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Free Housing for Educators Benefits Teachers as Well as Families

Dwell

A new multifamily building in New Haven by students at Yale’s architecture school provides relief for an underpaid workforce—and their community. The initiative’s success kicked off a masterplan to provide free housing to all its educators on a campus. A housing experiment is unfolding in New Haven.

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"The Indian architecture education system seems to be fundamentally broken" says commenter

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The Indian architect and Wallmakers founder defended his position on unpaid internships , which he argues have an important educational benefit, following criticism on Instagram. Jacopo was far from the only commenter to argue that architectural education needs reform. Apparently, they need to complete an internship to graduate.

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Inside the mind of an architecture student

Architecture Chat

Five years of a learning experience The mind of an architecture student is indeed a cauldron filled with fretting emotions, art, thought-provoking ideas, stories, and myriad experiences. Five years spent in an architecture school are nothing less than a roller-coaster that persuades you to find hidden values and varying purposes.

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Eight student architecture projects focus on the food industry

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Student: Donwon Choi School: SCI-Arc Course: Graduate Thesis View the full school show › Smithfield Food Skills Market by Monika Gutauskaite Monika Gutausaite, an architecture student at Oxford Brookes University, proposed a market that aims to grow and preserve fresh produce in urban environments.

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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

Invoicing clients, . Managing their clients and employees. It’s not an easy profession, an architecture career is a lot of work. Historically, it does not pay very well, the education is long and there is an incredible amount of legal responsibility involved with becoming an architect. . Architecture School.

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LinkedIn Leaders: 6 Influential “Architect Whisperers” Join the A+Awards Jury

Architizer

Evelyn Lee, FAIA, is the first-ever Global Head of Workplace Strategy and Innovation at Slack Technologies , Founder of the Practice of Architecture , and Co-Host of the Podcast, Practice Disrupted. This program is an intercollegiate educational experience in which students learn a community-centered approach to architecture.

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"I'm embarrassed for my profession" says commenter

Deezen

In this week's comments update , readers are debating the hours architecture students work and discussing other top stories. News of two SCI-Arc faculty members being put on administrative leave for suggesting that architecture students should work long hours for low pay has sparked conversation amongst readers.