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Inside the mind of an architecture student

Architecture Chat

Five years of a learning experience The mind of an architecture student is indeed a cauldron filled with fretting emotions, art, thought-provoking ideas, stories, and myriad experiences. Five years spent in an architecture school are nothing less than a roller-coaster that persuades you to find hidden values and varying purposes.

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2022 Reverse Crit

SW Oregon Architect

This past Thursday evening, representatives from three AIA Oregon firms presented projects currently in design for scrutiny by University of Oregon architecture students in the 2022 Reverse Crit. Real clients and genuine issues are in play in all projects architects undertake, so exposure to that aspect of design can be revealing.

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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Career / Surviving Architecture School Surviving Architecture School Bob Borson — December 16, 2013 — 49 Comments Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific. What happens when you are actually still in school? The person with the most skills typically wins.

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Free Housing for Educators Benefits Teachers as Well as Families

Dwell

A new multifamily building in New Haven by students at Yale’s architecture school provides relief for an underpaid workforce—and their community. A housing experiment is unfolding in New Haven. The initiative’s success kicked off a masterplan to provide free housing to all its educators on a campus.

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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

Invoicing clients, . Managing their clients and employees. Studying design from at one of the many great architecture programs is, in my (admittedly, biased) opinion, one of the greatest educations a person could get as well as an amazing industry to work in. Architecture School. Working on construction drawings.

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Life in General / Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Bob Borson — October 24, 2013 — 38 Comments 23 years ago, as a fourth year architecture student, I spent the Fall semester traveling around Western Europe soaking in all the architectural wonders I could find.

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Architecture should abandon "top-down" management to improve working conditions says Gensler co-CEO

Deezen

Earlier this year, employees of New York firm SHoP formed the US's first union of architecture workers in 70 years alleging "endless overtime and deadlines", while two faculty members at the Sci-Arc architecture school were placed on administrative leave after suggesting that architecture students should work long hours for low pay.