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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

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While 2014 isn’t technically over yet, it isn’t going to stop me [ cause I do what I want] from looking back at all the articles I wrote over the year to see which ones represented the very best that 2014 and I had to offer. On the residential part of our practice, we do a lot of pier and beam foundations.

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Pier and Beam Foundations - KHouse Progress | Life of an Architect

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Home / Construction / Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Bob Borson — June 12, 2014 — 73 Comments On the residential part of our practice, we do a lot of pier and beam foundations. Add water, through rain and irrigation, and the soil expands.

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Cool Schools: 7 Educational Structures Championing Affordable and Sustainable Construction

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Modern educational institutions are also evolving with new technology to offer high-tech learning environments for students. Several communities worldwide don’t necessarily have the same access to new-age materials, construction techniques or the funds to actualize these grand visions. This was, however, not very efficient.

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Francis Kéré announced as Pritzer Architecture Laureate 2022

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Diébédo Francis Kéré, architect, educator and social activist, has been selected as the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation. Kéré founded his practice, Kéré Architecture GmbH, in Berlin, and a Non-profit Organization, Kéré Foundation e.V.,

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Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation

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Collections Core—featuring arrays of megalodon teeth, Maya bricks, and ammonite fossils, among an assortment of scientific collections displays, on view in the Macaulay Family Foundation Collections Gallery. Collections Core, which features the Macaulay Family Foundation Collections Gallery. Gerstner, Jr. Gerstner, Jr.

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Studio Bark builds demountable Nest House with architecture students

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Architecture practice Studio Bark has collaborated with a group of students to build an accessible wooden house on a farmstead in Herefordshire, UK, using its modular U-Build system. It is the subject of a film created by a group of students mentored by production studio Stephenson& and writer Nyima Murry.

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heard around the architectural studio #013 | Life of an Architect

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Our students are experts in revit and other CAD software and currently sit 1st in Europe and 5th in the world for CAD skills (see world skills competitions). ” Moral of the story is that the student should always read the book and know how to google!!! no, wait…hold on…uh, wait…uh…it’s not working. Your Email Address.