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Sumner Public Library (Sumner, Washington State, USA)

Architecture for Everyone teamed up with Johnston Architect to design the new Sumner Library for the Pierce County Library System. The project is located east of downtown Sumner where the density begins to taper off into a suburban residential area. The library is designed according to the City of Sumner design guidelines to continue the […]

Pentagon Memorial (Washington, DC, USA, Competition)

The Pentagon Memorial is designed to describe the 9/11 tragedy as the destruction of physical characteristics of built environment and human bodies but  not human spirit.  Courage, bravery, and love prevail. The glass enclosure symbolizes the human spirit.  The trapezoid shape is exactly 1/3 of the destroyed portion of the Pentagon.  The trajectory of American […]

Martin Luther King Junior Memorial (Washington, DC, USA, Competition)

MLK’s writings and speeches are the most important artifacts we inherited from him.  His words are so profound and powerful. The challenge for the monument design is how to create a space where people can read MLK’s words and being induced to act and to realize his dream. The design proposes four layers of glass […]

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Architecture for Everyone is part of McGranahanPBK/Cornerstone team selected to design and build the Whittier Elementary School for the Tacoma Public Schools.

Mahlum, in partnership with  Architecture for Everyone, is selected to design the New Middle School for the Edmonds School District. SpeeWest is the General Contractor/Construction Manager selected for the project.

Architecture for Everyone is part of BCRA Design and Korsmo Construction Design-Build team to deliver the Lowell Elementary School replacement for the Tacoma Public Schools. The groundbreaking ceremony was March 5, 2025.

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 Fall 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.

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