the love, life & work of Blake Johnson
This past weekend I had the awesome opportunity of heading up to Freedom, NH, to help out in the cutting of a timberframe for a new contemplative study center at High Meadow Farms. Our hosts, Charlie and Holly, were so generous and warm, and the team that went up was a blast to work with. […]
The second project I got to work on this summer with Mitch Ryerson was a boat house structure, dock, and boat for a playground in Brookline Village. It was a blast. This was a unique experience because we couldn’t get on site until way later in the season, so we spent the bulk of the […]
As a way in to thinking about scale and inventing environments, I built the thing I’d last built, and knew most how to. A miniature timberframe. The fun of it got under my skin in a heartbeat and I was able to zoom through a few weeks, excited about making a fully realistic miniature timberframe […]
So last year I went with MassArt to Virginia to take part in a collaborative project between said school, the Virginia Military Institute, and the Timber Framer’s Guild. And this year we did it again. Most students, more cadets, and more fun. The students designed the structure for a Habitat for Humanity community that was […]
The Virignia Military Institute conducted a timberframing project near their campus in Virginia, and members of our Sculpture department were lucky enough to participate.