DesignBuildBLUFF is a program for graduate students to realize architecture that nurtures the spirit and improves the lives of all who experience it.
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What's DesignBuildBLUFF

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DesignBuildBLUFF is a non-profit organization that builds environmentally sustainable homes in the Navajo Nation. Our work introduces first-year graduate students in architecture to the culture and history of Utah’s desert southeast, where they design, and ultimately build a home for a Navajo Family.

 

DesignBuildBLUFF seeks to engage its constituents--students, volunteers, staff, in the realization that architecture can provide unparalleled personal enrichment and quality of life. Our projects incorporate salvaged and found materials, modern technologies, and traditional building methods. Calloused hands, engaged minds, and open hearts align with resourcefulness and ingenuity to create a home for some of the last people to expect it.

 

Please check out DBB's yearly schedule to understand what the students will do with DesignBuildBLUFF.

 

 

 

Recent News and Announcement

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DesignBuildBLUFF HONORED BY THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS (Nov 22, 2011)
88Bikes (Nov 22, 2011)
Illuminate (Nov 21, 2011)
Year of the Cape (Nov 21, 2011)
Design. Build. Buy... (Jun 28, 2011)

 

 

 

 

 

 Leader's view

 

Hank Louis, the leader of DesignBuildBLUFF talked about the DesignBuildBLUFF in PCTV.

 

 

 Students' view

 

Students 2009 talked about what they experienced at the site.

 

 

 Resident's view

 

Caroline, the resident of our project 2007 "Sweet Caroline House", talked about what they thought.

 

 

 

 

 Recent Hank's Diary

 

( Nov 22, 2011 )
Can architecture change lives?

 

( Jun 29, 2011 )
Hank Louis 60, Ghost 13

 

( Mar 22, 2011 )
2011 goal: Fail Harder

 

( Dec 14, 2010 )
Thoughts About Spring

 

( Sep 16, 2010 )
Zion diary piece

 

 

 

 Recent Students' Blog

 

( Feb 03, 2012 )
Raising the Block

 

( Feb 01, 2012 )
You do what you are most scared of

 

( Jan 31, 2012 )
Plaster Masters!

 

( Jan 31, 2012 )
Don't ever look back. Don't ever look back.

 

( Jan 21, 2012 )
January finally arrived ...

 

 

 

 Recent Culture News

 

( Jul 10, 2009 )
Navajo Artifact Traffickers Arrested

 

( Jul 09, 2009 )
Culture page will start soon!

 

 

 

Supporter's Goods

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Men's black hoodie

DesignBuildBLUFF Men's Black Hoodie

price: $75 and shipping fee
size: Large, X-Large
color: Black
fabric thickness: very thick