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Architecture School in a Box

30X40 Design Workshop

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. What’s stood the test of time in my practice?

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Get Lectured: University of Hong Kong, Spring '24

Archinect

The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture has shared its slate of Spring ‘24 programming to go along with our Get Lectured look at what’s happening at various architecture schools. He will be followed on Tuesday, February 23, by a lecture from Bas Smets on microclimates and urban development.

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How practicing professionals can help academic researchers combat climate change

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Led by the university’s architecture school with support from computer science, engineering, and business professors, the ongoing research seeks to develop methods to measure embodied carbon in the construction industry: a category which accounts for 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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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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Gorskaya Territory Development | Selected Participants

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PETERSBURG, 76 COMPANIES FROM 16 COUNTRIES WILL COMPETE FOR THE RIGHT TO DEVELOP ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN SOLUTIONS. Acceptance of applications to participate in the International Competition for the Architectural and Urban Development Solutions for Gorskaya Territory has now ended. GORSKAYA TERRITORY IN ST. Megaline LLC.

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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. Be a participant in developing your education – nobody can read your mind and know what you want.

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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.