Architecture is not for selected few but EVERYONE.

Washington State Fair Fairview Club Balcony (Puyallup, Washington State, USA)

The Washington State Fair wanted to add a balcony to their Fairview Club building, which will serve as an outdoor extension to their event space.

The opportunity arises to use the balcony as an entrance identity to the building and provide a view of the fair to the attendees. The simple balcony program shape is clipped by the existing tree, with a roof shaped to create a forced perspective that invites people in.

Washington State Fair Fairview Club Balcony (Puyallup, Washington State, USA)

Sumner Public Library (Sumner, Washington State, USA)

Siebert Remodel (Tacoma, Washington State, USA)

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

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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.