Now viewing articles by Barry Svigals.
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Flying
July 31st, 2019
The question we can’t confront too early or return to too often is: how can we make the world a better place? The question is, in fact, more personal: how can I make the world a better place? Our office was founded on that ideal held by all of us collectively and asked of each of us individually.E...
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The distinction between knowledge and understanding
June 28th, 2018
In the future and indeed right now, there is only learning. It is said that teachers are a dime a dozen but students are hard to come by. In the cultu ...
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Marrying Making with Meaning
June 25th, 2018
In all of our community process work, we try to create another context, an experience of something other than the idea of who we are and begin to have ...
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Re-Imagining Sustainability
June 23rd, 2018
If we have saved the planet, will we have saved ourselves? Necessity is the mother of invention. So, once we have saved the planet (if we can?) ...
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Sculpture at John S. Martinez School
June 20th, 2018
This project brought sculptural imagery to the formal expression of the facades themselves. The sail-like shapes of the classrooms recall the boats ...
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Sculpture at Albertus Magnus College
June 19th, 2018
The sculpture aims to bring alive the Dominican tradition and, in particular, the namesake of the college, Albert the Great. His statue is a single caryatid ...
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Sculpture at L.W. Beecher School
June 18th, 2018
Two primary sculptural elements express the spirit of this urban elementary school. At the entrance is a sixteen foot high caryatid created from laser ...
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Sculpture at Norwalk Community College, Schwab Center for Information Technology
June 17th, 2018
A Conversation on Information Technology Over 5000 Years: A Dialogue Across Time and Space. This work provides an open “story” which ...
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Sculpture & Mural for Jonathan E. Reed School
June 16th, 2018
The theme of time, integrated into the architecture, enlivens the curriculum and reminds the community of their local heritage. At the highest point ...
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Boundless Resources
June 9th, 2018
Opening ourselves beyond our horizons can yield exponential returns.
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Architecture and Motion
June 7th, 2018
Why can’t we do architecture and involve our physical sense of who we are?
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