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What is Architecture?

Life of an Architect

What is architecture? How do we define architecture as a profession, as a practice, as a concept? I’ve been talking a lot about this lately with colleagues on this topic, so I wanted to attempt a definition of architecture, in my opinion. The post What is Architecture?

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Architecture and Math

Life of an Architect

Evan Troxel, Architect The architecture school I went to required Trigonometry to get my degree. I took it in high school and loved it; it was pretty easy for me as I always did very well in all of my math classes. And they are mostly simple equations, but it definitely helps if you can do them in your head and on the fly. (and

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Deconstructivist architecture "challenges the very values of harmony, unity and stability"

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Instead, Derrida argued, meaning emerged dynamically in relationships between adjacent signifiers and he put forward new concepts, such as différance, which evaded binary systems. Chief among these, for Derrida, was the primacy of speech over writing, and ultimately of signified over signifier.

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

Life of an Architect

The cases I designed were very basic in concept – recessed open-faced cabinets – but there were large swinging glass doors that either completely covered the case or swung completely out-of-the-way of the case so that you could access the entire line of products.

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The legacy of deconstructivism "makes me want to retreat to the back of the room" says Bernard Tschumi

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He cites Norman Foster's recent proposal for a skyscraper in New York and "the architect from Denmark" as people who built on the form-making concepts developed by deconstructivism. But from that day, it's what was being built by the big corporation that was influenced by what was being done in the schools of architecture?

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Manchester School of Architecture spotlights nine architecture and humanities student projects

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By defining a project from a personal position and placing it within a political context, projects often result in the re-definition of systems – the project subject this year was to challenge the dominant theme of a socio-political 'factory'. "As

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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. Always look for the positive architectrunnerguy Amazingly during my whole 5 years of architectural school (Va. Building with Structural. oh well, it was drafted well.

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