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Influences: Louis I. Kahn

SW Oregon Architect

The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA (photo by Codera23, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) An earlier blog entry of mine, “ Genealogy of Influence ,” promised a series of posts about the architects and theorists who influenced my architectural world view. Cret instilled in his students a reverence for Beaux-Arts principles.

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Coming Fast: A Driver of Industry Change

SW Oregon Architect

One of these is by Bill Allen , CEO and president of EvolveLAB LLC on the Autodesk University website. The second is a two-part series by blogger Graham McKay on his Misfits’ Architecture platform (with input from Mohammad Saad Ahmad ) that questions whether BIM is driving the industry, or the industry is driving BIM.

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family emergency had me put this blog on hiatus. The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access by David Gissen, published by University of Minnesota Press.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

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. The future of architecture is female. Women have been the creative force behind dozens of winning projects in recent seasons, from B.L.U.E.

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The Seven Sins of Architecture Branding & Marketing

Archmark

Do you feel that your clients don’t understand your role in the design process? That they fail to see all the complexity of all the work that goes into a design? For others, they may see hiring an architect as a "necessary evil," usually because they don't understand your role in the design process. Keep reading to learn more.

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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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Hatchet Bedrooms | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Design / Hatchet Bedrooms Hatchet Bedrooms Bob Borson — September 9, 2013 — 77 Comments “ Hatchet Bedroom ” Have you heard this phrase before? It has to do with bedroom design, specifically where the bed is placed in the bedroom. It’s disturbing and most people unknowingly try to avoid it.

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