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Your Projects from Architecture School are Silly

Life of an Architect

Today is a first – I am doing something that I told myself that I would never do … show you one of my projects from architecture school. So if you get a chance to design a house while you are in school, designing one that is practical and livable probably isn’t on your professor’s mind.

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

Dwell

Noordhoff and James had been the drummer and guitarist in a successful indie rock band, Kilns , before Noordhoff went off to architecture school. Jade Cantwell Zara and James had been living in Melbourne for over a decade, and they were looking to move outside the city when they discovered the parcel in the former mining town.

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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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CJ Hendry transforms a defunct East London church into a giant ‘snow globe’

The Spaces

After initially exploring venue options stateside, Hendry was tipped off about the Bethnal Green church by a friend from her architecture school days. Epilogue has been three years in the making, paused temporarily by the pandemic and located in the UK by serendipity. ” It was really natural; one thing led to another.’

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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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A Love Letter to "Home: A Short History of an Idea," the Book That Defined My Idea of Comfort

Dwell

In fact, many of the things Rybczynski learned in architecture school and beyond seemed to directly contradict the concept. Without even thinking about it, Rybczynski’s intellectual pursuit of comfort has mirrored mine in my adult life—or, mine his. Life is difficult enough as is, so why should my furniture be, too?

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Architectural Pathfinders: Breaking the Mold with Architect Anthony Falgiano

Young Architect

Despite not attending a traditional architecture school, Anthony was able to chart a different course. A career detour led Anthony to spend 15 years in the mining industry, yet his architectural dreams never waned. Once he secured his architect's license, he returned to the traditional architecture field.