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How Do You Design for Informality?

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Image © Emmage/Shutterstock Informal architecture is the dominant mode of urbanization in rapidly growing and industrializing cities worldwide. In Delhi , the city with the largest population in India has half of its residents living in informal settlements.

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Explore portfolio reviews, open houses, and information sessions for prospective graduate and undergraduate students this November

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program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, or a one-year Post Graduate degree, Archinect's School Partners offer a comprehensive list of upcoming information sessions and open houses (both in-person and online) to help with your applications. If you're looking to pursue a Bachelor's degree, Master's, or Ph.D.

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Liminal House by Mcleod Bovell Modern Houses

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The evolving needs of a family became the impetus for how we imagined a house that could embody the state of transition at a conceptual and experiential level. The clients came to us at a pivotal stage in their lives as soon-to-be empty nesters. Drawing from our expe.

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Docks inform design of ERRE Arquitectos' stilted Chilean beach house

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Local studio ERRE Arquitectos has wrapped a seaside house in pine and lifted it on silts in order to optimise views of the coastline in Chile. Located in Matanzas, Chile, the 128-square metre Prat House was completed in 2021 by Raimundo Gutiérrez of ERRE Arquitectos. metre module to optimise the use of the material.

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Traditional cabins inform mountain retreat in the Ukrainian Carpathians

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Lviv studios Sanina Arch Club and Gubar Architects used a "combination of modern and local traditions" for Krasnyk House, a holiday cabin in the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine. Materials and finishes were selected to create a modern interior experience "When you enter the house, you immediately feel comfort and peace.

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Tesla releases cardboard cat house informed by Cybertruck in China

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Tesla has begun selling a flat-pack cat house made of corrugated cardboard , with an angular silhouette that was modelled on the car brand's controversial electric pickup truck, in China. According to the product description on Tesla's Chinese website , the design of the cat house was "informed by the futuristic shape of Cybertruck ".

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Laura Narayansingh creates her own colonial-informed house in Trinidad

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ACLA Architecture director Laura Narayansingh has designed the compact Bush House on the Caribbean island of Trinidad for her family. Narayansingh designed the 100-square-metre, two-bedroom house as a compact home for her family that incorporates elements found in Trinidad and Tobago's colonial architecture.