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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

Life of an Architect

One upside of working many jobs is that you get to experience all sorts of different project types, firm sizes, and management techniques. The soil in my area of practice tends to be expansive because it contains a healthy dose of clay, which expands and contracts as moisture enters the equation. Why the change of heart?

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Resonate | Concert Hall

ArchiDiaries

There are about 3800 ghost towns in America due to westward expansion, mining and industrialization between 1880-1940 and about 50 well-planned abandoned ghost towns in China, followed by other countries with abandoned historic towns. All students and professionals can participate in the competitions. to express the design fully.

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Pier and Beam Foundations - KHouse Progress | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

The soil in my area of practice tends to be expansive because it contains a healthy dose of clay, which expands and contracts as moisture enters the equation. Remove water due to hot and dry conditions, and the soil contracts. As a student, we do not see things such as this! All this soil movement adds up to cracks in the house.

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Building Science, Climate Change and The Pretty Good House (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

I think we all have our things and things we deal with in that happens to be mine. It wasn’t going to pay back my student loans. He was starting a new company to manufacture those in a factory setting, really the first of its kind in North America based on European production techniques. I’m a lifelong stutterer.

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Incremental Progress is the Key to Long-Term Success (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

She’s taught design studios, construction detailing and theory courses at the Boston Architectural College, The Northeastern University and Wentworth Institute of Technology, and was the director of Practice Instruction and Community Engagement Projects at the Boston Architectural College, where she directed nearly 80 student led projects.