3.30.21-Built-Brandon-Clifford

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  As an architect and researcher, I address contemporary challenges by developing approaches that are distinctly different from standard modes of practice in the building industry. The contemporary division between how things are conceived and how they are made produces blind spots that neither design nor construction can respond to in isolation—from recycling building materials, to supply chain transportation, and the energy of assembly, critical topics are outside the conventional scope of the architect. But there are examples in the historical past when master builders produced enduring architectures by merging designing and making in order to address broad concerns such as the material supply chain, technology, resources, and energy. My research leverages abandoned but relevant knowledge from our past to transform our contemporary architectural practices into viable and smarter alternatives for our future.

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