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Manchester School of Architecture spotlights nine architecture and humanities student projects

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Dezeen School Shows: a library inspired by the history of industrial weaving mills is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Manchester School of Architecture. We are a large school with a BA of over 650 students.

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How to Layout a Pediment: 350 years of instructions

Jane Griswold Radocchia

In 1540 Sebastiano Serlio drew this sketch in Book IV of his On Architecture.* Palladio doesn't describe this, but the roofs in his The Four Books of Architecture (1570) use the same pitch. Vignola's book on architecture was translated, of course. Was it Vignola's rule or did he just record it? He wrote, ".

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Places in Time II

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Those three US-centric books were split between two historical surveys and one case study. I reviewed Concrete Map Chicago back in 2018 and since then have noticed them putting out maps of modern architecture , brutalist architecture , public transit — even trees. 1906, when Frank Lloyd Wright completed Unity Temple.

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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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The Women Who Changed Architecture

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Discover contemporary leaders, like MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, spearheading sustainable design initiatives, reimagining cities as equitable spaces, and directing architecture schools. An essential read for architecture students, architects, and anyone interested in how buildings are created and the history behind them.

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Influences: Louis I. Kahn

SW Oregon Architect

Cret instilled in his students a reverence for Beaux-Arts principles. At the time, the trajectory of European modernism was establishing its ascendency over historical approaches to the design and organization of buildings. He also served as a visiting lecturer at Princeton University.

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Ingrid Schroder named director of the Architectural Association

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Read: "The AA has reinvented itself before and is capable of doing so again" Her appointment as director is the result of a vote by students, faculty and council members, held after each candidate presented to the school in April. Five candidates competed for role.