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Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen develops modular building system to address the global housing crisis

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The studio is now working on the next version of the prototype with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Architecture School. Photo is by Cristóbal Valdés "Our system allows solving other typologies such as buildings for collective housing, health, education and various types of equipment," he said.

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007: A Survivor’s Guide to Architecture School

Life of an Architect

Fall is just around the corner and that means it’s time for students around the country to return to their desk’s at architecture school. While it wasn’t mandatory to do your work up on school property, back in my time, this was true for 99.99% of the people in architecture school.

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Arquitectonica designs "organic yet contemporary" skyscraper for Hawaiian island

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New York architecture studio Arquitectonica has designed a residential skyscraper with undulating fins on its facade and a landscaped terrace garden in Honolulu, Hawaii. Called The Launiu, the 40-storey skyscraper is located in the Ward Village development in Hawaii's capital Honolulu on the island of Oahu.

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Students set out ideas for better urban living in My ArchiSchool's first publication

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Promotion: housing for large families and communal spaces for people and pets are just two of the ten urban design concepts presented in the first-ever publication from Hong Kong educational institution My ArchiSchool. Launching next month during the architecture school's Youth ArchiDesign Exhibition, Shall We?

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Interior Educators spotlights 11 award-winning student interior design projects

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Over the course of three weeks, the interior design students split into six groups to research, design, develop and build full-scale objects for their dance counterparts to engage with in a live choreographed performance. The concept is to create a visually invigorating space and create layers of foraging.

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Ten architecture projects by students at London South Bank University

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As a London school of architecture, the DoA distinctly positions itself to deliver the highest quality education – theoretically, academically, environmentally and ethically – using innovative research and digital technologies to secure employment in industry. "We

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V&A's Tropical Modernism exhibition explores "the politics behind the concrete"

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According to the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), the exhibition aims to examine the complex context, power dynamics and post-colonial legacy of tropical modernism – an architectural style that developed in South Asia and West Africa in the late 1940s – while also centralising and celebrating its hidden figures.

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