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LCC Health Professions Building

SW Oregon Architect

Lane County voters passed a general obligation bond in May 2020 to fund the project, as well as assortment of campus-wide improvements addressing classroom needs, safety and accessibility deficiencies, workforce retraining, and Career Technical Education.

Building 208
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2022 Projects in the Pipeline

SW Oregon Architect

LCC is using the bond to address safety, security, and accessibility for all students on its campuses, workforce retraining and career technical education investments, and classroom and learning space updates to meet the needs of current and future students.

Project 219
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ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION (The Internship)

Lines on Paper

In recent years this part of a student’s education takes place at the end of 2 nd Year (3 months), and also at the end of 3 rd Year (3 months). When put this way, it doesn't sound very interesting or educational at all. Other than the basic office rules/regulations, ask what you will be expected to do on a daily/weekly basis.

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Don’t Let the Internet Design Your Project

Life of an Architect

I wrote a post years ago titled “ Schematic Design – This Isn’t Architecture ” and while I think you should go read it (because it’s amazing) I will save some of you the time and summarise. Don’t lie, some of you were and you let me know it.

Sketching 108
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Designing for Others

Life of an Architect

It could be submitted as evidence of design intent in a court of law if you drew one schematic but delivered a different more completed design later.” ” While none of these comments changed my mind to my assertion that schematic design isn’t an end to a means, but part of the journey.

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Escalation: Predicting project costs in a volatile market

BD+C

In addition to commercial cost indexes, we can talk with local contractors and use our own historical cost data from previous projects, to better understand how the market has been behaving and to make an educated guess as to what escalation percentage will be needed to include for the future. How can we control costs in a volatile market?

Project 85
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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

Historically, it does not pay very well, the education is long and there is an incredible amount of legal responsibility involved with becoming an architect. . Teaches you to solve problems like no other education. The Educational Requirements. It’s not an easy profession, an architecture career is a lot of work. 5-7 years).