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Archinect's Top 12 Jobs for '12

2013-01-04T00:05:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Jobs during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

Do not contact these firms regarding the following job openings. These jobs have all been filled. To see hundreds of currently active job listings, visit the Archinect Job Board.

1. OMA was seeking an Architect in Rotterdam, NL

2. Miller & Wright Architects was seeking a Designer-Architect in New York, NY

3. Marmol Radziner was seeking an Entry Level Architect in Los Angeles, CA

4. OMA was seeking a Designer in Rotterdam, NL

5. Steven Holl Architects was seeking an Architect in New York, NY

6. Studio GAIA was seeking an Intern in New York, NY

7. Gabellini Sheppard Associates was seeking a Junior Interior Designer in New York, NY

8. Scalar Architecture was seeking an Entry Level Designer in New York, NY

9. AvroKO was seeking a Junior Designer in New York, NY

10. OMA was seeking an Architect in Hong Kong, HK

11. Safdie...

Archinect's Top 12 Competitions for '12

2013-01-04T00:04:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Competitions during 2012, powered by our sister site Bustler. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. d3 Natural Systems 2012

2. eVolo 2013 Skyscraper Competition

3. Gowanus by Design: WATER_WORKS

4. New York CityVision Competition

5. Museum Of Architecture (MOA), London Competition

6. [Imagine Downtown] Lafayette: Open Ideas Competition for Downtown Development

7. Cleveland Design Competition - Transforming the Bridge

8. POST+Capitalist City #1Shop

9. REVIVAL OF THE SILO

10. d3 Housing Tomorrow 2013 Competition

11. Hotel Tower & Sky Garden - NEW YORK

12. Daegu Gosan Public Library - UIA approved international architectural ideas competition

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Archinect's Top 12 Discussions for '12

2013-01-04T00:03:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Discussion threads during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. 2012 M.Arch Applicants - Final Results, Decisions, Stats, etc.

2. Is there any future in Architecture???

3. Yay!!!!! Architecture has the highest unemployment rate!

4. 2013 APPLICANTS PREP

5. Appropriate Salary?

6. What does an architecture firm look for in a cover letter for an entry level designer?

7. sick of architecture being called a bad profession

8. No license... how much to pay licensed architect to stamp drawings?

9. Evolution of Architecture as a Profession

10. Why don't contemporary architects care about well-dressing anymore?

11. Is the world ready for Parametric/ Morphogenetic Architecture?

12. What is the dress code in your office?

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list of europe's best archite...

Archinect's Top 12 Projects for '12

2013-01-03T00:50:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Projects during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Deconstructing the Churches by Michael Jantzen

2. Alésia Museum by Bernard Tschumi Architects

3. Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Shelter by David Frazee

4. Irish Hunger Memorial by 1100 Architect

5. Parker Arts & Cultural Events {PACE} Center by Semple Brown Design, P.C.

6. WHICH STATESMAN SAID: WE SHAPE OUR BUILDINGS. THEREAFTER THEY SHAPE US.? by NEXT Architects

7. Guggenheim Helsinki by Gabriel A. Huerta

8. RETROFITTING THE AMERICAN DREAM by Artur Nesterenko Alexandrovich

9. superNODE by tyler hopf

10. Huludao Beach Exhibit Center by META-Project

11. House in a pinewood by sundaymorning

12. Won Dharma Center by Hanrahan Meyers Architects

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Archinect's Top 12 School Profiles for '12

2013-01-03T00:49:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited School Profiles during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Columbia University

2. Pratt Institute

3. Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

4. Harvard University

5. Rice University

6. Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA)

7. The Cooper Union

8. University at Buffalo

9. Parsons The New School for Design

10. Cornell University

11. Woodbury University

12. Yale University

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Archinect's Top 12 People Profiles for '12

2013-01-03T00:47:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited People Profiles during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Orhan Ayyüce

2. Tyler Hopf

3. Joann Lui

4. Natalie Hardbattle

5. Sean McGuire

6. Kimberly V.K.H. Nguyen

7. Donna Sink

8. Betsy Cole

9. Artur Nesterenko Alexandrovich

10. Daniel Kidd

11. Sara Gaskari

12. Katherine York

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Archinect's Top 12 Firm Profiles for '12

2013-01-03T00:46:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Firm Profiles during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. OMA

2. Wiel Arets Architects

3. Marmol Radziner

4. Diller Scofidio + Renfro

5. Allied Works Architecture

6. Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors

7. Safdie Architects

8. Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)

9. Grimshaw Architects

10. 1100 Architect

11. Gensler

12. Platform for Architecture + Research (PAR)

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Archinect's Top 12 Blogs for '12

2013-01-02T00:55:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Blogs during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Harvard GSD M.Arch.I (Lian)

2. design/buildLAB - Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design

3. The Architectural Venn Diagram

4. Indo Inquisition - 13 weeks in India

5. University of Illinois Chicago (Matthew) - The Shape of Cool

6. Stocking the City - The Architecture and Infrastructure of Public Food Markets

7. mal-practice - the architecture of constructing a practice

8. designHUSTLE - hustling my way to the top of the design world, one sketch at a time

9. Harvard GSD (bryan boyer)

10. Finding my first job - Brian Henry (M.Arch, U of Idaho, 2011)

11. Just an Intern - our architectural life inbetween

12. Tangential Fabrications - or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Computer

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Archinect's Top 12 Blog Posts for '12

2013-01-02T00:53:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Blog posts during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. // Architectural LOLCATS

2. Ruins of an Alternate Future (Jinhua Architecture Park)

3. Unpaid internships are so hot right now

4. Top Architectural Record award for Guangzhou Opera House? Really?

5. Architecture Ryan Gosling

6. Wang Shu/Amateur Architecture

7. Live Blog: Rem Koolhaas

8. the cold cruel numbers for upcoming graduates...

9. EPA Competition Final Board: Draft 1

10. skills vs need vs fees

11. House na by Sou Fujimoto

12. // Trends in Generative Design

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Archinect's Top 12 Live Blogs for '12

2013-01-02T00:51:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Live Blog posts during 2012, all authored by our live blogger extraordinaire Lian Chikako Chang at Harvard School of Architecture. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Rem Koolhaas

2. Patrik Schumacher

3. Wang Shu on "Building a Diverse World Following the Natural Way"

4. “Design Technologies as Agents of Change,” with Bock, Seletsky, Oxman, Rocker, and Bechthold.

5. Diana Balmori and Joel Sanders on Landscape and Architecture

6. Preston Scott Cohen speaks with Nicolai Ouroussoff about his new Herta and Paul Amir Building, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

7. Scott Cohen and Nader Tehrani, "my house is better than your house"

8. Toyo Ito, "What Was Metabolism? Reflections on the Life of Kiyonori Kikutake"

9. Richard Sennett, "The Architecture of Cooperation"

10. Wang Shu, Geometry and Narrative of Natural Form

11. Saskia Sassen, "Immigrants and Citizens in the Global City"

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Archinect's Top 12 Features for '12

2013-01-01T11:21:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Feature articles during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Tadao Ando Interview: 20 Minutes with a Master

2. Working out of the Box: Pinterest Co-Founder Evan Sharp

3. The Architecture Job Application Hints & Suggestions from Employers***

4. Composing the Personal Narrative Archinect's Official Portfolio Guide Part I: The Academic Portfolio***

5. Still Ugly After All These Years: A Close Reading of Peter Eisenman’s Wexner Center

6. How to Use Archinect to Get a Job; Part 1: Optimizing your Profile

7. Amateur Architecture: A New Vernacular?

8. Architecture and Design Graduates – How to Secure Your First Position – Part 1***

9. Color in Architecture — More Than Just Decoration

10. The CRIT: Thoughts on MoMA's Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

11. Manhattanisms : RAM(s) vs. REM

12. ShowCase: New Keelung Harbor Service Building

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Archinect's Top 12 News for '12

2013-01-01T11:19:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited News posts during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Master Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer passes away at 104

2. Lebbeus Woods dead at 72

3. First Frank Gehry Home Completed by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation

4. Plans for new Apple HQ, by Norman Foster, officially released

5. Atlantic City boardwalk collapse as Hurricane Sandy slams coast

6. Lego Architecture with Rem Koolhaas

7. Brad Pitt is now a furniture designer

8. Mayor Bloomberg announces new "micro-unit" apartment design competition

9. New National Stadium Japan Competition Unveils 11 Finalists

10. Brian Henry, SCI-Arc student, jumps to his death

11. Comparison of other major cities that can fit inside LA

12. First Images of the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

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Archinect's Top 11 Events for '11

2012-01-17T12:53:00-05:00

Below are the 11 most visited Events during 2011, powered by our sister site Bustler. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here.

1. Design Speed Dating: CALL FOR PORTFOLIOS

2. Teaching Architecture: 3 Positions Made in Switzerland

3. Compostela Architecture Summer Program 2011

4. ARCHITECTURE FOR FREE!?

5. THE CRITICAL MOMENT: ARCHITECTURE IN THE EXPANDED FIELD

6. Rethink LA: Perspectives on a Future City

7. Material Matters Workshop

8. WAF is back! Entries open 1 April

9. 4 Projects: 4 Scales - Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects

10. Archtober

11. UIA 2011 TOKYO

This concludes our mini series Archinect's 11 Top 11 for '11. We hope you enjoy Archinect also in 2012!

Archinect's Top 11 Competitions for '11

2012-01-16T12:49:00-05:00

Below are the 11 most visited Competitions during 2011, powered by our sister site Bustler. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here.

1. eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition

2. ONE PRIZE 2011: WATER AS THE SIXTH BOROUGH

3. Unbuilt Architecture and Design Awards

4. 2011 Cleveland Design Competition

5. Tap City

6. Integrative Materialities: Design & Fabrication Competition

7. The Un-Competition Project: Invent it, Design it, Build it.

8. CIRCO MASSIMO COMPETITION a new center in ROME

9. Barcelona 2011 - Tower in Gothic Quarter: Bohemian Hostel for Backpackers

10. d3 Housing Tomorrow 2012

11. Design for the smallest parcel of real estate ever!!!

Stay tuned for more Archinect's 11 Top 11 for '11! Tomorrow: the Top 11 Events.

Archinect's Top 11 Jobs for '11

2012-01-13T12:55:00-05:00

Below are the 11 most visited Jobs during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here.

Do not contact these firms regarding the following job openings. These jobs have all been filled. To see hundreds of currently active job listings, visit the Archinect Job Board.

1. Urban A&O seeking Designer in New York, NY

2. Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA seeking Junior Architect in Paris, France

3. Koko Architecture + Design seeking Junior/Intermediate Architect in New York, NY

4. Lang Architecture seeking Junior Architect in New York, NY

5. ac martin partners seeking Junior Designer/Intern in Los Angeles, CA

6. Allied Works Architecture seeking Intern Architect/Designer in New York, NY

7. Arquitectonica seeking Junior Architect/Designer in New York, NY

8. KAA Design seeking Junior Architectural Designer in Los Angeles, CA

9. Dattner Architects seeking Architect (Intern) in New York, NY

10. Cooper Joseph Studi...

Archinect's Top 11 Projects for '11

2012-01-12T12:30:00-05:00

Below are the 11 most visited Projects during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here.

1. Urban Interiorites

2. Colorado House

3. Beijing House II

4. Tex-Tonic House 1

5. The American Institute of Steel Reclamation

6. Long Island House

7. Fonderie Center

8. Sunset Cabin

9. EDF Archives Center

10. Knowledge Scape Interventions

11. Underlying Locations: Architecture Thesis Studio Project 2011

Stay tuned for more Archinect's 11 Top 11 for '11! Tomorrow: the Top 11 Jobs.

Archinect's Top 11 School Profiles for '11

2012-01-11T12:50:00-05:00

Below are the 11 most visited School Profiles during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here.

1. Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

2. Pratt Institute

3. The Cooper Union

4. University of Michigan

5. Columbia University

6. Harvard University

7. Parsons The New School for Design

8. NewSchool of Architecture + Design

9. New York City College of Technology

10. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

11. Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA)

Stay tuned for more Archinect's 11 Top 11 for '11! Tomorrow: the Top 11 Projects.

Archinect's Top 11 Firm Profiles for '11

2012-01-10T09:00:00-05:00

Below are the 11 most visited Firm Profiles during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here.

1. 1100 Architect

2. Shlemmer Algaze Associates

3. Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP

4. Diller Scofidio + Renfro

5. Remedios Studio

6. MAD

7. Belmont Freeman Architects

8. Marmol Radziner

9. Modern Arc Inc.

10. Urban A&O

11. Koko Architecture + Design

Stay tuned for more Archinect's 11 Top 11 for '11! Tomorrow: the Top 11 School Profiles.

Archinect's Top 11 People Profiles for '11

2012-01-09T13:10:00-05:00

Below are the 11 most visited People Profiles during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here.

1. Orhan Ayyüce

2. Donna Sink

3. Amy Leedham

4. Michael Villegas

5. Carolyn Ng

6. Steven Ward

7. Virginia Melnyk

8. Tim Do

9. J. James R.

10. Marco Rocha

11. Adam Lee Casey

Stay tuned for more Archinect's 11 Top 11 for '11! Tomorrow: the Top 11 Firm Profiles.

Archinect's Top 11 Blog Posts for '11

2012-01-06T09:00:00-05:00

Below are the 11 most visited Blog posts during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here.

1. Rafael Viñoly on a Sunday

2. Live Blog: The Core of Architecture’s Discourse Now: A New Generation of Scholar Critics Speak Out

3. Live Blog: Stan Allen and Preston Scott Cohen

4. Live Blog: Wang Shu, Geometry and Narrative of Natural Form

5. On Making and Learning Architecture: a conversation with Danielle Etzler (video)

6. If these are the best firm websites, we're in trouble

7. Alternative architect profile: Nic Granleese ['Para-architect']

8. Cooper Union's shaky finances: tuition to come?

9. If Architects were Punx...

10. networking really is working...

11. Kengo Kuma for Starbucks Coffee

Stay tuned for more Archinect's 11 Top 11 for '11! Tomorrow: the Top 11 People Profiles.

Archinect's Top 11 Discussions for '11

2012-01-05T12:19:00-05:00

Below are the 11 most visited Discussion threads during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here.

1. 2012 M.Arch Applicants, Commiserate Here!

2. Architect Salary Increasing?

3. Is architecture a hard career?

4. 2011 M.Arch Applicants - Final Results, Decisions, Stats, GPA, GRE, TOEFL, Letters Portfolios, etc.

5. herzog & de meuron website

6. 2012 Design Intelligence Rankings

7. unemployed grad's who want a place to complain about things!

8. #OccupyWallStreet

9. Do architects deserve higher salaries?

10. architects getting f'd on Craigslist

11. Architecture as Art: Good Idea or Very Bad Idea?

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Thread Central

2011 M.Arch applicants, commiserate here!

Stay tuned for more Archinect's 11 Top 11 for '11! Tomorrow: the Top 11 Blog Posts.

Archinect's Top 11 Features for '11

2012-01-04T12:25:11-05:00

Below are the 11 most visited Feature articles during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here.

1. Review: Central Park at Playa Vista by Michael Maltzan Architects

2. Architecture and Design Graduates – How to Secure Your First Position – Part 1

3. ShowCase: Butaro Hospital in Rwanda

4. Top 10 Design Milestones of 2011—for the public good

5. PS1 YAP 2011 Wrap-up

6. NEXT SERIES: ARCHITECTURE JURY, A Factual and Fictional Manual

7. 5 Projects: Interview 3 - Matthew Persinger

8. Top 10 Design Initiatives to Watch in 2012—for the public good

9. ShowCase: Herta and Paul Amir Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

10. MIT, Going FAST After 150 Years

11. Op-Ed: Sticks and Stones; Ai Weiwei and the Uses of Architecture

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Archinect's Top 11 News for '11

2012-01-03T19:40:22-05:00

Below are the 11 most visited News posts during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here.

1. Plans for new Apple HQ, by Norman Foster, officially released

2. MVRDV designs The Cloud for Seoul’s Yongsan Dreamhub

3. Not Your Mama's (Skateboard) House

4. Alleged Forced Resignation at McGill University Stirs Backlash from Students

5. MVRDV Responds to 9/11 References in Cloud Project

6. Polish architect building world's narrowest house between Warsaw tower blocks

7. Libeskind pool ceiling collapses in Bern

8. Archinect Zine #1, AI WEIWEI, newly released!!

9. KRob Competition 2011 - The winners are in!

10. Foreign Office Architects part ways after 16 years

11. Steve Jobs Proposes Spaceship-Shaped Cupertino Campus

Stay tuned for more Archinect's 11 Top 11 for '11! Tomorrow: the Top 11 Features.

2011 year in review: Best in architecture

2011-12-16T17:31:22-05:00

It was a year in which American architects despaired that the economy might never really recover. It was also a year in which they produced a few small gems. And the profession as a whole continued to move past the flashy formalism of the last decade to seek new, genuine kinds of engagement with cities and people.

Philip Kennicott’s top art and architecture of 2011

2011-12-09T13:34:00-05:00

It was a year without theme or focus, haunted by financial and political anxieties, but culturally diffuse. Which is to say, a year like most others in this age of no discernible isms or movements, no dominant ideologies, no marching to a single manifesto.

Best architecture of 2011: Despite the ongoing construction downturn, much to celebrate

2011-12-09T13:29:10-05:00

It was, on the whole, a quiet year for architecture, the lack of widespread construction activity reflecting the lingering impact of the 2008 financial crisis. But there were still new buildings to celebrate, along with rare victories for historic preservationists and an even rarer accolade for Chicago architect Jeanne Gang.

Best of the Student Shows 2011

2011-07-25T20:11:29-04:00

This year the Blueprint team and a panel of 14 critics travelled to student degree shows across Great Britain and Europe. After viewing hundreds of presentations from a diverse range of disciplines, here we have compiled their findings, bringing you some of this year’s best work from the designers and architects of the future.