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Budget Breakdown: Near Melbourne, Former Bandmates Make a Modest House Sing for $290K

Dwell

Melbourne designer David Noordhoff had already established a rhythm with clients James and Zara McGuffie long before he designed their home. Noordhoff and James had been the drummer and guitarist in a successful indie rock band, Kilns , before Noordhoff went off to architecture school.

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Architecture School in a Box

30X40 Design Workshop

Before I enrolled in architecture school in the late summer of 1991 (has it been 32 years?), As architecture schools greet new students this fall, I thought it would be fun to revisit that list of “must-haves” after having practiced architecture for 30 years. You'll use a lot of this in architecture school.

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Architecture in the Real World … sorta

Life of an Architect

One of the things having a web site like mine affords you is a peek behind the curtain – curtains in just about every nook and cranny of the planet. One of the most common themes of these emails is that architecture school is nothing like working in the real world.

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Memories from the Architectural Studio | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Memories from Studio / Memories from Studio People who didn’t attend architectural school don’t understand juries. I personally looked at it as character building and preparing us for that bad client. I also witnessed a couple of bad clients, too. Building with Structural. oh well, it was drafted well.

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Profile of an Architectural Intern – Part One

Life of an Architect

To my bewilderment, when I arrived, Michael waited a whole ten minutes before assigning me the task of driving out, by myself, to meet a new client at her house and conduct an exhaustive series of measurements from which I would generate as-built drawings in Revit.

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My First Project: The Best Project Ever Designed That Wasn’t

Life of an Architect

When I decided to select “My First Project” as a topic for this month’s ArchiTalks topic, I knew instantly which project I would choose to focus on – not because it’s so good, but because I had all sorts of attachments that I could refer to (which is an important consideration when writing an architectural blog).

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Architecture and The Art of Getting it Wrong | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Fast forward a few years – the college process is now complete and architectural schools are churning out extremely creative graduates, ready to take on the design world … except few graduates will actually get to work on “BIG IDEA” design projects. maybe there is, maybe the client wants or needs that!

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