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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. Sustainability.

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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).

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Right: Public Farm 1, a 2008 installation on the grounds of Long Island City’s MoMA PS1 by Amale Andraos’s firm, WORKac; the museum described the installation as “a living structure made from inexpensive and sustainable materials recyclable after its use at PS1”; images via MoMA PS1 and Archinect. Amale Andraos. Tatiana Bilbao.