EntreArchitect

JULY 19, 2016

By the time I got around to starting my formal architectural education, I had already completed four years of employment as an intern with several architectural firms in New York and Los Angeles. Question: Are the architecture schools properly preparing students to become successful architects?

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The story of growing Kohn Pedersen Fox from 3 partners to an international architecture firm of 700+. In 1992 Gene Kohn, Chairman and Founder of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) spoke at my architecture school. I was a 22-year-old architecture student and a born entrepreneur. Gene inspired me that day in 1992.

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Architizer

JUNE 9, 2023

The end of the Pinochet regime was an important moment for architecture in Chile, leading to a boom in architecture schools and a broader curriculum. With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs.

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Young Architect

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In her Junior and Senior years of high school, she also did an internship at an architecture firm. These experiences further reinforced for her that architecture was the right path for her, and she continued on to study architecture in college. What architecture school was like for LeEllen.

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Young Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Here’s an overview of the products featured this year/ Act quickly to take advantage of these time sensitive deals… Fundamentals of Starting An Architecture Firm – New Course The ARE Boot Camp The Young Academy The ARE Webinar The New Young Architect Academy Bookstore PPI2Pass Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

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Young Architect

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In high school, she took drafting classes and joined a group for engineering and architecture. Starting after her junior year in high school, she also worked for an architecture firm. When she was getting ready to go to college, she only applied to architecture schools. .

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2022

Gyo Obata, co-founder of the St Louis-based architecture firm HOK , has passed away at the age of 99. The news of Obata's death on 8 March 2022 was announced by HOK, which shared a retrospective of his life and works on its website. Obata is known for designing the Community of Christ Temple in Missouri.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 12, 2022

Data from the 2020 annual report of the NAAB revealed that 50% of the students enrolled in NAAB-accredited architecture programs were female. 1 Yet, the percentage of women who obtained their architect license, achieve upper management positions, become partners and own architectural firms have not increased as men’s percentages have.

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Young Architect

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Encouraged by a friend (who is now a famous You Tuber), he sent out a large number of CVs and ended up landing a job in a top firm as his first job. In today’s episode, Stephen talks about his experience working in recruiting for architecture firms. Where Stephen went to architecture school. Architecture Social.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2022

This means that for every £1 earned by men working at the UK's largest architecture firms, women on average earned only 83.5p. Foster + Partners, the UK's largest architecture firm with more than 1,000 employees, had a mean pay gap of 22.3 But at all 11 firms which paid bonuses men were awarded more than women on average.

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Bustler

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Architects Declare started in the UK in 2019 by inviting architectural firms to sign on as signatories to a joint declaration and has grown into a global network with declarations from 23 countries.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

The gender pay gap at Foster + Partners is the widest it has been since the data was first compiled six years ago despite an overall improvement at the UK 's largest architecture firms year-on-year, official figures show. The Royal Institute of British Architects reported a 9.3 per cent gap following a marked narrowing from 15.1

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Deezen

JUNE 29, 2022

Architecture firms should adopt more collaborative leadership styles to address labour grievances in the industry, says co-CEO of the world's biggest architecture studio Andy Cohen, in this exclusive interview. "I Unlike many architecture firms, he said, Gensler offers both performance-based bonuses and overtime pay.

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Young Architect

MAY 14, 2022

Studying design from at one of the many great architecture programs is, in my (admittedly, biased) opinion, one of the greatest educations a person could get as well as an amazing industry to work in. Architecture School. Having an architecture license is not a prerequisite to having a successful career in architecture.

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Architizer

MARCH 20, 2023

For culture to “eat strategy for breakfast” and be levered for business purposes, it needs to be approached intentionally and be defined by values (according to the Culture500 research project, a joint endeavor between MIT’s Sloan School of Business and Glassdoor). In most architecture firms, culture is developed organically.

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Archmark

APRIL 6, 2023

Taking the Guesswork Out of Social Media for Architects What social media platforms to choose for your architecture firm and how to use them A strong social media presence is essential for any business in today’s digital world - and the architecture industry is no exception.  Is social media even appropriate for architects?

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Architizer

APRIL 19, 2023

Studio Culture in Architecture Schools In their design for the Abedian School of Architecture in QLD, Australia, Crab Studio sought to rethink the traditional bounds of architecture’s pedagogical spaces. Part III looks at how to intentionally create a values-based teaching and learning culture.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

One of the most common themes of these emails is that architecture school is nothing like working in the real world. My parents thought I should go into a different major, but I really wanted to be an architect, so I went to architecture school. I was still in architecture school as everyone else graduated.

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e-architect

JUNE 6, 2023

A strong advocate for organic architecture, Hollingsworth believed in designing homes to fit into their natural surroundings and using natural or locally made materials at a time when many homebuilders still looked to Europe for design inspiration and imported materials.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Competitions are a integral part of the architecture experience. Since architecture school and throughout our careers, design competitions have provided a vehicle for architects to promote our talents and showcase our skills. Announcing The Architecture Business Plan Competition.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 11, 2017

Throughout the winter before graduating, I wrote over 100 cover letters and mailed them with my standard one-page resume to every architecture firm in the New York metropolitan area. Being unique got me noticed in the very noisy world of architecture internship. Firm leaders are busier than ever. Be Respectful.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

London Architecture Designs – chronological list. London Architecture Tours – tailored UK capital city walks by e-architect. London Architects Offices – architectural firm listings on e-architect. London Architecture News.

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Architects Tales

APRIL 1, 2019

For aspiring architects, the rule is first encountered as students when they enter architectural school and are told that one half of the students in their class will drop out either in the first year or no later than before graduation. As Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, says in his book, ARCHITECT?

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

1 – Starting at the academic level, the architecture schools’ curriculum of the 21st century need to include collaboration with contractors, developers and business owners. 2 – After graduation, the newly minted architectural intern should enter a dedicated network of architecture firms.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 17, 2022

Overall, what struck me about the list was the way the majority of the titles appeared to skirt architecture and design, with the monograph on Lewerentz and Douglas Spencer's Critique of Architecture firmly within the bounds of architecture but the other three books more on the field's margins.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Having spent his childhood making play homes with scraps that weren’t far off from the houses he and his friends lived in, Wandile petitioned Durban’s mayor and municipality to financially back his architecture schooling in the United States.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

Architects – Getting Your First Job Getting your first job in an architecture school is more about who you are than what you can do. I thought I would put together some basics tips and strategies that might help you find the perfect firm for you. Maybe you shouldn’t be in architecture school … you don’t have what it takes.

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e-architect

JANUARY 26, 2022

any Elementary School is a world full of diverse environments and various characters, which encourage not only students to discover and learn. Elementary school in Komo?any Project Name: Elementary school in Komo?any. Architecture Firm: XTOPIX ( www.xtopix.cz ). Status: 1st prize in architectural competition.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 16, 2014

Competitions are a integral part of the architecture experience. Since architecture school and throughout our careers, design competitions provide a vehicle for architects to promote our talents and showcase our skills. If you want to achieve specific goals and seek to be the best you can be, then you need to develop a plan.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 18, 2021

I only met him once, at the Architecture Foundation in London with my boss Eva Jiricna (ex-Richard Rogers), but his influence was already pervasive on my thinking before starting at architecture school in 1989. 14 Dec 2015 – The architecture firm Wins ULI J.C. Richard Rogers Award News.

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Architects Tales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Backing up a bit, when I graduated from architecture school, I returned to Wisconsin to look for a job with an architectural firm to continue my apprenticeship. My path to become a licensed attorney had a zig-zag trajectory – often nudged in unexpected directions by other people.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Throughout the winter before graduating, I wrote over 100 cover letters and mailed them with my standard one-page resume to every architecture firm in the New York metropolitan area. Being unique got me noticed in the very noisy world of architecture internship. Firm leaders are busier than ever. Be Respectful.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

When you are in the weeds of construction documents, RFI’s, AFP’s, and need a mind refresher, pick up Thinking Architecture. Tadao Ando Conversations With Students by Tadao Ando – Ando has always been one of my favorite architects since I “discovered” him at my undergrad architecture school library.

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A4 Architects

APRIL 30, 2024

In Honor of Our 20 Year Anniversary I graduated from Architectural School in 1990 and received my professional license to practice architecture by passing all eight exams by 1993, which was the earliest I was allowed to sit for the exams following a three-year required internship period.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 26, 2015

I’m currently enrolled in the 2 + 4 Bachelor of Architecture Program and working full-time at an architecture firm. Around Architecture school, I hear most people dissing the themed Lego sets in favor of the creative freedom that come from the big box of various blocks.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 22, 2018

I ended up applying to half architecture schools and then half liberal arts schools because part of me thought that I might want it to be like a comp lit major, but I ended up only getting into the architecture school. I loved architectural school, but I also know there’s times where you hate it.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

When I was in my third year of architecture school, I picked up an issue of Entrepreneur magazine at the local supermarket. In 1999, my wife (also an architect) and I launched our residential architecture firm, Fivecat Studio , in Westchester County, New York. It was all so exciting! Annmarie and I are a great team.

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