Discerning Words | Seeking the Who
Words, they have been with us our entire existence, minus those first few moments of life where we desperately longed to communicate with...
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...
Art that Shapes Space and Ideas | The Bad Idea
People often assume that in order to define space, architecture is required. As artists and architects, we used The Bad Idea to not only...
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...
The Makings of a Unique Southern Home: Inspirations in Design and Vernacular
What makes a home? Why do our homes look the way they look and function the way they function? Beyond the families that inhabit them and...
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...
Introducing the Spare-O: Turning Spare Wood into (Useful) Art
There come a couple of times each year here in the South when summers give up the oppressive heat and the winters thaw. Times when the...
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...
