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Don’t Let the Internet Design Your Project

Life of an Architect

I wrote a post years ago titled “ Schematic Design – This Isn’t Architecture ” and while I think you should go read it (because it’s amazing) I will save some of you the time and summarise. Don’t lie, some of you were and you let me know it.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

While this represents progress, both gender and racial inequality and discrimination remains widespread in the architecture industry , from student bodies and educational institutions right through to professional organizations and the workplace as a whole. Born and educated in Tokyo, Yoko Fujii is a graduate of Japan Women’s University.

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Weaving international work into your architecture career

EntreArchitect

I built my network by starting a blog where I interviewed architects around Berlin and offered to publish their work. Use your education to your advantage. An American education is well-respected and valued around the world; it opens doors in most countries I’ve lived and worked in, especially in Asia.

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The Ultimate List of ARE 5.0 Study Materials: Part 1

Young Architect

In this blog post, we’ll take a broad look at the study materials available for ALL the ARE 5.0 This blog post will focus on study materials about each exam. To make things easier, a table of contents is provided below to help you navigate this blog post. These 2 terms are referred to throughout this entire blog post series.

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Taking A Different Path [11]

A Better Built Environment

After a few months job searching, I joined a mid-sized firm, Opsis Architecture, that focused on educational and institutional projects. I participated in the design of some of projects while my partners and our employees executed most of the architecture work beyond schematic design. I’m now at a crossroads.

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A Day in the Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

This morning I was talking with Chef Chamberlain about just those sorts of things – not only should it be educational, it should make me a better designer. This was the project that I used when talking about sketching during schematic design. This was the 4th post in a series of posts called “ArchiTalks”.

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How to Teach Equity in Architecture?

Community Architect

Introduction to the guest blog When in 1968 the then President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Robert Durham, FAIA, extended an invitation to the executive director of the National Urban League, Whitney M. Fig 18: Resident of the the Red Shed Village in Baltimore: working and designing with and for the unhoused.