SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I also use Twitter to broaden the reach of this blog, as many of my updates announce and link the latest SW Oregon Architect posts. Architectural legacies are complex, as the profession’s pedagogy. There has been without a doubt a Eurocentric bias within the paradigm of architectural education (indoctrination).

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 21, 2023

Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family emergency had me put this blog on hiatus. The book is a fitting result of a building, the Petite École , that functions as an architecture school for children.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 11, 2022

Here is the 42nd installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog.

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Glass Architecture School Art Education 101

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 17, 2022

Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley MCD × FSG, July 2021 Hardcover | 5-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches | 416 pages | English | ISBN: 9780374126582 | $28.00 She lives in Los Angeles.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 25, 2021

After getting into architecture school, one of the first things you learn is that the profession requires a lot of sacrifices and many years in order to reach success. To support this claim, the average age of the Pritzker prize winner (as of 2021) is 64 years old. Sacrifice and Patience.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 30, 2023

In my decade working as an architect in Chicago, from 1997, after graduating from architecture school, to 2006, when I left for grad school in New York City, I made many, many — many — trips to Prairie Avenue Bookshop, spending too much money there but always feeling when I walked out the door that I could have easily spent much, much more.

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Deconstruction Diagram Architect Architecture 52

Community Architect

JUNE 9, 2022

Introduction to the guest blog When in 1968 the then President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Robert Durham, FAIA, extended an invitation to the executive director of the National Urban League, Whitney M. She wrote this guest contribution describing her approach to teaching equity in architecture school.

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