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Kurula Varkey Design Forum 2022: Call For Entries

ArchiDiaries

The forum intends to compare processes across Architecture schools and practitioners seeking to generate a discussion on the underlying principles of processes. How are flows of information and capital changing the design process? Can the design process break away from being a slave to the template? How linear is a design process?

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The Founder of Patagonia Just Built a Straw Bale House. He Thinks You Should, Too

Dwell

Dylan Johnson: Around the year 2001 when I was 19 or 20, my aunt and uncle built a straw bale house and I helped with the construction side of things. So, it was always on mind as I went through architecture school. Instead of just talking about it, let’s do it and prove it’s a better house and more responsible.

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Rob Krier wins his Driehaus

Architecture Here and There

Stefanos Polyzoides, dean of Notre Dame’s famous classicist architecture school and chairman of this year’s prize jury, had this to say: Rob Krier’s built work demonstrates a mastery of fine art, design and construction. Drawing for Den Haag Rivierenbuurt tower project, 2001. Or centuries. courtesy of Lucien Steil).

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Architizer Holiday Gift Guide 2022

Architizer

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School. An oldie but a goodie —Matthew Frederick had what has now become the architecture student’s bible published back in 2007, yet surprisingly, it is still as relevant today as it was then. By Matthew Frederick. and finally… Lumsburry Build-on Brick Coffee Mug.

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Citizen Architect … seems redundant

Life of an Architect

The first moment came in 2001 when I learned of Samuel Mockbee when he became a MacArthur Foundation Genius. Architectural schools are often staffed with educators who are ill at ease actually practicing in the “real world”.

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Ando and Le Corbusier

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

It also has a new translation of Ando’s essay “Le Corbusier and His Houses,” with photos of more than 100 models of Le Corbusier houses made by Ando’s students in Tokyo, 2001, with Ando's commentary included in English for the first time. Worth by Philip Jodidio (Rizzoli, 2008) Tadao Ando 2: Outside Japan (Toto, 2008) Casa BRUTUS No.

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KING BEE RULES

Shades of Grey

In 2001 I had a little three piece blues band in Zimbabwe. Returning to architecture school as a mature student I was pursuing the idea of architecture as the reflection of a particular time and place, often subliminally expressed. Seen here at the Art Cafe in Avondale. A page from my history pack of 1992.