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2017Mod Talk: Architecture for Everyone with Ko Wibowo - View Article
2017AIA Seattle + Design in Public Open to All: Designing for the full range of human experience (Stevens Addition) January 12th to February 18th 2017 at Center for Architecture & Design, Seattle
2015Arcade Magazine 33.1 Issue: "What's Next for Tacoma?"
2015Seattle Magazine October 2015: Into the Woods - View Article
2014DWELL Magazine July/August 2014: A Sense of Place/Designing a Home to Accommodate Alzheimer's - View Article
2012TV Tacoma Interview for Conversation RE: Tacoma Lecture Series
2011DWELL Special Issue: Best Homes in America (Magic Mountain)
2009D la repubblica delle Donne No. 641: Idea Vulcanica
2009DWELL Special Issue: Make It Yours
2008DWELL Magazine October 2008: Magic Mountain - View Article
2008The Stranger December 16, 2008: Where We Live Now - View Article
2007Tacoma Daily Index January 09, 2007: Safe Passage: Two Urban Design Enthusiasts Set Out to Remap Downtown’s Walkway
2000Arcade Magazine Summer 2000: Plan Section Sentence Competition: Special Notice for Section

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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.

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