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Apple highlights Archinect in official rollout of MacOS Big Sur

2020-11-13T19:10:00-05:00

If you're an Apple user, you've probably been prompted to update your operating system to version 11 the latest OS release, dubbed "Big Sur." As a mostly Apple-based team here at Archinect HQ, we were pleasantly surprised to see Archinect highlighted on the welcome screen after the update.

As the world's most valuable company, and arguably one of the businesses that values design most significantly, we're quite chuffed to be in the company that Apple has curated.

The latest operating system introduced a newly updated UI, enhancements to Safari, Messages, Maps, and improved privacy. Check out everything new in Big Sur at this link.

Have you been laid off? Furloughed? Cut back in pay or hours? Tell us in this 2-minute questionnaire

2020-04-09T14:21:00-04:00

As COVID-19 related news floods the media, its effects on world health and the economy have left many feeling shaken. With the influx of information and resources out there, it may be challenging to sift through content that can provide a bit of reassurance and hope.

Here at Archinect, our team has been working to continuously report on the pandemic's impact within the architecture community. From construction updates, interviews with firm leaders, professional practice tips, and employment news, our office values the input from our community.

As we continue to stay informed, we want to hear from you. Stories of pay cuts, layoffs, and furloughs have left people worried. However, we want to provide our community with a platform to share. To provide the best and most accurate form of coverage, we're hoping you can share your experiences with us by participating in our latest Architecture Employment Survey. This enables us to gather and use the latest data from practicing professional...

Antonio Pacheco Joins Archinect as Managing Editor

2019-06-26T13:33:00-04:00

Archinect has hired editor, writer, and designer Antonio Pacheco as its new managing editor.

Antonio is responsible for developing editorial content, covering breaking and professional news, and will oversee the ongoing development of Archinect’s editorial team in accordance with the publication’s evolution of editorial.

Antonio comes to Archinect following a three-year run as West Editor for The Architect’s Newspaper, where he led coverage of regional, national, and international developments in architecture, design, and urbanism from a west coast perspective. During this time, Antonio developed a special focus on preservation issues relating to architectures of the recent past while also documenting the region’s shifting urban configurations and providing critical insight into these trends. Antonio has interviewed many of the leading figures of contemporary architecture, including Denise Scott-Brown, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Jeanne Gang, and others.

Antonio’s writing has been ...

This new incense conjures up the spirits of Frank Lloyd Wright, Carlo Scarpa and the Eameses

2019-02-07T14:47:00-05:00

The Archinect Outpost has never smelled better. We're now carrying YIELD's new Architect Series incense — a delicious way to spruce up the atmosphere of your work or living space! You can purchase them from us online or visit our retail store in the LA Arts District to smell-before-buying.

Locally handcrafted by Florida-based designer and manufacturer YIELD, this series was inspired by some of the YIELD team's favorite 20th-century architects. The collection features three scents that distill distinct elements of nature and place: Entenza, Wright, and Scarpa.

Inspired by the natural surroundings of the Case Study Homes in the Pacific Palisades, Entenza embodies the essence of the California coast with notes of eucalyptus, rosemary, and birch.

Wright pairs light floral rose with warm sandy tones, like the desert landscape of the iconic architect's Arizona home.

Scarpa balances deep notes of palo santo and rich leather, drawing from the architect's bold yet harmonious sanctuary ne...

Creating a mini building at your desk never seemed more fun

2018-12-12T18:58:00-05:00

Now featured in our Downtown LA retail store and online at Archinect Outpost, these miniature building materials will make your other office mates jealous.

The team at Mini Materials have created scaled construction toys that not only look amazing but are functional just like their life size counterparts. A perfect desk accessory or a neat gift for the building fanatic in your life, Mini Materials creates a wonderful take on making construction materials available and accessible for all to enjoy.

1:6 Scale Mini Red Bricks (24pk + Pallet) Image © Mini Materials

Made of actual concrete and brick materials, these miniature building pieces look and feel like the real thing. Available in an assortment of sizes and material types building enthusiasts can purchase cinder blocks, bricks, lumber, even a mini jersey barrier.

The founders of Mini Materials started their venture in 2015 after noticing that "the world was lacking realistic versions of the most common building materials used tod...

Here's your chance to get a super limited-edition copy of MASSX, Neil Denari's highly anticipated new monograph

2018-11-24T11:00:00-05:00

Join us Tuesday, November 27th celebrate MASSX, the latest monograph from Neil M. Denari Architects at Archinect Outpost.

We will be selling 20 copies of MASSX, priced at $162.50 + tax. It is recommended that you arrive before doors open at 6 if you want to get a copy of the book, as they will sell to the first people in line (if you already have a copy of MASSX, please feel free to bring it to the event to get it signed and receive secure access to the conversation).

The conversation will start at 6:30, and doors will close at that time until the conversation ends. Space will be limited, so priority will be given to those who buy a copy of MASSX or bring their own copy.

HL23, by Neil Denari

This formidable monograph of Neil M. Denari Architects can be viewed as a point of departure for examining architecture’s role in the contemporary world. It contains more than 700 pages of material that has evolved over time, the majority of which has never been published, and offers both a rich...

Get to know the publishers represented at Archinect Outpost, Part 3 of 3

2018-06-15T11:00:00-04:00

In anticipation of the launch party of the Archinect Outpost, our new retail initiative in Downtown LA’s Arts District, we present part 3 of the curated collection of small-run, independently published architecture periodicals we will have on display:

Place-Holder

PLACE-HOLDER is a Canadian magazine that attempts to capture the life of architecture and design. It is an active catalogue of design, for contemporary use and future reference, a repository and mediator of ideas that are floating in the collective memories of architects and designers.

Plat Journal

PLAT is an independent architectural journal, supported and edited by students of Rice Architecture, whose purpose is to stimulate relationships between design, production, and theory. Plat operates by interweaving professional and academic work into an open and evolving dialogue which progresses from issue to issue.

POOL

POOL is the student magazine of the Department of Architecture & Urban Design at the University of Californi...

Get to know the publishers represented at Archinect Outpost, Part 2 of 3

2018-06-14T16:00:00-04:00

In anticipation of the launch party of the Archinect Outpost, our new retail initiative in Downtown LA’s Arts District, we present part 2 of the curated collection of small-run, independently published architecture periodicals we will have on display:

Intern Mag

Intern has been providing a contemporary platform for the ongoing debate on internships and those affected by it, to express the current state of the creative industry from a relatively honest and critical perspective. All output is either by or about members of the creative youth, which is enabled by the publication’s open submissions policy and strong ties to creative industries.

LA+

LA+ (Landscape Architecture Plus) explores landscape architecture's interdisciplinary potential, bringing readers a rich collection of work from contemporary thinkers and designers in two lavishly illustrated issues annually. Within its pages are the thoughts of not only designers but also historians, artists, geographers, psychologists, ecolo...

Get to know the publishers represented at Archinect Outpost, Part 1 of 3

2018-06-14T11:00:00-04:00

In anticipation of the launch party of the Archinect Outpost, our new retail initiative in Downtown LA’s Arts District, we present part 1 of the curated collection of small-run, independently published architecture periodicals we will have on display:

Art Papers

ART PAPERS provides an accessible forum for examining, discussing, and documenting the full spectrum of contemporary art and culture, as well as the ways they affect and reflect our lives. They engage online, in print, and through public programming.

Beautifully Banal

Beautifully Banal is a celebration of the beauty that can be found in the ordinary by mixing whimsy and everyday life. It is an exploration of traditional architecture drawing types combined with comic book storytelling, resulting in graphic novel under the guise of architectural discourse.

CLOG

CLOG is an international publication that critically explores one topic at a time from as many perspectives as possible. While online press, blogs, tweets, social media...

Archinect Outpost to open in Downtown Los Angeles, Launch Party June 15th

2018-06-05T12:19:00-04:00

Join Archinect in celebrating the opening of Archinect Outpost and the launch of Ed 2 "Architecture of Disaster" on June 15th, 7-10 PM.

RSVP here to reserve your spot!

Archinect Outpost is an exciting new retail initiative in downtown LA's Arts District, a rapidly transforming creative hub home to SCI-Arc and a number architecture & design practices. Archinect Outpost will launch with a curated collection of small-run, independently published architecture publications including Art Papers, Beautifully Banal, Bracket, CLOG, Concrete Maps, Ed, Flat Out, Fresh Meat Journal, Harvard Design Magazine, Intern Mag, LA+, Log, MASKS, MacGuffin, Migrant Journal, MONU, NESS, PAX, Place-Holder, Plat Journal, POOL, Project Journal, Soiled, and Thresholds Journal.

Archinect Outpost will be located at 900 E 4th St, in the heart of downtown LA's Arts District. Astute locals will notice that it's the same address as the A+D Museum, home to some of the most exciting exhibitions and events in the cit...

Get Issue #1 of Archinect's print publication 'Ed' at these fine retail partners

2018-04-09T13:43:00-04:00

It's been a few months now since we launched Archinect's latest offshoot, Ed, our quarterly print publication. Issue #1 "Architecture of Architecture" features a conversation with MAIO, a feature from Interboro Partners' new book “The Arsenal of Inclusion and Exclusion”, a special iteration of Archinect's Small Studio Snapshots series featuring Brandão Costa Arquitectos, as well as thought-provoking essays by Troy Conrad Therrien, the Feminist Architecture Collaborative, Manuel Shvartzberg-Carrío, Caitlin Blanchfield and Nina Kolowratnik with Ophelia Rivas, Jaffer Kolb, Jack Self, Giovanna Borradori, Miles Dugan, Lori Brown, Marina Otero Verzier, Scott Deisher, and Andreas Angelidakis among others.

While Ed #1 has been available globally at ed.archinect.com (get a single issue or the annual subscription for 4 issues per year), we've also been busy building relationships with local retail partners, so you can pick up a copy at your neighborhood bookshop, flip through the pages, and s...

We’re giving away a copy of “Ed” every day this week to our Instagram followers!

2017-12-18T09:00:00-05:00

Last month, Archinect released the very first issue of “Ed”, our new print quarterly journal. Filled with engaging visuals throughout, this issue — “The Architecture of Architecture” — features thought-provoking essays by Troy Conrad Therrien, the Feminist Architecture Collaborative, Manuel Shvartzberg-Carrío, Caitlin Blanchfield and Nina Kolowratnik with Ophelia Rivas, Jaffer Kolb, Jack Self, Giovanna Borradori, Miles Dugan, Lori Brown, Marina Otero Verzier, Scott Deisher, and Andreas Angelidakis.

Other exclusives include a conversation with MAIO, a feature from Interboro Partners' new book “The Arsenal of Inclusion and Exclusion”, and a special iteration of Archinect's Small Studio Snapshots series featuring Brandão Costa Arquitectos, and more.

We’ll be giving away “Ed” Issue #1 to our readers on our Instagram, every day, starting today, until Friday, December 22! Make sure you’re already following us there for a chance to win.

HOW TO ENTER:

1. Follow Archinect's Instagram, @archi...

Come party with Archinect in New York this Thursday! UPDATE: RSVP's have maxed out, contact us to get on wait list

2017-10-09T19:46:00-04:00

UPDATE: We have already hit our limit of 500 confirmed guests for the party. If you have RSVP'd and cannot make it, please update your status here to free up some space for others. If you would like to attend, please send us an email to rsvp@archinect.com, indicating your name and guest name(s), so we can add you to the waiting list.

We're hosting another party, along with our friends Bespoke, next Thursday, October 12th, at the Steelcase WorkLife Showroom. Please join us for for an evening of champagne, hors d’oeuvres and socializing. Click here to RSVP

Archinect presents Next Up: The L.A. River, at the A+D Museum on Saturday, October 29!

2016-10-18T12:06:00-04:00

For the latest installment of Archinect's live podcasting series, Next Up, we're focusing on the L.A. River, and the wide swath of urbanist concerns within its ongoing master planning efforts.

It could be the project that makes, or breaks, Los Angeles. With a complex historical legacy and an often-misunderstood ecology, the L.A. River’s 51-mile stretch is at once a huge urban opportunity, and to many, an even bigger eyesore. Thirty years ago, nonprofit Friends of the Los Angeles River was founded to protect and advocate for the river, and shortly after, the City of L.A. began looking at ways to take better advantage of the immense resource. Since then, many more communities and stakeholders have joined the conversation, raising concerns of ecology, sustainability, gentrification, public space, affordable housing, social equity—a wealth of complexities that testifies to what a lightning rod of urbanist discourse the River has become.

While conversations about the L.A. River’s future ...

Open Call for Submissions: "XXL"

2016-09-27T12:26:00-04:00

It’s going to be “yuge”. It’s an inflated descriptor thrown around a lot these days, but architects have always been trained to think big, whether laying out bathroom plumbing or master planning cities. Sometimes those ideas get built; sometimes others build on those ideas. This October on Archinect, we’re exploring the many ways architects go big, with XXL.

Our open call for submissions under XXL focuses on one of the biggest strokes of architectural expression: infrastructure.

》PROJECT SUBMISSIONS: Map It

Transportation infrastructure is getting an unanticipated overhaul. As new networks like on-demand or ride-sharing services begin to intermesh with older, more static ones, updated expectations of living and getting around have emerged. Speed, access, and sustainability are obvious concerns, as are how they’ll encourage (or prohibit) future urban development.

Whatever your chosen mode of transportation, create a fantasy transportation map in the city (or country, or planet) of your c...

Meet the architects behind the winning Dry Futures proposals

2015-10-24T09:41:00-04:00

While the dust has since settled on Archinect's Dry Futures competition, seeking pragmatic and speculative solutions to California's (ongoing) historic drought, we wanted to get to know the architects behind the winning submissions. How did they approach the competition, and did it alter their practice in any way?

Listen to each winner's reflections below.

Lujac Desautel of "Liquifying Aquifer," 1st place winner in Dry Futures Pragmatic category. Desautel is currently a fifth year architecture student at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Juan Saez of "Liquid Bank," 2nd place winner in Dry Futures Pragmatic category. Saez recently relocated to Los Angeles after working at STL Architects in Chicago.

Barry Lehrman of "Recharge City," 3rd place winner in Dry Futures Pragmatic category. Lehrman is a professor of landscape architecture at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona.

Ali Chen of "Grassroots Cactivism," 1st place winner in Dry Futures Speculative categor...

Archinect presents "Next Up," a live podcasting event in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, this Saturday, October 3rd!

2015-09-30T12:19:00-04:00

Archinect is excited to announce the Chicago installment of our two-part live-podcasting series, Next Up, hosted in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Biennial!

Taking place on the Biennial's opening weekend, the (live!) marathon set of interviews, panels and discussions with Biennial participants will feature an international host of architecture's most exciting and promising players, including:

Bryony Roberts
Rural Urban Framework
New Territories
Iwan Baan
Norman Kelley
WAI Architecture Think Tank
Paul Preissner (Paul Preissner Architects)
Paul Andersen (Independent Architecture)
Sarah Herda (co-artistic director of the Biennial)
Michelle Boone (Chicago Commissioner of Cultural Affairs and Special Events)
FAKE Industries
Andreas Angelidakis
Grupo Toma
Pedro y Juana

Next Up will take place on Saturday, October 3, from 12 - 4pm, at the Chicago Cultural Center's Randolph Sq. The event is free and open to the public – come watch the discussion unfold, and add your own questions to the mix...

Archinect presents Next Up: Podcasting the Future of Architecture at Jai & Jai Gallery, Sat. Sept. 19!

2015-09-10T12:15:00-04:00

Archinect is pleased to invite you to the first iteration of a two-part live-podcasting event, Next Up, at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles! From 7-9PM on Saturday, September 19, we’ll be conducting a series of live interviews, panels, and talks with local architects at the forefront of a rapidly changing field.

Today, architecture is in the midst of a radical transformation and expansion as it adapts to unprecedented changes in the environment, technology, economy, and social spheres. Next Up is the first of an ongoing conversation with some of the figures helping to shape that change, and their take on the forces predicating it.

In Los Angeles, perhaps no issue more dramatically pertains to our urban future than water scarcity. Join us as we address the on-going California drought with the first public announcement of the winners of our Dry Futures competition alongside a conversation with the jurors.

In an adjacent space, we’re screening a series of video works by architects ...

Meet the jury of Archinect's "Dry Futures" competition: Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG

2015-08-26T11:50:00-04:00

Geoff Manaugh is a design and architecture writer, contributing to publications such as Dwell, New Scientist and The New Yorker, as well as authoring several books and the long-running design and architecture site, BLDGBLOG.

Manaugh’s perspective on the drought focuses on the ripe opportunities for improving California’s remarkably inefficient, and in some ways, “undesigned” water systems, extending from its physical infrastructures to the economic market for buying and selling water rights. “I think that the actual pragmatic, ecosystem-based solutions to this – as well as the rethinking of agriculture on a statewide basis, as well as individual water use – I think is something that is really exciting and interesting about this contest.”

In collaboration with Smout Allen Architectural & Design Research, Manaugh will be participating at the Chicago Architecture Biennial this fall.

Have an idea for how to address the drought with design? Submit your ideas to the Dry Futures competition!

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Archinect launches "Dry Futures" competition in response to California's historic drought

2015-07-28T12:11:00-04:00

The Golden State's nickname has taken on a grave new meaning. The agricultural and economic powerhouse of the country is in the midst of a historic drought pervading the whole U.S. Southwest, at once turning sprawling front lawns into golden-brown scratch pads and inciting Chinatown-style disputes among developers, farmers, and residents over water rights. The situation is dire, and while conservation efforts are succeeding to a degree, plans must extend into the far future in order to contend with depleted reservoirs and record low-levels of groundwater. Cities can't always count on free-flowing taps.

Believing that architects are in a unique position to imagine how the built environment must adapt, Archinect is launching “Dry Futures” – a new competition seeking imaginative, pragmatic, idealist, or perhaps even dystopic, design proposals for the future of California’s drought. And the stakes couldn't be higher: in a recent op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Jay Famiglietti, senior w...

Archinect & The Architecture Lobby wants to know how satisfied you are with your job

2015-06-19T13:51:00-04:00

While the employment market is very ripe for job-seeking architects at the moment, there’s no guarantee that some of those opportunities won’t turn out rotten. The architecture profession is infamous for its highly skewed work-life balance, emphasis on the work, and office culture may not offer much relief. Impossibly long hours, low pay grades and demanding principals are almost seen as badges of honor. There are of course the golden eggs, the ideal employers who respect their employee’s life outside the office, and produce better work because of it.

But much of the work-life balance conversation in architecture is very cloak and dagger: no one wants to badmouth an employer, or limit their chances of gaining a high-profile position, and sometimes, it can be hard to distinguish ethical treatment from cultural convention. Now that the market has improved, and employees can afford to be a bit pickier, work-life balance will play a pivotal role in the distribution of architectural talen...

Ain't No Party Like an Archinect Party: Treatise Launch at the VDL House

2015-05-06T16:20:00-04:00

The Cognoscenti Coffee cocktails were flowing (and frothing) at the Neutra VDL House on Saturday May 2nd, as Archinect, the VDL House and the Graham Foundation hosted the book launch of Treatise, a series of publications wherein 14 relatively new design offices explored the question "Why Write Alone?" Featuring work from emerging talents such as Andrew Kovacs, Point Supreme, and SOFTLab, the project is part of a larger mandate to explore creative approaches to architecture, and was initially part of an exhibition featuring over 200 models, images, drawings, and multi-media installations curated by Jimenez Lai in Chicago in January.

Photo by Diana Koenigsberg

Several hours into the party, the stylishly-dressed Lai mounted the gravel strewn median above the courtyard to toast the Graham Foundation for providing the grant that made Treatise possible. He also thanked Archinect's Paul Petrunia for hosting the event, to which over 250 attendees affirmatively R.S.V.P.-ed.

Photo by Diana Koe...

Archinect Project Collections presents your Guggenheim Helsinki proposals!

2014-12-30T19:37:00-05:00

One of 2014's most popular news item was the announcement of Stage One of the not uncontroversial Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition.

With a mind-boggling pool of over 1,700 Stage One entries (and one Idaho potato) from 77 countries, it's tough to grant each proposal an appropriate platform and audience — so we created a new exciting Archinect feature: Project Collections!

Over the past few weeks, many of you had already followed our call to share your own submissions as project posts directly on your Archinect people or firm profiles, and Project Collections has them now all accessible in one handy Guggenheim Helsinki list.

Haven't submitted your entry yet? Worry not — the collection is an ongoing effort and new matches are constantly being added to the list.

TO SHARE YOUR GUGGENHEIM HELSINKI SUBMISSION:

Simply submit your entries as project posts to your Archinect profile. Don't have a profile yet? Click here if you're a firm, or here if you're an individual.

We're adding entries t...

27 weird and compelling architectural evolutions of 2014

2014-12-30T11:30:00-05:00

Technofuturism:

Aftershock #4: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neuroscientific Architecture Research: Bringing the brain into evidence-based design, one EEG-measured dérive at a time. Reporting from the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture's conference in San Diego, California.

Working out of the Box: Francis Tsai: Tsai was diagnosed with ALS far before the ice bucket challenge, and despite his total-body atrophy, is able to continue drawing as a videogames and comics artist using a special camera that tracks his eye movements and translates them into digital drawing commands.

Martha Stewart in the age of drone photography: Through war, Amazon deliveries and Dronestagram, Martha unilaterally loves her drone.

Neural Cartography: Mapping the Brain's Response to DUMBO in Brooklyn: One of the jet-setters investing in neuroscientific research for architecture and urbanism, the Van Alen Institute teams up with Columbia's GSAPP to create mental maps of DUMBO.

Protesting:

Screen/Prin...

Episode 2 of "Archinect Sessions" podcast out now!

2014-10-16T19:35:00-04:00

"Archinect Sessions" is a weekly podcast discussing recent news items and happenings on the site. Hosted by Archinect's founder and publisher, Paul Petrunia, alongside Editorial Manager Amelia Taylor-Hochberg, the podcast pulls on the expertise of special weekly co-hosts, whether other Archinectors or players within the architecture community at large.

Co-hosts Donna Sink and Ken Koense join us for our second episode, to discuss licensing and IDP issues at NCARB, the value of mentorship in the profession, and the latest news on the Moriyama RAIC International Prize. We also spoke with Archinector Terri Peters about her coverage of the Moriyama Prize, and have a special bonus interview (available below) with Haley Gipe, Assoc. AIA, who's involved with the renaming issue through NCARB and AIA.

To listen to the "Archinect Sessions" podcast:

iTunes: Click here to subscribe, and click the "Subscribe" button below the logo to automatically download new episodes.
Apple Podcast App (iOS): cl...

Editor's Picks #378

2014-07-30T15:14:00-04:00

Amelia Taylor-Hochberg Editorial Manager for Archinect, penned another essay in the "non-conclusive series" AfterShock. Titled Brains and the City, in it she explores a new world of EEG urbanism, GSAPP’s Cloud Lab, brain computer interfaces and human architect-slash-neuroscientist designer(s).

Chris Teeter is very interested in this line of research. He believes, "I think as a good option for finding a 'legitimacy' to the art and science of architecture, neuroscience, and more specifically phenomenology-neuroscience-architecture is a very exciting path what tons of potential." Thayer-D is "Looking forward to the next installment, conclusive or not".

Plus, #21 of Screen/Print: featured Log 31, "New Ancients"

News
As an offshoot of the Deans List editorial series, Archinect interviewed a few of the newly appointed leaders in architecture education, to survey their plans for the position at the very beginning of their tenure. anonitect defended Donna Sink's earlier comments which "are tot...

Archinect iPhone app updated for iOS 7

2013-11-05T11:21:00-05:00

We've updated the Archinect iPhone app with a subtle user interface refresh for iOS 7 users. We've also made a few other minor style updates and bug fixes.

Left: main "highlights" screen / Right: article screen

As with the previous releases of the Archinect app, we've focused on simplicity, providing you with highlighted content, jobs, and a fully interactive discussion forum.

Left: bottom of article screen / Right: article comments

Engage with other Archinect members by logging in and joining the conversation.

Left: jobs screen / Right: detailed job description screen

Stay up-to-date on the latest job opportunities while you're on the go. Our search function in the Jobs section allows you to quickly narrow down the exhaustive list of jobs to the location or job type that matches your needs.

Left: discussion forum screen / Right: image gallery screen

Since launching our app last year, tens of thousands of people have been using the Archinect app on a daily basis, a...

7 reasons why you need to be using Archinect's FOLLOW feature

2013-07-26T13:21:00-04:00

Keeping up-to-date with your favorite architects, firms and schools has just become WAY easier!

As you know, Archinect delivers a lot of news and information, every day, reflecting the activity of the architecture community at large. For some people, this can be too much information!

So, to make your life easier, we've introduced a tool allowing you to follow your favorite architects, firms and schools, so you can keep track of news, features, projects and activities specifically related to them.

In addition to jobs, projects, press releases, events, etc, that Firms and Schools post to directly their Archinect profiles, the updates also include News and Features published by Archinect, relating to the profiles you follow.

You don't even need to visit Archinect to get the updates! By default, a summary of the updates to your followed profiles will be emailed to you each day there is new activity. If you prefer to get the news through your web browser, simply visit yo...

Announcing the 2013 LA Film Festival Director's Lounge Design Competition, co-hosted by Archinect

2013-03-27T14:56:00-04:00

We're excited to announce a competition we're co-hosting with Designer Pages and the LA Film Festival. This competition seeks proposals for the interior design/layout of the VIP Director's Lounge for this year's LA Film Festival.

The winner will have their design executed, with a cash prize and an "Industry Badge" pass to the LA Film Festival in June. The winner's designs will also be on display in the director's lounge throughout the festival, which will be seen by many of the entertainment industry's most influential and respected members (hint: pretty amazing source for new clients).

Take a look at the website for the full details - competition.lafilmfest.com

Artinfo selects Archinect's Pinterest collection as best in the architecture category

2013-01-31T18:24:00-05:00

We must admit, what first attracted us to this account were the fun plays on the word architecture. Boards titled “Architect Sure!” and “Artchitecture” give a sense of the whimsy that following this account will bring to your feed. This pinner organizes jaw-dropping images of photography by color and material, and will even bring you the latest in architecture news.

Follow Archinect on Pinterest here.

And click here to check out our interview with Pinterest co-found Evan Sharp.