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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

Life of an Architect

One upside of working many jobs is that you get to experience all sorts of different project types, firm sizes, and management techniques. Number 4 Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress June 12, 2014 How does a pier and beam foundation work? Add water, through rain and irrigation, and the soil expands.

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Why Architects Should Never Stop Drawing By Hand

Architizer

At the same time, as the software revolution has taken precedence, there appears to be a fresh incentive among many architecture students and emerging professionals – actually, a kind of quiet revolution – based on a new-found desire to hone their manual skills and learn to draw in the old way. A selection of Wines’ sketches.

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The 50 Best Architecture Books

The Architect's Guide

Whether you are an architectural professional or student you should find many of these resources a welcome addition to your home or office library. I have selected a range of essential topics from architectural history and drawing techniques to sustainable design and construction methods. Buy on Amazon. Buy on Amazon.

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Letters of an Architect: Lessons from my Best Projects

Community Architect

Ah yes, and all that very contemporary sounding stuff was "fast tracked" in spite of production via the age old techniques of T-squares, ink on vellum and freehand renderings. Projects were typically "fast tracked", with excavation and concrete foundation work specified first, while everything that came later was still in design.

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Arquine Competition MEXTÓPOLI 2022 Pavilion

e-architect

Architect, researcher and editor, PhD in architecture. Co-founder of MAIO, an architecture firm that works on flexible systems where notions such as variation, ephemeral or ad hoc, allow theoretical positions to materialize. The invitation is open to architects and architecture students all over the world. Anna Puigjaner.

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because that's what architects do for fun | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Architects , Kitchen , Life in General , My House a day in the life , Architects , design , kitchens , My House , sketchup AEC Cares - projectChicago Pier and Beam Foundations -. The stuff the architecture students are learning in college is whacky. Cool, but whacky.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. Left: ARE Sketches Volume I; right: Lora Teagarden. Céline Semaan. Lora Teagarden.