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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

Life of an Architect

Number 4 Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress June 12, 2014 How does a pier and beam foundation work? A close up look at the progress on the KHouse Modern and an opportunity to explain how pier and beam foundations work. On the residential part of our practice, we do a lot of pier and beam foundations.

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Book Briefs #43

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Like The Battle for Home , Building for Hope 's text is accompanied by the architect's own sketches, this time depicting places well beyond her native Syria. Nakashima's involvement is one of many things I learned in the short but necessary book on an important work of modern architecture.

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Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Boasting as many pages as An Atlas of Es Devlin is Copper Hewitt's guide to its own collection, made with designer Irma Boom when the institution completed a major overhaul of its Upper East Side home (the former Andrew Carnegie mansion) in late 2014/early 2015. and "foundation" (piles, spread, caissons).

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Arquine Competition MEXTÓPOLI 2022 Pavilion

e-architect

From a vision specialized in the dissemination and research of architecture, it generates a critical dialogue that develops in parallel with art, design and urbanism. Architect, researcher and editor, PhD in architecture. In 2014 he obtained an Honorable Mention in the Contest for the Mexico Pavilion at the Milan Expo 2015.

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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: Women’s Opportunity Center, Rwanda; right: Sharon Davis, image via Curbed.