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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

By intensely focusing on design, construction and history, then looking at the world through that lens, it forces you to reconsider how we think, live and interact with our environments. . Architecture school is often about examining information and using that information to creatively find solutions to problems. .

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

We’ve got huge constraints, if you look at the pressure on the environment, and I believe we are the custodians of [that]. Architecture Studio. Urban-oriented design is the thread that unites their portfolio of mainly commercial commissions. Their bold designs are not contained by any formula.

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How to Teach Equity in Architecture?

Community Architect

Whitney Young, 1968) It is clear that a historically black university (HBCU) such as Morgan State University in Baltimore is trying hard to attract black architecture students and make students aware what role architects have played in segregation and, conversely what role they can play in creating more equity. Figure 18).