods. To save construction cost, it is made out of typical metal building system with natural light to save energy. The hope of simple design is also to allow the organization to be able to act as general contractor to save construction cost even further. The overhang over the administrative area is design to be a continuation from the main roof form creating an integral plane that acts as an entrance canopy.

Sumner Public Library (Sumner, Washington State, USA)

Siebert Remodel (Tacoma, Washington State, USA)

Highline College Campus Wayfinding Concept Study (Des Moines, Washington State, USA)

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Mahlum, in partnership with Architecture for Everyone, is selected to design New Middle School for Edmonds School District.

Architecture for Everyone is part of BCRA Design and Korsmo Construction Design-Build team to deliver the Lowell Elementary School replacement for Tacoma Public Schools.

Architecture for Everyone and Johnston Architects have been designing the Sumner Public Library for the Pierce County Library System. The project is to start construction in Spring 2025.

Architecture for Everyone is involved in a couple of feasibility studies for The Washington State Fair in Puyallup.

Thoughts

Architecture is not for selected few but EVERYONE. The upper 1% can buy with their wealth, the bottom 5% are taken care of by the government. The challenge for each architect is to also serve the middle from the bottom 5% to the upper 1%. That is social justice in architecture.

If Disneyland is to Apple Macintosh in its integrated design, Las Vegas is to IBM PC in its open-source method. But both employ Robert Venturi’s “ugly and ordinary” design approach.

Creativity is to solve design problems, not to creatively force the realization of a heroic design ideal.

We expect our buildings to be flexible and adaptable but fail to recognize that we, humans, are the most adaptable creature. Architecture is heavy and static and, therefore, shall not be expected to be able to be changed too much without significant intervention.

Between three east Asian traditional architecture of China, Korea, and Japan, the most ornate and decorative is Chinese, followed by Korea and Japan being the least. That is why Japanese architecture can accept and adopt the idea of modernism well, especially minimalism.