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BUILD, 2020
Press Release excerpt from the United Kingdom:
"BUILD Magazine has announced winners of the 2020 Architecture Awards. Now in its fifth year, BUILD’s Architecture Awards program continues to be an annual cornerstone, highlighting the extraordinary work and expertise of Architects around the world."
THE FOUR CAUSES EXPLAINING THE MAKING OF A TOOL
SELF PUBLISHED, November, 2018
Author: Paul Benavente
Artist: Madison Brake
This article explains the four underlying principles that define our artificial environment. To begin this journey, let us enter the workshop of a woodworking craftsman and consider the working of these principles in his making of the most elemental object of the constructed world: the tool; specifically a specialized type of hammer known as the Joiner's Mallet.
CRAFTSMAN SUMMER HOME ON GALVESTON BAY
OLD HOUSE JOURNAL, Nov - Dec, 2018
Featured in the "Reader's Favorite" edition; this was an extensive renovation of a 1911 historic home on Galveston Bay which included a garage, apartment, and porch addition undertaken by Stella Maris Architecture.
THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF ALL THINGS MADE
SELF PUBLISHED, October, 2018
Author: Paul Benavente
Artist: Madison Brake
An article illuminating the most basic principles of the built environment by first identifying these principles in the natural world in order to animate the understanding of the dictum "art imitates nature."
THE "FOUR CAUSES" AND PALLADIO'S VILLA EMO
PALLADIANA, Spring Issue, 2020
Author: Paul Benavente
Artist: Madison Brake
The firm is honored to be published in this distinguished journal. The article is devoted to the understanding of the fundamental principles of architecture making reference to the Villa Emo by Andrea Palladio as a means of demonstration.