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News School Blogs
Barry, at University of Minnesota, is not only a happy camper but also one that will soon start teaching at North America's 2nd largest university. Congrats, Barry!
We welcome a shiny new face among the Archinect school bloggers: *drumroll* David, at CU Denver! For his premier entry, David delights us with great photos from his recent road trip from LA to Colorado.
Staircase fetishists - Luke, at University of Washington, has a real babe for you.
Mark, at Hampton University, is throwing out his (very pretty) portfolio bait and is waiting for big fish. Good luck, Mark.
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James, at University of Cincinnati, returns from touring Denmark's architectural gems and is...oh well...back to studio. One more week til pin up.
Quilian, at Harvard University - GSD, looks back at two intense weeks of GSD's Career Discovery program and prepares to face his future. You can do it, Q!
Nick, at UC Berkeley, finishes up the Urban Islands studio in Sydney, enjoys a couple days respite in New Zealand, and - accidentally - breaks his personal record of longest school blog post. Ever.
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Utako, at University of Toronto, is excited to see so much Canada in Cleveland, Ohio.
Melissa, at Rice School of Architecture, takes pride in practicing within that big, black blob that is...um... Houston.
If you think you had a bad day, read the latest post from Erica, at Waterloo School of Architecture. She's in the mood for some serious FML. Of course she's in architecture school.
Our ever-traveling school blogger Nick, at UC Berkeley, is now in New Zealand...no wait...Sydney, Australia for the Urban Islands intensive design studio. Day 1 | Days 2 & 3 | Day 4
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Scott, at UCLA, organizes a studio trip to the Michael Jackson auction show in Beverly Hills and finds a lot of crap cool "Jacksonia".
Kirk, at Architectural Association, can't wait to find out if the third issue of the redesigned AA Files is the true audience tester.
Jacob, at Kent State University, gets ready for grad school and wonders how he should begin to debug the suburb.
Travis, at École Spéciale d'Architecture, experiences a week-long workshop with Teddy Cruz and sheds some light on his involvement in the San Diego-Tijuana border issue.
Chris, at Birmingham City University, continues to brew up thoughts on the tribe of the Choleric people setting up hives within an abandoned steelworks and creating nodes to connect life-supporting programs and stuff...
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Albert, at Boston Architectural Colleg, spent a romantic Valentine's Day with a sketch problem. Yay!
Nick, at UC Berkeley, is trapped with a cold in a semi-subterranean Korean hostel room. Over a hot bowl of ramen, he blogs about the planned conversion of Seoul's Yongsam Garrison into a Central Park, Far East and posts soundbites from the War Memorial.
Mustafa, at Architectural Association, DRL, posted some on the side processing stuff. We have no idea what this is, but - hey! - it's darn pretty.
Erin, at University of Washington, calls for a quick survey on compelling terms that encourage bicycle riding.
Jacob, at Kent State University, asks: does urban design exist?
Quilian, at Harvard University - GSD, shares the video of the must see GSD lecture: Bruno Latour & Peter Sloterdijk, "Networks and Spheres: Two Ways to Reinterpret Globalization".
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Chris, at Birmingham City University, has been a diligent school blogger in the last few days and shares thoughts on priest holes, media machines, and choleric tribes.
Samuel, at University of Tennessee, doesn't really hate Le Corbusier and asks for feedback on current Volume II.
Nick, at UC Berkeley, also proudly announces his school's publication: am:journal.
Gene, at New Jersey Institute of Technology, has it hot off the presses: the NJSoA Spring Lecture Series schedule. Mark your calendars, people!
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Chris, at Bartlett, takes us down into the fascinating maze of an ancient sewer system and shows us where the little rats get so fresh and so clean.
Erin, at University of Washington, tells us why she's taking the same class twice.
Port lovers, listen up: Tyler, at Dalhousie University, continues his photo saga Photos of Halifax with pictures of a shipping port at night.
Evan, at University of Hong Kong, is swamped.
A Center for Ants?, at UCLA, is prepping for a midreview and asks, "Can we use the idea of phenomenal transparency as a generative concept for the new generation of case study houses?" Discussion anyone?
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Thomas, at University of Detroit Mercy, has just posted his sophomore entry and tells us why the School of Architecture at UDM is the bomb.
Erin, at University of Washington, explains why she hates to slap a metal logo on garbage island and call it a day.
Michael, at University of Houston, helps us to imagine what an architecture school evacuation looks like as hurricane Ike is rolling in from the gulf, ready to hit Houston as a (expected) category 3. Good luck, Michael, and - with Marlin's words - watch your head!
Our very own Quilian, at Harvard University - GSD, just got back from Tijuana, Mexico, and posts some great images and information on the thesis project and its context. His semester starts next week - we're excited to read more, Quilian!
Jenna, at Carleton University, Ottawa, shares some early wisdom about criticism and compliments with us.
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Tim, at SCI-Arc, gives us 1/ 1.5/ 2 days of Fogbank, narrated in (beautiful) photographs.
Nik, at NC State, takes on Boullée.
Mark, at Hampton, summarizes his studio trip to Prague and includes another video for us.
Bryan, at Harvard's GSD, delivers a Special Stairs Edition! of the popular Elite Modeling School series.
Nik, from NC State University, posts some bling.
Alexander, from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, tell us about an upcoming exhibition of student work.
Nkiru, at Rice, shares the winning entry to the China Lab Charrette by Rice students Matthew Crnkovich, Quyen Ma, Viktor Ramos and Peter Stanley.
Quilian, at the GSD, reviews the recent Teddy Cruz lecture "The Functioning Core vs. The Non-Integrated Gap", which leads to an interesting discussion among the readers.
Bryan, also at the GSD, takes a break from his thesis work to share a little insight into Neufert Architects' Data, the European equivalent to Architectural Graphic Standards.
Quilian, at the GSD, provides a glimpse into last week's Pecha Kucha "looking at all the student-led publications the GSD has seen over the years" and "the web-based journal our re: GSD student journal team has been working on".
Danny, at the Cooper Union, sends his luck to all the new applicants.
Nic, at NC State, uploads a couple improperly cropped, but nicely drawn, (studio?) images. To view the images in full click here and here.
Michael, at the University of Houston's Studio Prix studio at the Vienna-University of Applied Arts, takes advantage of the month-long break by hiking with his wife in Italy's Cinque Terre, visiting Rome, and ending up in Cairo, Egypt, where he shares some fascinating photos of Garbage City.
Jill, at Columbia, posts a link to her site about "Europe's tallest and greenest building" (not school related).
Arjun, at MIT, returns from a site visit in Mumbai, India, and has some wonderful photos to share before diving back into thesis.
Mark, at Columbia, mixes economics with eco-friendliness in his final proposal for Brazil.
Mark, at Hampton U, continues his vlogging with some documentation of his studio project.
Nik, at NC Statue University, also serves up some studio work via YouTube.
RSA, a Nigerian student at Rice U, has recently taken over Wendy's old Rice blog. In his latest entry he discusses his experience with the China Lab Charrette, which is then followed by some interesting reader discussion.
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