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Book Briefs #41: Six Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

This new monograph on Archi-Tectonics, the New York firm of Winka Dubbeldam , has six of them: positioned in pairs close to the binding, the holes give the impression of a notebook or a binder full of documents rather than a polished monograph.

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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

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. 5-7 years).

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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 II: Historical Background, Today’s Context and Future Steps

Architizer

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. Cultural change became a focus of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) in the late 1990s.

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Our First Architecture Project [#ArchiTalks]

EntreArchitect

It’s not only the story of my first project, but the complete story of how my wife and architect business partner Annmarie McCarthy and I started our own architecture firm. How I Started My Own Architecture Firm. I always knew I would someday have my own firm. I’m a born entrepreneur… quite literally.

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My 12 Rules for Landing Your First Job in Architecture

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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. There were hundreds of architecture students graduating that spring and they were all competing for the same few positions available in the region.

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Arquine Competition MEXTĂ“POLI 2022 Pavilion

e-architect

Architect, researcher and editor, PhD in architecture. Co-founder of MAIO, an architecture firm that works on flexible systems where notions such as variation, ephemeral or ad hoc, allow theoretical positions to materialize. The invitation is open to architects and architecture students all over the world.