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What is Architecture?

Life of an Architect

What is architecture? How do we define architecture as a profession, as a practice, as a concept? I’ve been talking a lot about this lately with colleagues on this topic, so I wanted to attempt a definition of architecture, in my opinion. The post What is Architecture?

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5 Things I Learned from my First Interview

The Aspiring Architect

Thankfully (really, miraculously) I somehow got an internship offer after that interview, but I definitely knew I had some areas I needed to drastically improve. For example, during my 4 th year of architecture school, I was the VP of Communications for my sorority. Definitely not enough to get me hired based on it alone.

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Deconstructivist architecture "challenges the very values of harmony, unity and stability"

Deezen

Instead, Derrida argued, meaning emerged dynamically in relationships between adjacent signifiers and he put forward new concepts, such as différance, which evaded binary systems. Chief among these, for Derrida, was the primacy of speech over writing, and ultimately of signified over signifier.

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American University in Dubai presents 15 architecture projects

Deezen

It is a different type of architecture that suggests an experience based in their own way.". The concept of the project is based on converting humidity into usable water. The main concept derives from the maps of typical 2D video games. A fundamental concept is that the quarry's life cycle be reversed. Course: ARCH 502.

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Ulster University Belfast Campus Building

e-architect

These priorities are like those of many Universities across the UK and this may point to a Northern Ireland, that in spite of unresolved social divisions, is finding a space that points definitively forward. There are four such atria, almost urban squares in plan, that aid navigation, natural light and organisation.

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The legacy of deconstructivism "makes me want to retreat to the back of the room" says Bernard Tschumi

Deezen

He cites Norman Foster's recent proposal for a skyscraper in New York and "the architect from Denmark" as people who built on the form-making concepts developed by deconstructivism. But from that day, it's what was being built by the big corporation that was influenced by what was being done in the schools of architecture?

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Rotterdam (3) - The Next Economy

Community Architect

This definition closely tracks the concept of social resilience and its relation to space. Some plans with great long-term potential, such as urban manufacturing, can benefit from this flexible planning environment. In one place it is described as "human interaction, creation of denser urban spaces and enabling social interaction.”