Creating Home | An Overview of Our Residential Design Process
Most people, at some point in their lives, think about and consider building a home. There is something romantic, something mysterious,...
Music Improvisation and the Creative Process | A Study of Music and Architecture
Brian Roberson architect/ musician speaks on the correlations and similarities between music improvisation and the creative process of...
How Music Is Like Architecture | Birmingham Architects
Music, in many ways, is like architecture: both are journeys and experiences. Both can start out in an unfamiliar place, only to end up...
Exploring Order and Chaos in Design and the Creative Process
“The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.” Thomas Kuhn The creative process requires a certain amount of introspection, and...
Exploring the Wilds of Memory: Our Clubhouse | Birmingham Architects Blog
Think back to your childhood, exploring the woods for the first time. The sights, the sounds, the excitement of being in the wilderness –...
The ADDR3SS | A Community for the Chronically Homeless
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the...
Making Art: Exploring the Tools We Use as Architects and Designers
When we think of tools, a few things probably come to mind. We think of a carpenter and his hammer or a surgeon and his scalpel. We think...
Introducing Red Mountain Bikes | Birmingham Architects Blog
Have you heard of a business called Red Mountain Bikes? If not, it’s okay – it’s not a real business. One day, we noticed a large group...
The bDot Bus Stop | Birmingham Architects Blog
What is a bus stop? Besides the obvious, of course (a place for people to wait for the bus). As Birmingham architects, we see public...
How a Law Firm’s Office Bridges the Gap between Traditional and Modern in the South
In architecture, there is a divide of sorts between two styles: the pull of the traditional – a retelling of a storied past, based on...
