Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2017

This was the original concept sketch that I created for a pair benches – you can see from the date on that sketch that I drew this in August of 2015. For the most part, the final executed version matches my original concept sketch pretty closely. A closeup look at the bench.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

By Stephen Zacks An old industrial site in 2020, before the construction of Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok. Kongjian Yu, FASLA, sketches the concept for Chinatown Park in Boston in 2003. Completed in 2015, Sanya Mangrove Park weaves public uses with performative landscape engineering.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Architectural concept sketches, construction details, construction photos … these are the sorts of posts that are both my most favorite, and least favorite, to put together. The drawing above was my original concept sketch from June 2015 – pretty simple and direct … and a little unrealistic.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

During our walks through the site we found a few archeological pre- Columbian fragments made out of lava rock and clay. Through the design process, our concern was the site conditions.
The Zurcher Arquitectos © Andrés García Lachner From the architect. With that in mind, we created the architectural concept for the project.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 23, 2017

I should confess that I didn’t realize when I started writing this blog 7 years ago that I would spend more time answering emails than actually writing articles for the site. For more thoughts read You’ve Got Mail – September 2015] 2.) Sketching – various] Bonus 11.) Uhhhh … do I have any tips?

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Bustler

JULY 19, 2022

For this, we will visit those sites of odd more-than-human collaborations and explore site-specific ways of working through sketching, mapping, and storytelling. The materials for the workshop will be provided by the organizers, yet the students will be asked to bring some basic sketching materials.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Founded in 2015, the practice manifests architecture across diverse scales of design with superlative craft, detail and materiality. In our design process, we try to benefit from all the positive capacities of the site and the project and convert it to a simple and clear solution.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

As a bonus, even non-architects would like a book like this because it explains the vocabulary that architects use on a daily basis with wonderful sketches that clearly show the subject. I personally feel that the really nice ones can be a little intimidating to sketch in – they seem a little precious to me.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 12, 2015

This past weekend was the culmination of several months of coordination, design and construction – The Life of an Architect 2015 Playhouse ‘Outdoor Movie Theater’ was delivered and is now on display. This is about as good an example of pride on the job site that you will find. These days, I leave it alone.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The work of the office is idea driven with an aim to find unexpected solutions that enhance the potential of a site and add value to real estate. Förstberg Ling © Förstberg Ling Förstberg Ling is an office for architecture and design established in 2015 and based in Malmö, Sweden.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

APRIL 13, 2023

Just a few months after 12-year-old Tamir Rice was brutally shot and killed by Cleveland police officers, the community came together to build a butterfly garden on the site of his murder. Between 2015 and 2020, the garden served as a quiet memorial. Artists created stencils used to decorate the bollards with “Young Black King Tamir.”

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Architizer

JANUARY 3, 2024

It is crucial to work on the project from the preliminary sketch to the smallest details, as this is the only way to create a whole experience rather than merely architecture as scenery. is a design collective established by Vid Zabel and Barbara Zunkovic in 2015. presledek. © presledek. presledek. © presledek.

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ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 18, 2022

Statistics show from 2015-107 wellness tourism has grown 6.5 Site Area: 5549 Sq.m. These mountains are famous among adventure seekers, the site selected is at the foot of one of the mountains in the Altai mountain range. CAD file of the Site plan. Fig: 2 – Solitude in the mountains (Credits- Daniel Mingook). 3D views x 4.

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Habitus Living

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

At the start of any project there is a lot of familiarising and listening to do; detailed client briefing, site analysis, ascertaining the planning constraints. There’s just something about sketching or generally moving about that has a way of surfacing a key insight that may prove pivotal. How does design play a role in your life?

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I met Maura Rockcastle, ASLA, and John Rasmussen at the Quarry Garden site early one Saturday morning in June. She had returned to her native Minneapolis in 2015 to found the studio after a prolific career in New York City. A Study in Design Process. Rockcastle is a principal and cofounder, with Ross Altheimer, ASLA, of TEN x TEN.

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Hotel Designs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Annenberg Performing Arts Centre in Wellington College in Berkshire, and Boksto 6 master plan a UNESCO heritage site in Vilnius, Lithuania. His portfolio includes luxury residential projects like Chiltern Place in Marylebone and Nova Victoria, which revitalised a key site near Victoria Station.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 3, 2016

I typically hate writing the first post of a new year, it feels a little like that first sketch in the schematic design process – you know it isn’t going to be any good but you have to start somewhere; you’re just feeling things out a bit wondering where you want to take things. to copyright them. is a deal breaker).

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ArchiDiaries

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal in 2015 (Credits-Chris McGrath). The site is located in a way to allow people to gather during the crisis and provide immediate emergency resources. CAD file of the Site plan. Minimum requisite submission are sheets/boards + Cover image containing: Site plan, plan. Fig: 2 – 7.8

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e-architect

APRIL 19, 2023

The new developments all will be operated by Qatar Museums which is responsible for preserving and enlarging Qatar’s cultural endowment by overseeing the country’s growing network of museums, heritage sites, festivals, public art program, and more. They include: Museum of Islamic Art, architect: I.

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Architizer

JUNE 16, 2023

These two relics are among South Korea’s 15 World Heritages Sites. For that reason, we discuss and converse as much as sketching and this approach allows us for more influential operations and results. This ‘material_metry’ refers to the reinterpretation of a material’s meaning within the context of a site.

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Community Architect Daily

JULY 8, 2021

Parking structures and lots accentuate this effect, creating a concrete moat that limits accessibility from beyond the site, except by automobile, and separates the mall from community life. In the 1950s, this was the brave new world of shopping; in the 2000s, it is an anachronism, an artifact of a world that no longer exists. (

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

Built on a site that is just 7×14 meters in Mexico City, the clay tower showcases Carillo’s dynamic handling of shadow, which the judges for the Women in Architecture Award mentioned as a key reason for her 2017 award. Iturbide Studio is the kind of project architects dream about. Sharon Davis. AIA Young Architects award Winner 2018.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 26, 2018

Cavin and Claire have continued to push the envelope in designing for Pioneer Spirit, which won then the 2015 National American Institute of Architects contest the that named them the future of architecture. Sometimes it’s difficult to sort of say what you want, so a quick sketch is often a very easy way to do that. Definitely.

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Deezen

JULY 5, 2024

On display are a plethora of Jeffrey's initial works and influences informed by style icons like Andy Warhol and Vivienne Westwood , documenting his early development as a student at Central Saint Martins before graduating and launching his label in 2015. The photography is by David Parry , courtesy of Somerset House.

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e-architect

MAY 4, 2023

Practitioners in the fields of art, architecture, music, film, philosophy and technology will be commissioned to create new, site-specific work in response to Ghotmeh’s structure. The 22nd Serpentine Pavilion marks the ninth year of support from Pavilion Sponsors Goldman Sachs.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Boasting as many pages as An Atlas of Es Devlin is Copper Hewitt's guide to its own collection, made with designer Irma Boom when the institution completed a major overhaul of its Upper East Side home (the former Andrew Carnegie mansion) in late 2014/early 2015. Their voices permeate The Bronx Nobody Knows , just as in the other guides.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 16, 2017

I like to travel with my wife when our schedules allow, design and build furniture, and of course, sketch different designs of buildings or anything that comes to mind. CornerCraft Designer : Michael Clouse (Rhode Island, USA) Bio : I studied journalism and art in undergrad before returning to school to complete an M.Arch from RISD in 2015.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MAY 30, 2022

Like The Battle for Home , Building for Hope 's text is accompanied by the architect's own sketches, this time depicting places well beyond her native Syria. The name "Dragon Rock" refers to the house and studio he developed with architect David Leavitt (1918–2013), as well as the site's quarry landscape.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 16, 2023

The second, more recent example is Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site from 2004, edited by then Record correspondent Suzanne Stephens and featuring a foreword by the magazine's editor-in-chief at the time, Robert A.

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