Robert Hansen is a fine art / architectural photographer / teacher / designer who has published numerous books on his photography and has designed and published a book for The Huntington Library on "The Architecture of Wallace Neff". Robert's large format fine art photography book "Yucatan Passages" was also published by Laguna Wilderness Press in 2004. This book, showcasing his photography and travels for 10 years in the Yucatan is available through Amazon or by contacting the author directly at robertahansen@roberthansen.com

Open City Design Institute is a non-profit branch of STUFF (Studio for Transformative Urban Forms and Fields) that engages the city through public programs, exhibitions, competitions, publications, research, learning and practice. We believe that tomorrow is defined by new generation of designers and their urban visions. We are committed in building this tomorrow by cross-exposure and cross-exploration of designers, their works, values and visions. We are also interested in strengthening and constructing the city’s capacity to value and celebrate design. Open City Design Institute will activate and speculate new perspectives and capacities through four generative program strands: platform, press, practice, and project.

Welcome to Mandala Custom Homes! This Plan and Design Book is our way of inviting you to step into our world – with photos of our team, our home town and nature images that we love- plus, of course, an exclusive collection of our most recent designs and floor plans. Our goal is to give you an inspirational boost from the best minds in circular design. Every Mandala Home is a custom home, but these floor plans can provide you with a "jumping off" place to begin the process of designing your dream home.

Build Your Dream Home and a New Lifestyle! For those craving a new home, Mandala Homes provides unique dwellings that are meaningful, healthy and energy efficient. Our guarantee that your new home will be more comfortable than a standard home comes from the experience of building British Columbia’s first ENERGY STAR qualified home in 2010. Mandala Homes’ full design and planning service is backed by over 50 years of house building expertise. Our expertly crafted homes are shipped to anywhere in the world directly to your site where they are assembled and finished to rest in place for many generations to come. Purchasing a Mandala Home can support your change to a more comfortable and relaxing lifestyle along with low monthly energy costs and architecture that nourishes the soul. Our work is rooted in traditional design principles combined with performance based building technology. We have a clear dedication to listen to our clients so we can create the home of their dreams.

This book follows on from the first three books about Unit D, one of the vertical design studios within the School of the Built Environment for undergraduate students at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom. Within these pages we have captured the work for the academic year September 2015 – May 2016 where the focus of research was the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Designed and constructed under the project name, Core Campus, the $98-million, 260,000 square foot building was the most significant student-oriented facilities project since the Johnstone Hall and Student Union project of the 1950s and the Bryan Mall projects of the 1960s. There are resident rooms for 688 students and a 1,200-seat dining facility as well as office and meeting spaces for the Calhoun Honors College. The project is located on the site formerly occupied by Johnstone Hall sections D, E, and F. At the time of this publication, the building remains officially unnamed. Robert M. Seel served as part of the Core Campus project team during construction as a local resource architect. During almost daily site visits from February 2015 through to September 2016, Rob took nearly 27,000 photographs to document the project’s construction progress. Among those visits, several opportunities and views for creative photography arose, often unexpectedly. Many of these views and shots, unseen by the general public, are presented in this monograph. Steel columns, concrete shafts, precast planks, trusses all put together in orthogonal geometry crisscrossed by cranes and boom lifts against a Carolina blue sky. The visual rhythms were as strong as the sounds of the work itself. All photographs are the property of the artist-author, Robert M. Seel and RMS Architecture, LLC, working as an independent consultant to the Core Campus project team.

Robert M. Seel is a national award-winning architect, artist, musician, coffee roaster, railroad modeler, and Clemson University graduate (BS Design with Calhoun College Departmental Honors, 1988; M-Arch 1990). Originally from New Jersey, Rob has lived in upstate South Carolina since coming to Clemson in 1984. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the National Model Railroad Association, and Clemson Artists Guild. Rob and his wife, Frances, have two creative daughters. Rob is president of RMSArchitecture and is a faculty member of the Clemson University School of Architecture.