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The Commercial Design Process: How it Works in Cape Town

DesignScape Architects

Architect students typically spend between 5 and 7 years studying, and that’s even before they complete the necessary experience and further exams to obtain their licence. Architects are key figures in any design project. All the logistics must be figured out before they can move on to design concepts and proposals.

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Building Bad

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Eventually we had to take into account ramps, wheelchair turning radiuses, and other aspects of ADA in our designs, but for the most part accessibility was limited to knowing parts of the code and how it could be integrated into the concepts that were the drivers of our designs. for architectural expression.

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Back to the Garden

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Gerry, who did not respond to requests to be interviewed for this article, set up a foundation to create Bethel Woods and has been intimately involved at every turn, down to the selection and placement of plants (hence all the blue spruce). “He Today, rows of trees and a building devoted to grounds maintenance impede historic views.

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30 Best Architecture Firms in Greece

Architizer

The foundation of Western architecture cannot be told without citing the architectural legacy of Greece. This vocabulary has influenced countless architects of later periods, from Vitruvius to today’s contemporary designers. A student architectural award gave him the opportunity to travel in Osaka Japan.

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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. Find out more about the jury here. Anna Maria Bordas.

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How to Teach Equity in Architecture?

Community Architect

(Whitney Young, 1968) It is clear that a historically black university (HBCU) such as Morgan State University in Baltimore is trying hard to attract black architecture students and make students aware what role architects have played in segregation and, conversely what role they can play in creating more equity.

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Letters of an Architect: Lessons from my Best Projects

Community Architect

Front of the school facing Bismarck Strasse (School website) The architectural project with all these features came to my mind when I was wondering which of the projects I have under my belt as an architect could still resonate with the students that I, at times, try to teach one thing or another. Let me explain why.

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