Architecture and Buildings
Architecture and Buildings are complimentary but distinct ideas. Architecture is the ideology of how rooms are organized, the shape of a roof, and the experience of gathering around a window. Building is the manifestation of those ambitions in forms of concrete, stacks of bricks, assemblies of wood and gypsum, and the building systems we expect to make buildings perform. A good project should be thoughtfully both.
BAAB brings together a vision of what architecture can do with the understanding of how buildings come together. Successful architecture is more than a strong idea, or a bold material. It is also the imperative to be functional, efficient, buildable, and durable. With a wealth of experience designing through drawings, models, and images, but also walking the construction site and problem-solving with contractors, BAAB makes projects knowable.
Ted Baab, AIA
Ted brings many years of experience leading the design of a diverse array of projects, from work spaces, galleries, and art studios, to private residences, and public art installations. He has worked with private cultural institutions, city governments, public libraries, and artists.
He has guided projects through construction on many complex project sites, including ground-up construction in the city, fast-paced interior fit outs, complex alterations, and specialty fabrication.
He believes in buildings as sites of conversation, for those who live, work, learn, and play. The design of art and work spaces leverage the arts as a catalyst to bring communities together, foster exchange, and offer new experiences.
He is interested in the ways everyday spaces can be rethought to invent new ways of living through organization, form, and material. He is especially interested in the re-imagination of existing structures, playing off past building types and found conditions to prompt new relationships of space and ideas of living.
His work on multi-family housing in complex urban contexts looks for inventive ways to use site and zoning limits to challenge current models of living together in cities. A complimentary focus on materials and construction techniques engages residents with their physical environments, and creates new opportunities for interaction.
He is Assistant Professor Adjunct at Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, where he teaches housing design, and coordinates first year design studios, focusing on techniques of geometric manipulation in concert with analysis of historical precedents. He has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Barnard College at Columbia University, and been a guest critic on reviews at many schools of architecture.
Ted is a licensed architect in the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, and the International Council of Museums.
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