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Budget Breakdown: Near Melbourne, Former Bandmates Make a Modest House Sing for $290K

Dwell

Noordhoff and James had been the drummer and guitarist in a successful indie rock band, Kilns , before Noordhoff went off to architecture school. Jade Cantwell Zara and James had been living in Melbourne for over a decade, and they were looking to move outside the city when they discovered the parcel in the former mining town.

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A Love Letter to "Home: A Short History of an Idea," the Book That Defined My Idea of Comfort

Dwell

In fact, many of the things Rybczynski learned in architecture school and beyond seemed to directly contradict the concept. Without even thinking about it, Rybczynski’s intellectual pursuit of comfort has mirrored mine in my adult life—or, mine his. Life is difficult enough as is, so why should my furniture be, too?

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CJ Hendry transforms a defunct East London church into a giant ‘snow globe’

The Spaces

After initially exploring venue options stateside, Hendry was tipped off about the Bethnal Green church by a friend from her architecture school days. Epilogue has been three years in the making, paused temporarily by the pandemic and located in the UK by serendipity. ” It was really natural; one thing led to another.’

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Influences: Louis I. Kahn

SW Oregon Architect

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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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. You'll use a lot of this in architecture school.

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Memories from Architecture Studio

Life of an Architect

I have also been taking part in a handful of architecture school jury panels lately. I am a little vain as a designer but not oblivious to the fact that I recognize that there were one or two other classmates of mine that have turned out to be the proverbial rockstar designer.

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Architecture in the Real World … sorta

Life of an Architect

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.