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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

Architecture school is often about examining information and using that information to creatively find solutions to problems. . Architecture school teaches you to think differently, rewires your brain and most architecture students graduate being a very different person from when they started. Hospital design.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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Left: Student Residence in Saclay_momentum, Saclay, France, 2020 A+Awards Popular Winner in the Small Multi-Unit Housing category; Right: Anna Maria Bordas via Bordas+Peiro. 2020 A+Award winner Anna Maria Bordas is an architect from ENSAVT and engineer of Ponts et Chaussées engineering school. Anna Maria Bordas.

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How to Teach Equity in Architecture?

Community Architect

Young was no architect but a HCU trained sociologist and a MIT trained electrical engineer. 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. Young, Jr., Figure 18).

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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. There were no " ed-specs " as is common in today's school design.

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