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Get Lectured: Carnegie Mellon University, Fall '23

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Archinect's Get Lectured offers an overview of different events and lectures taking place at architecture schools each semester. Today, our series continues with a look at what’s happening this Fall at Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture in Pittsburgh. The semester’s theme is ‘Revolutions.’

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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

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Home / Career / Surviving Architecture School Surviving Architecture School Bob Borson — December 16, 2013 — 49 Comments Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific. What happens when you are actually still in school? The person with the most skills typically wins.

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007: A Survivor’s Guide to Architecture School

Life of an Architect

Fall is just around the corner and that means it’s time for students around the country to return to their desk’s at architecture school. While it wasn’t mandatory to do your work up on school property, back in my time, this was true for 99.99% of the people in architecture school.

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Sixteen Japanese architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin

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It often felt more like the continuation of design studios at architecture school rather than the office environment one often encounters when starting practice at a firm." "Instead what I got was an ever-surprising, and often transitional-feeling set of adapted spaces that defied truisms of the basic needs of an office." "It

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"Architects are too often complicit in gentrification and social cleansing"

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Read: "Awarding the Pritzker to a team synonymous with refurbs marks an important shift in architectural values" Their next big impact though came with a very different kind of building, a social housing slab on the edges of Paris.

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Sketch Paper | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Profiler I started toward an architecture degree in nineteeneightysomething at USC… I took a hiatus for the Gulf War… When I went back to architecture school in the late nineties… I showed up at a preliminary presentation with an armful of “trace” and realized how much things changed in only five years.

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Architectural Delineation Competition - KRob 2013 | Life of an.

Life of an Architect

It was a big inspiration to me during architecture school. link] This has some really rich student work – drawings and models. link] Bob Borson I have seen it before – didn’t remember the name of it since I haven’t seen it since my early days in college.