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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Career / Surviving Architecture School Surviving Architecture School Bob Borson — December 16, 2013 — 49 Comments Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific. What happens when you are actually still in school? The person with the most skills typically wins.

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Until Proven Safe

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

With Until Proven Safe , they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces–––biological, political, technological––that shape our modern world.

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An Alphabet of Architectural Models

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

An Alphabet of Architectural Models Edited by Teresa Frankhänel, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Simona Valeriani, Matthew Wells Merrell , October 2021 Flexicover | 6-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches | 128 pages | 88 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781858946979 | $37.95 Teresa Fankhänel is a Curator at the Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität, Munich.

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Influences: Louis I. Kahn

SW Oregon Architect

At the time, the trajectory of European modernism was establishing its ascendency over historical approaches to the design and organization of buildings. Indeed, upon establishing his own office in 1936, the work of his European contemporaries heavily influenced Kahn’s approach to architecture.

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Rob Krier wins his Driehaus

Architecture Here and There

the first hero of the classical revival, who founded and presided for many years over the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, and whose pathbreaking 1959 book on modern architecture taught many that classical architecture was not dead. The Reed award was named for the arch-classicist Henry Hope Reed Jr.,

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20 Best Architecture Firms in Los Angeles

Architizer

Home to iconic landmarks such as Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall and Richard Meier’s Getty Center, Los Angeles’ architecture has become greatly influenced by the entertainment industry. Starting from its architectural schools, the city promotes alternative design practices. And that’s the way we like it.

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Deconstructivism "killed off postmodernism" says Peter Eisenman

Deezen

In other words, if modernism was a white box, and Pomo was a grey box with decoration – with whipped cream on it, sprayed out of a can, deconstructivism broke the box open, and you had basically shards," he continued. There's been nothing since then, I mean, architecture schools have no pedagogy. You had basically shards.