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Image Credit: Bill Birdsell | Architectural Credit: Timber Framers Guild

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2020/MAY/12

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Parham K

A walk during the pandemic

My design work has slowed but fortunately not stopped. I’ve adapted to zoom and other tools but to keep my sanity and stay active I walk. It is one of the few things that is still safe to do and...

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#shiftingparadigms

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2020/APR/30

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OAA

3D printing PPE

I bought my first 3D printer in 2013. At the time, I wanted to use it to produce 3D models for my small practice. Since then, I’ve purchased three more printers and printed thousands of items, (mostly...

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#shiftingparadigms

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2020/APR/23

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Tamara King

Bunny House Plans

When the COVID-19 quarantine first started, one of the biggest challenges my wife and I faced was to find ways to keep our daughters busy (10 and 13 years old). We felt this could be a good...

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#shiftingparadigms

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2020/APR/15

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Parham K

Responding to the COVID crisis

The desire to answer the call for crowd-sourced manufacture of PPE was unanimous throughout the office With the COVID-19 pandemic touching every corner of peoples’ lives, bringing radical...

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#ppe

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#3dprinting

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2020/APR/09

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Parham K

Camp Covid

There is no question that the COVID-19 crisis has affected vast sectors of the economy and the public in adverse ways, but in Architecture, as in economics, there are models of more resilient...

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architecture as camping

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tiny homes

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