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Budget Breakdown: Near Melbourne, Former Bandmates Make a Modest House Sing for $290K

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Noordhoff and James had been the drummer and guitarist in a successful indie rock band, Kilns , before Noordhoff went off to architecture school. Jade Cantwell Zara and James had been living in Melbourne for over a decade, and they were looking to move outside the city when they discovered the parcel in the former mining town.

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A Love Letter to "Home: A Short History of an Idea," the Book That Defined My Idea of Comfort

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In fact, many of the things Rybczynski learned in architecture school and beyond seemed to directly contradict the concept. Without even thinking about it, Rybczynski’s intellectual pursuit of comfort has mirrored mine in my adult life—or, mine his. Life is difficult enough as is, so why should my furniture be, too?

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Architecture School in a Box

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Before I enrolled in architecture school in the late summer of 1991 (has it been 32 years?), As architecture schools greet new students this fall, I thought it would be fun to revisit that list of “must-haves” after having practiced architecture for 30 years. You'll use a lot of this in architecture school.

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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

Life of an Architect

Number 2 Your Projects from Architecture School are Silly September 4, 2014 Projects in architectural school tend to be somewhat outrageous – designing something to exist on the dark side of the moon isn’t all that unlikely. But what is the point of designing these incredibly odd and silly projects?

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Architecture in the Real World … sorta

Life of an Architect

One of the things having a web site like mine affords you is a peek behind the curtain – curtains in just about every nook and cranny of the planet. One of the most common themes of these emails is that architecture school is nothing like working in the real world.

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Your Projects from Architecture School are Silly

Life of an Architect

Today is a first – I am doing something that I told myself that I would never do … show you one of my projects from architecture school. The grade of the project site fell off very rapidly – part of the reason that this very real site had never been built upon. Why the change of heart?

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Architectural Studio - 4 Questions | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

/ Architectural Studio – 4 Questions Architectural Studio – 4 Questions Bob Borson — May 8, 2014 — 30 Comments A large percentage of the articles I write on this site are the result of receiving the same sorts of questions over and over again.