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Studio Lessons 101: Diagrams

Life of an Architect

After a week full of various studio reviews, I realized how essential diagrams are to the presentation of one’s architectural ideas. While they may not hold a large place within the practice of architecture, they are certainly critical to success in the process of architectural education.

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access by David Gissen, published by University of Minnesota Press. architect, verb: The New Language of Building by Rienier de Graaf, published by Verso. No doubt, people reading this book are eager to take on the question.

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How to Layout a Pediment: 350 years of instructions

Jane Griswold Radocchia

In 1540 Sebastiano Serlio drew this sketch in Book IV of his On Architecture.* The diagram shows the actual twine held tight at Points A and B. Palladio doesn't describe this, but the roofs in his The Four Books of Architecture (1570) use the same pitch. Vignola's book on architecture was translated, of course.

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Crescent School of Architecture | architectureRED

ArchiDiaries

Excerpt: Crescent School of Architecture is an architectural project designed by architectureRED in Chennai. Project Description. (“Text as submitted by architect”). An architecture school has a curriculum that facilitates both active and passive learning. Diagrams & Drawings.

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Do I Have to Be an Artist to Be an Architect?

The Student Architect

You're sitting there thinking to yourself, well, I can't do that; I must not be cut out for architecture. So many people feel the same as you do, and many of them let those thoughts get in the way of pursuing their dream to study architecture. Let's make one thing clear—architecture school isn't art school.

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Architecture and Math

Life of an Architect

If you ever thought about being an architect but thought you couldn’t handle the math, you aren’t alone. It’s too bad that more than most people think this but just like a handful of other stereotypes about architects that aren’t true, I am here to tell you that you do not have to be great at math to be an architect.

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Do you really want to be an architect?

Life of an Architect

Do you really want to be an architect? Being an architect is rewarding in ways that I don’t think could be easily replicated in a different field of work. I would say I get that question a lot but it’s really phrased “Do I really want to be an architect?” – SIDEBAR – “ What’s a tag?

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