Ben Farrell, owner and principal architect, is a graduate of Syracuse University but attributes most of his formative experiences to time spent in Florence, Italy and Copenhagen, Denmark. His curiosity with architecture came at a young age in Copenhagen by spray painting graffiti on the drab and boring ends of buildings that seemed otherwise forgotten. He legitimized this passion for unauthorized aesthetic improvement with an architectural education, some of which was spent studying the classics in the architecturally fecund areas of Tuscany. These contrasting experiences spawned an equally contentious philosophy that continues to juxtapose the respect of classical order with a modernity that says "nothing is sacred", improvement happens everywhere and sometimes the rules are just wrong. He resides in Southern Marin with a studio in Sausalito.

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Benjamin Rasmussen is a freelance photographer based in Denver, Colorado.

The sun just touched the morning; the morning, happy thing, supposed that he had come to dwell, and life would be all spring. Emily Dickinson

Benjamin Waechter, Architect is an architecture office based in Portland, Oregon. Ben Waechter builds on his 12 years of experience working locally and internationally for leaders in architecture including Allied Works Architecture (Portland, Oregon) and world renowned architect Renzo Piano (Genoa, Italy). Ben has worked on a wide range of building types from residential to commercial to cultural including such projects as the High Museum of Art and the Seattle Art Museum.

geeky anything, mid-century modern, photography, dogs, goats, chickens

The last time San Francisco–based industrial designer Benjamin Laramie made any sort of flower out of paper was in elementary school. For the April 2010 issue's “Dwell Reports”, however, Laramie was asked to fill nine planters with botanicals made entirely of paper. After studying a vintage illustrated encyclopedia of houseplants, he abstracted and handcrafted over 20 varieties of flora made up of hundreds of individual pieces, no two being exactly alike.

Benjamin Parco is a Bay Area architect with over twenty years of experience in the architectural profession. Over this period he has established himself as a leader in the field of architectural design, acting as the chief designer on an unusually wide range of challenging project types ranging from high-rise office towers and aquaria to performing arts theaters and airports.