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Architects and designers across Europe rally to help Ukrainian refugees find work

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Institutions, studios and others continent-wide are launching initiatives to pair Ukrainian architects and architectural students with offers of work amid complex government refugee settlement schemes. "We Ukrainian architect Dasha fled to Sweden and has been helped to find work in an engineering firm's architectural team.

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

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Home / Life in General / Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Bob Borson — October 24, 2013 — 38 Comments 23 years ago, as a fourth year architecture student, I spent the Fall semester traveling around Western Europe soaking in all the architectural wonders I could find.

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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

fine tuning that design, creating construction drawings, specifications, details, getting cost estimates, solving code issues, obtaining building permits, supporting the contractor with information during construction, responding to unforeseeable conditions, working with and coordinating furniture, IT, and moving consultants. .

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Mentoring the Young Architect Will Enrich and Strengthen Our Profession

EntreArchitect

For me personally, juggling architecture school and getting through the Architect Registration Exam, while making a living has been my biggest hurdle in becoming an architect. During college I worked for a firm for only 6 months, before I threw up my hands and quit. In his world, I was just a cheap architecture student day laborer.

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Be Better

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I had many interesting conversations with architecture students while I was in Chicago. Others wanted to know about how to start their own firms. These students are working to become residential architects and in many states, working with a licensed architect is not a requirement. Architecture is a business.

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Mentoring is an Integral Part of the Profession

EntreArchitect

For me personally, juggling architecture school and getting through the Architect Registration Exam, while making a living has been my biggest hurdle in becoming an architect. During college I worked for a firm for only 6 months, before I threw up my hands and quit. In his world, I was just a cheap architecture student day laborer.

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"Those in power want to hold on to their one way of designing" says Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows

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Fellows argues that people of colour and women architects are discouraged from designing Fellows believes this discouragement is also present in architecture education, as multiple minority-ethnic architecture students came forward to say they were advised against incorporating parts of their heritage in their projects.

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