Architourism: Japan
About this time two years ago, my wife and I were sitting in a concert hall in Kansas City listening to author and humorist David Sedaris read excerpts from his latest book. As he read snippets from...
View ArticleHow are educators and architects alike?
Here’s a short video we recently made about our love of education design, with case studies of current and recent education outreach projects: – A pro-bono engagement effort between our San Francisco...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Give a Brutalist Building a Hug?
We wanted to share some images of our recently-completed Lawrence Public Library in Lawrence, Kansas. The renovation and expansion has dramatically revitalized a 1970s Brutalist concrete building by...
View ArticleProfessor … Get a Room!
The Faculty Office is a hot subject of debate across campuses today as colleges and universities fight to keep costs down and increase value to students. While the costs to build large, private offices...
View ArticleCareer Day at Frontier School of Innovation
The cafeteria at Frontier School of Innovation began to fill with the nervous chatter of 8th, 9th, and 10th graders at 9 AM on the first Friday of March. As 160 students quickly shuffled in, Patrick...
View ArticleYouth Are Often the Real Teachers
We all too often think of adults as the educators and youth as the learners – a paradigm of our top-down societal structure. This weekend was a great example of where the adult “teachers” learned as...
View ArticleSTEAM Studio Hosts KC Coalition for Homeless Youth Provider Services
Gould Evans and the STEAM Studio hosted the Coalition of Homeless Youth Provider Services (CHYPS), a Kansas City organization consisting of 15 area agencies that provide services to homeless youth...
View ArticleThe Secret Lives of Faculty
What is it about faculty offices that stirs up so much controversy? Go to most campuses, strike up a conversation with facilities personnel, and it quickly becomes a loaded topic. We wanted to dig...
View ArticleGreater Than the Sum of its Parts
Nestled in the space between the Kansas and Missouri River, the West Bottoms industrial area offers something unique to Kansas City that people gravitate towards. Look around on almost any weekend and...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of the HALO Foundation
It’s 9:00am on a beautiful Saturday morning at STEAM Studio. The van pulling into the parking lot has been en route picking up homeless youth at shelters around Kansas City’s urban core for the past...
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