Young Architect

APRIL 20, 2022

Before you can have an architecture project, you must have an architecture business. This exam is all about establishing a business, laws, ethics, contracts, and business structure. Think: Business of Architecture. Think: Investigation (not design). Project Planning and Design Exam (PPD). Think: Selection.

Contract 90

Contract Schematic Design Management Construction 90

Young Architect

MAY 14, 2022

Studying design from at one of the many great architecture programs is, in my (admittedly, biased) opinion, one of the greatest educations a person could get as well as an amazing industry to work in. Architecture School. Having an architecture license is not a prerequisite to having a successful career in architecture.

Architect 92

Architect Education Architecture School Contract 92

EntreArchitect

JULY 18, 2017

Systems are the sound structure of a successful architectural firm. They establish the discipline required for financial success and the freedom to develop a portfolio of highly developed architecture. We then prepare Schematic Designs based on those expectations. Create systems for success.

Small Firm 52

Small Firm Management Firms Project 52

Young Architect

MAY 2, 2022

PPD and PDD both test many of the same topics, however each exam looks at a different phase during design. . PPD is all about everything that happens during the schematic design phase of the project. Topics include: code, building systems, structures, materials, costs and many more technical topics.

Contract 94

Contract Information Management Education 94

Lines on Paper

JUNE 12, 2021

The aim is to expose the student to the practical realities of ‘practice’; to learn about dealing with people - consultants, clients and colleagues; to keep deadlines and work in a structured environment for a regular number of hours a day. When put this way, it doesn't sound very interesting or educational at all.

Education 52

Education Architecture Students Firms 52

Community Architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The project I now remembered had made a lasting impression on me since it was my first assignment when my then prolific boss, Heinz Egenhofer hired me for my first job out of architecture school. It was not only a nightmare to construct this geometry accurately on paper, finding a structural grid to hold it all up was also a challenge.

Project 80

Project Architect Sketching Roofing 80

Community Architect

JUNE 9, 2022

My friend and Morgan architecture professor Cristina Murphy who also does teaching stints at Virginia Tech and the Technische Universiteit in Delf t (Netherlands) has tailored her studios around this question. She wrote this guest contribution describing her approach to teaching equity in architecture school.

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Architecture Students Education Architecture Student 59