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How Breathable Should Facades Be? Exploring Permeability and Impermeability in Building Envelopes

ArchDaily

Image © French + Tye The main role of architecture is to create structures that protect us from the environment and create spaces that are safe and comfortable for all types of needs and activities. Building technologies of the past rarely managed, however, to create a complete separation between us and the outside world. Read more »

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Clay or Concrete, Solid or Hollow: Different Types of Bricks and Their Uses

ArchDaily

Bricks are perhaps the most elementary of building materials and can be used to design modular, optimized, and most importantly, versatile buildings. This article explores the most popular types of bricks according to their use in construction. Read more »

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Architecture is Awesome #25: Vernacular Architecture

SW Oregon Architect

Vernacular architecture is a category of building characterized by high adaptation to local needs and traditions. Vernacular architecture is a category of building characterized by high adaptation to local needs and traditions. Most of the world’s buildings are ordinary and vernacular, and not designed by architects.

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The Dezeen guide to mass timber in architecture

Deezen

Mass timber is the name given to the various different types of engineered wood that can be used as structural building materials. Mass timber can also allow quicker, cleaner assembly on site as well as being lighter than traditional construction materials. CLT is usually made from larch, spruce or pine.

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Editor’s Guide: 6 Ways To Get Your Project Featured on Architizer

Architizer

Each week, our brilliant team of writers, editors and architecture curators scroll through our directory, searching for inspiration for articles and selecting user-uploaded projects to be featured across our social media channels and in our Journal feature articles. Tips on how to start uploading can be found here.

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What if?

SW Oregon Architect

Despite their focus upon much larger cities (among them New York, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle) these articles offered considerable food for thought here in Eugene. One of the articles , by architecture critic Aaron Betsky for ARCHITECTURE magazine, questions whether empty downtowns are here to stay.

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Matthew Lloyd Architects' Bourne Estate was designed for "extreme longevity"

Deezen

The resulting consistent appearance and layout among the different housing types was intended to promote cohesion between the socially rented and private leasehold flats. It's very hard to build in that kind of context," studio founder Matthew Lloyd told Dezeen. "It

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