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Letters of an Architect: Lessons from my Best Projects

Community Architect

As a step towards the schematic design refinements, my boss had prepared 6' long pencil-drawn and marker-colored large-scale wall sections on narrow sketch paper strips that showed how everything should fit together. Such sketches are what I recommend my students to prepare if they want to test if they really understand their own design.

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The 50 Best Architecture Books

The Architect's Guide

Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design The debate surrounding hand drawing versus computer-generated imagery has become a hot topic. Sketching, and the careful observation that it entails, is essential for the successful development of the next generation of designers. Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design.

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Arquine Competition MEXTÓPOLI 2022 Pavilion

e-architect

Architect, researcher and editor, PhD in architecture. Co-founder of MAIO, an architecture firm that works on flexible systems where notions such as variation, ephemeral or ad hoc, allow theoretical positions to materialize. The invitation is open to architects and architecture students all over the world. Anna Puigjaner.

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Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

and "foundation" (piles, spread, caissons). Even though I was fortunate enough to visit La Borda with the architects last year, the book's thorough documentation through photographs, drawings, and lengthy commentary from the architects means I learned something new about it — and the other commendable projects in the book.

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because that's what architects do for fun | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

It is extremely complicated and we are using Rhino and Grasshopper (fancy modeling software) to help generate and document the design – I’ll show it on the site here when I have a bit more information to present. The stuff the architecture students are learning in college is whacky. Amazing piece of software.

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Yes, There Was Architecture in 2020! A Review

Community Architect

Business Insider ) Frank Lloyd Wright (Center with hat) holding Court at Taliesin (Photo Wright Foundation) The School of Architecture at Taliesin Closing After 88 Years The school's governing board rendered the decision after failing to reach an agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to keep the school open.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. Left: ARE Sketches Volume I; right: Lora Teagarden. Céline Semaan. Lora Teagarden.