Health and well-being is one of my greatest passions in life. After all, you only have one life, and as you use it, you can never get it back. I fully believe design has the ability, and even the responsibility, to serve the health and well-being of those who experience it. There are many small ways …
High-performance can “pay-off” in the long run
One of the challenges I often face as an architect is trying to help clients and building owners bridge the gap between what is best in the long run and what is the most cost-effective solution up front. I’d like to say I’ve been doing this long enough to see the effects of both approaches, …
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Pumpkin spice architecture
Pumpkin Spice: So “Nice” Today, believe it or not, is the first day of October – which means we are fully entrenched in autumnal culture. As I was putting fall-themed window stickies on the windows with my two-year old, I reflected on all the other wonderful things that come with fall: cooler air, football, changing …
Architects bring creativity to school safety
School safety is never far from our collective awareness, with an average of one school-shooting incident per week in the United States. Although it is well documented that travel to and from school is and will remain far more dangerous statistically, the school building itself needs to uphold the expectation that, once inside, students are …
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Sioux Falls Design Week begins
Design Week is a week-long opportunity for the city of Sioux Falls to celebrate and explore a wide variety of design disciplines, from architecture to landscape design to graphic design and more. The fifth annual Sioux Falls Design Week will be September 28th to October 5th. See event schedule here: www.siouxfallsdesignweek.com This year like others …
Robert Venturi 1925 – 2018
An architectural icon passed away this week. Robert Venturi passed away on September 18th at the ripe old age of 93. Along with several built masterpieces his influence on generations of architects was widespread through his written works with partner Denise Scott Brown, including Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Las Vegas. While …
2018 AIA South Dakota Design Awards announced
2018 HONOR AWARDS go to: TSP Inc. of Sioux Falls in the category of Architecture for its design of the DSU Beacom Institute of Technology in Madison Koch Hazard Architects of Sioux Falls in the category of Architecture for its design of the renovation of the South Dakota State Capitol Law Library in Pierre South …
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SD firms take home 6 AIA South Dakota design awards
South Dakota architecture firms took home six American Institute of Architecture (AIA) South Dakota Design Awards, three coveted Honor Awards and three Merit awards, on Friday, Sept. 14, during a ceremony that marked the culmination of AIA South Dakota’s annual conference. TSP Inc. of Sioux Falls captured an Honor Award for Architecture for its design …
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Why a mayoral panel discussion at the 2018 AIA Convention?
If you have looked at this year’s AIA South Dakota Convention schedule, you may have wondered, “Why is there a panel discussion featuring four South Dakota mayors?” Here’s why: The 2018 American Institute of Architects convention theme explores the profession’s most valuable asset — our Voice. As architects, we solve problems through design. We use …
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Citizen Architect
Architects do more than imagine spaces, buildings and forms. We continually strengthen the communication link between the mind and the hand that draws or clicks to form creations on napkin, paper or computer screen. In more simple terms, my job as an architect is to dream with my clients and then make those dreams a reality. Pretty impressive, for sure, but is that all an architect does? Does an architect …