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Portland State architecture students create a demountable stage structure for Pickathon Festival

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This year's stage joins previous student designs that were made from repurposed apple bins (2022), steam-bent dimensional lumber (2016, 2018, and 2023), cardboard tubes (2015), shipping pallets (2014), and wooden trusses , which were later reused to make sleeping pods for the Clackamas County Veterans Village outside Portland in 2017.

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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

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While 2014 isn’t technically over yet, it isn’t going to stop me [ cause I do what I want] from looking back at all the articles I wrote over the year to see which ones represented the very best that 2014 and I had to offer. February 10, 2014 The last several years have been hard on the architectural profession.

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Studio Bark builds demountable Nest House with architecture students

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The students helped assemble the house on site Founded in 2014, Studio Bark is a London architecture studio that specialises in sustainable building design. Other recently completed projects by the studio include an off-grid home in Suffolk and a "fully biodegradable and recyclable" cork shed.

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

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Home / Life in General / Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Bob Borson — October 24, 2013 — 38 Comments 23 years ago, as a fourth year architecture student, I spent the Fall semester traveling around Western Europe soaking in all the architectural wonders I could find.

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My Plans for Entrepreneur Architect in 2014

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Each week I introduced one of 12 critical topics fundamental for a successful architecture firm. As we prepare for 2014, I invite you to review these most important posts and confirm that you are prepared for success this coming year. The Plan for 2014. What’s on the horizon for 2014? So, what’s next?

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The Under-the-Radar Craftsman Behind a Very Iconic Masterpiece

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And then, in 2014, after the original owners, the artists Bev and Jay Doolittle, sold the property, Vugrin clashed with the buyers and was set adrift, his life’s work brought to a summary end. Never has Kellogg’s dictum "If it is not a love affair with Mother Earth, it is not Architecture" seemed so resonant.)

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Seeking $5.8M, This Topsy-Turvy Venice Beach Home Will Make Your Head Spin

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Stewart Burns acquired the property in 2014 for $2,300,000. Owning this house is a bit like being a celebrity in very weird, eclectic circles," he said in a recent interview, noting how architecture students would regularly visit to study the home's sculptural construction.

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