polytekton is a commercial and philanthropic entity that’s part of a larger network of interdisciplinary companies concerned with the built environment in its physical, historical, cultural, theoretical, and temporal representations.

polytekton has been web-accessible since 2000 but its origins go back to the 1970s when its founder began his career as an itinerant artist through a series of drawings, paintings, and large-scale murals on automobiles and buildings, and advanced this loose vector later, following an academic career, into the calling of a full-time designer and educator.

Since 1979 polytekton’s scope has progressively broadened to include architectural design, book-publishing, graphic- and web-design, ceramics, print-making, as well as more conventional design/build projects such as condo conversions, house renovations, and small buildings.

Polytekton consists of the following entities that have physical bases in Ames, Iowa and Gainesville, Florida, with a satellite office in Berlin, Germany, and less gravity-dependent manifestations in web form:

1. •Book Publishing (editing, design, and distribution): Culicidae Press, LLC, and Culicidae Architectural Press
   

2. •Graphic- and Web Design (including hosting and maintenance): 9one8Design
   

3. •Design/Build Work: misumiwaDesign
   

4. •Sound Editing and CD Design/Mastering: foghornProductions
   

5. •Shared Prose and Poetry: storyFragments
   

6. •Philanthropic Division (design for non-for-profits and educational institutions): Margaret Zach International Women Composers Library, Architecture for Humanity Iowa, Green Design Research Collaborative, Southeast Chapter Society of Architectural Historians, DignifiedDonkey
   

A portfolio of polytekton—chronicling work that has been completed in the last thirty years—will be available in the Spring of 2010 through Culicidae Architectural Press.

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