Dwell
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Melbourne designer David Noordhoff had already established a rhythm with clients James and Zara McGuffie long before he designed their home. Noordhoff and James had been the drummer and guitarist in a successful indie rock band, Kilns , before Noordhoff went off to architecture school.
SW Oregon Architect
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA (photo by Codera23, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) An earlier blog entry of mine, “ Genealogy of Influence ,” promised a series of posts about the architects and theorists who influenced my architectural world view. This is the latest post in the series. As I write this it is Super Bowl Sunday.
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30X40 Design Workshop
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Before I enrolled in architecture school in the late summer of 1991 (has it been 32 years?), As architecture schools greet new students this fall, I thought it would be fun to revisit that list of “must-haves” after having practiced architecture for 30 years. You'll use a lot of this in architecture school.
Life of an Architect
FEBRUARY 22, 2015
One of the things having a web site like mine affords you is a peek behind the curtain – curtains in just about every nook and cranny of the planet. One of the most common themes of these emails is that architecture school is nothing like working in the real world.
Life of an Architect
JULY 19, 2014
To my bewilderment, when I arrived, Michael waited a whole ten minutes before assigning me the task of driving out, by myself, to meet a new client at her house and conduct an exhaustive series of measurements from which I would generate as-built drawings in Revit.
Deezen
MAY 10, 2022
In mine as well. There's been nothing since then, I mean, architecture schools have no pedagogy. The reason, I think, is because the client has become a developer. Where the developer is, is not about where architecture could be. And you can see it in Rem's work and Wolf's. We don't have meaningful people now.
Life of an Architect
NOVEMBER 8, 2015
When I decided to select “My First Project” as a topic for this month’s ArchiTalks topic, I knew instantly which project I would choose to focus on – not because it’s so good, but because I had all sorts of attachments that I could refer to (which is an important consideration when writing an architectural blog).
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