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Winning was "immensely rewarding and almost surreal" say past Designers of the Year winner

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Architecture firm White Arkitekter said winning a Dezeen Award "definitely increased exposure internationally", while Parisian interior design studio Uchronia said it was "a great honour, acknowledgement and motivation to keep going".

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

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Home / Life in General / Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Bob Borson — October 24, 2013 — 38 Comments 23 years ago, as a fourth year architecture student, I spent the Fall semester traveling around Western Europe soaking in all the architectural wonders I could find.

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The Culture of Architecture Needs an Overhaul, Part 1: The Necessity of Cultural Change

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Similarly, university professors struggled with engagement without an in-person learning environment for architecture students. However, the culture within a firm or school does not manifest only when people gather together. In most architecture firms, culture is developed organically.

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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

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Architecture school is often about examining information and using that information to creatively find solutions to problems. . Architecture school teaches you to think differently, rewires your brain and most architecture students graduate being a very different person from when they started. The Profession.

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5 Tips to pick the right architectural firm for practice or internship that no one told you about

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Architecture professional experience or internships have gradually become more than just being part of the academic curriculum or a tick mark on a to do list as an architecture student. Geography stands as an important criterion while deciding to practice architecture internship or gain some professional experience.

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Drafts that might be “Better Left for Dead”

Life of an Architect

If there is a topic I can spontaneously talk about, it’s this blog … it is the closest thing I have to a hobby ( which is incredibly sad on so many levels ) and I definitely have a Love / Hate relationship with it. Post Title: How to Avoid the 10 Mistakes Every Architecture Student Makes Excerpt: [secret] What Happened?

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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One could spend hours thumbing through the renderings of United Design Architects , or UDA, the Tehran and Portland based architecture firm co-founded by Iranian architect Raha Ashrafi. Left: Hobhouse, London, United Kingdom, 2020 A+Awards Jury Winner in the Architecture +Brick category; Right: Cécile Brisac via Architonic.