Paul Petrunia is the founder/publisher of Archinect.com (1997) & Bustler.net (2006); the president/creative director at Extra Medium, Inc., an LA-based web design/development studio; and also acts as a consultant for the design and production of web sites, specializing in those related to architecture and design. Paul studied arts and sciences at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He then moved on to study architecture at the University of Oregon and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Tadao Ando Interview: 20 Minutes with a Master, Mon, Apr 23 '12
I can easily point to Tadao Ando's work as one of my earliest sources of inspiration, pulling me toward a life embedded in architecture. The powerful simplicity of his forms has always seemed to me, to represent an understanding far greater than that of the built environment alone. A few ...
Working out of the Box: Pinterest Co-Founder Evan Sharp, Fri, Mar 16 '12
If you haven't heard of Pinterest yet, you don't get online much. Pinterest, Silicon Valley's latest darling, has skyrocketed in popularity due to its dead-simple concept and beautiful execution. It's a website (and app) that allows members to collect and share their favorite ...
Working out of the Box: Logan Amont, Wed, Apr 27 '11
Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths. Are you an architect working out of the box? Do you know of someone that has changed careers and has an interesting story to share? If you would ...
Student Works: Rock and Roll Fantasy - SCI-Arc at Coachella: Elastic Plastic Sponge, Tue, May 19 '09
The title "Rock and Roll Fantasy" might be a little misleading for this SCI-Arc studio project lead by Ball Nogues ' Benjamin Ball, Gaston Nogues and Andrew Lyon. While the program was 100% rock and roll, the practical lessons learned during this collaborative design-build ...
Danny Forster, Extreme Host, Tue, May 30 '06
This Wednesday, May 31st, a new season of the Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering will debut at 10pm. This season will introduce an on-screen host to replace the previous voice-over narrator. The new host, Danny Forster, also happens to be an architect who is currently working on his ...
Cover Page Archive, Wed, Nov 3 '04
From September 1999 to November 2001 we commissioned many of the most groundbreaking designers in the emerging new web design medium to design a monthly cover page for Archinect. The mission was to create a cover page invoking an architectural theme, using the tools that each designer was most ...
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles, CA, US, BArch, Architecture
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CA, Bachelors, Art History, Calculus & Physics
