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From Cubicles to Community: The City Beyond the Office (1of 2)

Community Architect

Each time shape and architecture changed but the city remained. Slate ) "Traditional downtowns are dead or dying in many US cities" ( the Conversatio n) The 'death of downtown' may have hit Middle America. Here's how remote work has not only hurt coastal cities — but places such as St. Yes, the doom loop".

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Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

It aims to include "new and unexpected readings of built work, the analysis of the discipline's discourse and historiography, the study of architectural representation and media, and the consideration of socioeconomic and cultural-political forces on urban transformation." Hey, architectural historians like gift books, too!)

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30 Best Architecture Firms in the Netherlands

Architizer

The Dutch have long been at the vanguard of architectural discourse. Many of the architectural firms on this list are rooted in this city. Contemporary architectural discourse could not be cited without referencing the plethora of Dutch thinkers. How are these architecture firms ranked?

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

The future of architecture is female. That’s what recent A+Awards winners have taught us, with more women than ever leading teams in conceptualizing, designing and delivering some of the world’s best architecture around the globe. Women have been the creative force behind dozens of winning projects in recent seasons, from B.L.U.E.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

Traces of San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, Boston's Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, promoted by a visionary developer, designed by a Harvard Dean of architecture, nearly defeated in a referendum, those are the ingredients that made Baltimore's HarborPlace a model for urban waterfronts around the world nearly half a century ago.

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A conversation with Quang Truong: carbon fiber, zoning, and architecture's slow evolution

Portland Architecture

And that's before he wrote the world's first book about composite materials in architecture, became a Portland State University professor, and founded a software company to visualize complex zoning codes. Returning to Oregon in 2015, he worked for three years at Portland's Lever Architecture before setting out on his own.

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Architecture Articles: Building Design

e-architect

Difference between carbon neutrality and net zero Mackintosh Building Glasgow School of Art RICS and YouGov survey 2022 Next generation of knowledge work: hybrid workplaces Data-Informed Design for the User Experience at Work The fluid, sustainable future of retail Designing for Extra Care: What Can Covid Teach Us? Do We Need Libraries?