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On Becoming a Professional: Letter to an Architecture Student

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Dear Student, I suspect you’ve already encountered most of the conventional advice—the familiar platitudes repeated endlessly in classrooms, critiques , and career talks. Develop your craft. Stay disciplined.

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Five projects take home top honors as part of CTBUH's 2024 Mass Timber Student Design Competition

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The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has just named five winners for the 2024 Mass Timber Student Design Competition. This year's competition focused mainly on the use of mass timber in multi-story buildings through the lens of affordable housing that emphasizes rapid development.

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Morris Adjmi's Anchor House helps new Berkeley students feel at home

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Morris Adjmi Architects ' new Helen Diller Anchor House student housing project has debuted on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. Photo by J.

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Mithun debuts pass house student apartment design at Princeton

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Mithun has completed work on one of the largest passive house-certified student dormitory designs in the U.S. Thereafter four interconnected courtyards form around the development defined by their own “purpose and identity.” for Princeton University. ” The program includes a community center with a mass timber roof.

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University at Buffalo students are constructing tiny homes to fight homelessness

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Students from the University at Buffalo have embarked on the construction of three tiny homes to help combat homelessness. Image courtesy of University at Buffalo The process began with students designing prototypes for tiny houses, which were developed into permit-ready construction documents for three homes in Syracuse, New York.

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Amsterdam Academy of Architecture presents seven student architecture projects

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Dezeen School Shows: a thesis project proposing energy conservation methods for The Netherlands is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. Also included is a project exploring wind patterns to influence infrastructures , and another exploring ways to improve seawater conservation.

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A group of UCSB students pitches a thorough alternative to Munger Hall

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In an amazing rebuke of their university’s purblind pursuit of the Munger Hall megadormitory project last week, students at the University of California, Santa Barbara staged a public forum in order to showcase research-based alternatives to the development and long-term strategic plan. Miranda in the LA Times.

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