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The Commercial Design Process: How it Works in Cape Town

DesignScape Architects

Commercial architects need to cater to the public and understand how large groups use communal spaces while maximising functionality, comfort, and safety for everyone who enters the building. Many corporate institutions will have branding requirements that must be included in designs.

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Building Bad

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

In one class we did bring in a younger student who used a wheelchair to get a firsthand account on navigating buildings and help us figure out what a building designed for such a disability might be like, but he professed to prefer one-story buildings without any inclines, something I didn't find helpful at the time.

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Doris Duke Theatre, Becket, Massachusetts

e-architect

Mecanoo, led by Creative Director and Founding Partner Francine Houben, is serving as the lead architect for the new building project, in partnership with New York-based architecture firm Marvel, led by Jonathan Marvel, founding principal, as the architect of record and landscape architects.

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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

An Architect, licensed to practice outside the United States , is NOT to call themselves an Architect in the US, unless they have met the NCARB and State architectural registration boards requirements and hold an active registration. Programming and Analysis (PA) – About understanding the problem the design will solve.