Due to an insufficient number of paid participants, the Build Lightly Costa Rica Workshop has been POSTPONED until further notice. We were really looking forward to the construction possibilities in Costa Rica with Finca Antigua and their Sustainable Learning Center and Casa. We’ll keep you informed via the blog, and reschedule for winter break or [...]
Dirty fingernails, concrete-caked shoes, ripped shirts, dusty straw hats, and suntanned shoulders – all good signs of a RAW-xacan (RAW + Oaxacan, pronounced “Raw-hawken”) leaving the job site for the day. My name’s Miriam Gee and I’m an architect, aspiring design-builder, and teacher. I just got back from the week-long RAW Oaxaca workshop led by Paul Neseth of [...]
Archawai’i students have got a fever, and the only prescription is design-build! Professor Jason Selley (Co-founder of Build Lightly) taught the Urban Design-Build Studio in Fall 2012 through the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The students worked in teams from design, demolition, cleanup, painting, and fabricating with the CNC machine. This year’s project was a [...]
Build Lightly Studio is looking for our next client and project, could it be you? Stay tuned for details on our ARCH 415 design/build studio, Summer 2013, study abroad in Mexico!
Okay, okay… so maybe you’ve had enough already, but I just can’t get enough of the 2011 exhibit at the MOMA in NYC titled “Small Scale, Big Change.” This exhibit hosted Rural Studios work, handmade architecture in Burkina Faso and Bangladesh to urban scale projects in Venezuela! Take a look, I promise it’s worth every [...]
Howdy Build Lightly readers – Check out this ongoing collaboration of student-led social design/build projects between Portland State and UT Austin, called BaSiC Initiative. Let’s hear more about them from their website: The BaSiC Initiative is a collaboration of faculty and students from Portland State University and University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture. [...]
Hola Build Lightly crew! Here’s a link to an awesome Prefab housing company called Reclaimed Space specializing in reclaimed materials. Their story goes like this: The Reclaimed Space concept all began in 2007 as a special project for Austin-based DIRTCO Construction. Between jobs, DIRTCO founder, rancher and environmentalist Tracen Gardner began constructing a portable building using [...]
Aloha Builders… Just checking in with a couple of fantastic updates for the Build Lightly Studio for the end of 2011! We’ve been doing some work in Kalihi Valley and abroad… sorry for the lengthy post, but it’s well worth it. La Introducción de Build Lightly MX! Through the help of Joel Valdez Martinez and [...]
This FRIDAY 8/19 is guaranteed to be a Great Night! Jordan Cayanan and Deirdre Zoder will be presenting Tutu’s Hale in 20 SECONDS for 20 SLIDES If you haven’t yet made it out to a Petcha Kucha Night you should see for yourself what happens when the artists and designers of Honolulu let their imaginations [...]
Since the Ribbon Cutting ceremony for Tutu’s Hale on May 14, 2011, Joel Martinez Valdez, Luisa Fernanda Rodriguez, and Miriam Gee of Urban Works Inc. have been hard at work compiling images from Spring 2011 to complete the Build Lightly Studio Photojournal! After sorting and editing tens of thousands of images from the past year, [...]
