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Architecture is Awesome: #32 Every Building is a Prototype

SW Oregon Architect

The series is my meditation on the awesome reasons why I was and continue to be attracted to the art of architecture. While iterative prototyping is a vital tool for design and innovation in many industries, the use of prototypes is severely limited in the production of architecture. Next Architecture is Awesome: #33 Happy Clients

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The A-Frame Is More Than Just a Cabin—It’s a Full-Fledged Cultural Obsession

Dwell

architectural scene in the mid-20th century, their rise in popularity among the American middle class coinciding with the postwar economic boom, when more families had the ability to invest in vacation homes. Courtesy of Boutique Homes A-frame cabins burst onto the U.S. Toys, too, have been getting the A-frame treatment for decades.

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Reader’s Choice: Top 10 Architecture Projects On Architizer in January 2022

Architizer

From conceptual designs to projects under construction to completed buildings, we are proud to serve as a platform for showcasing global architectural talent and the brilliance of visualizers, engineers, manufacturers, and photographers who are crucial members of the industry. John’s Park. Ballman Khapalova | Concept. DN Apartment.

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Frieze London is 20: what to see at the Art Fair and beyond on its milestone edition

The Spaces

’ The London of 2003 was languishing in a post-YBA, pre-Post-Internet era, Banksy was still carefreely tagging on its streets; Grayson Perry had accepted the Turner Prize, and Olafur Eliasson was enveloping Tate Modern’s (shiny new) Turbine Hall with The Weather Project. Artwork © Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation.

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Sketching the Housing Crisis

Landscape Architecture Magazine

One notable exception is Breath on the Mirror: Seattle’s Skid Road Community, a book by Laurie Olin, FASLA, that is a powerful anthropological depiction of Seattle’s Pioneer Square in the early 1970s. Many landscape architecture programs have field sketching courses and use field drawing to record their study abroad experiences.

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The Age Of The Mega-Eco Project

Landscape Architecture Magazine

We have documented nearly 250 of these mega-eco projects currently under construction and believe there is a big opportunity for the profession of landscape architecture to participate in them and better fulfill its mandate to steward the land. And Algeria is rebuilding its Green Dam mega-eco project from the 1970s.

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All About Window Materials

Santa Cruz Architect

Vinyl-frame windows first appeared in the 1970s when small fabricators produced custom replacement options in sizes not offered by manufacturers of stock wood windows. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, the program tags the most energy-efficient windows. Developed by the U.S.

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