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Nightmare job - working for a Diva/o
By ohhh_architecture: Needing to vent? and maybe get some outside perspective...I sure do. And yes, one should be grateful to have a job! (but at a sweatshop?)

Disclaimer: My first blog, will not respond to hurtful/negative remarks, will delete if I can, might answer some questions....will not disclose personal or professional details,....we are all learning this game...different strokes for different folks, be nice =)

These post are intended to reflect on recent experiences, and hopefully gain some insight
Attainable Sustainable Design

By Amy Leedham: A discussion on everything to do with sustainable design. From renewable energy to implementing integrated design in professional practice. Case studies, article reviews and green building certification methods and additional resources will all be included.: A discussion on everything to do with sustainable design. From renewable energy to implementing integrated design in professional practice. Case studies, article reviews and green building certification methods and additional resources will all be included.
Hello....my name is ROBERT - An open door into J.R.'s domain.
By R_O_B_E_R_T: No architecture is worse than a missed opportunity.

ROBERT intends to open the dialogue of Dallas in a manner that focuses on a collective mindset that strives to uncover the critical, praise the successes, and recognize the potential in the Metroplex.

We have a central voice again....but why not many.

Whether you live in Dallas or have something to say about it, speak through Robert and submit your piece to robert@robertarchitecture.com.

The basis is open.
MegalopolisNow - city talks
By Donato de Vivo: www.megalopolisnow.com

I created this blog to share each other architectural, urban and technological news and thoughts about the new form of city that is developing now: the megalopolis. The future of all us is playing in these urban settings and we must contribute to the debate for a better way of life, more sustainable and beautiful.

www.megalopolisnow.com
Thinking About Architecture by Larry Speck
By lawrencewspeck: Although it may sound cliched, I live, eat and breathe architecture. I’m currently a principal in the architectural firm of PageSoutherlandPage and a professor, as well as the former dean, in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. My teaching and my blog are aimed at educating people on the importance of great architecture in contemporary American culture.
The University of Tokyo (Christopher) - G30 Architecture & Urbanism - Obuchi Lab
By Christopher Sjoberg: The G30 is an English language, architecture and urbanism course offered through the University of Tokyo for foreign students. Led by former AA Design Research Lab Co-Director, Associate Professor Yusuke Obuchi, the program seeks to collaboratively advance architectural and urban design research through the symbiosis of digital technologies and material development.
University of Tokyo
Solar Decathlon Competition 2013 - SCI-Arc/Caltech Team - D.A.L.E. (Dynamic Augmented Living Environment) Project
By Nicole Violani, Paige Chambers: The Solar Decathlon Competition is a biennial competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Solar Energy where 20 schools from around the world compete in designing and building a net zero prototype home.
The SCI-Arc/Caltech team proposes D.A.L.E. (Dynamic Augmented Living Environment), a 600sf micro-home that literally moves on rails, expanding to create a mid-yard and multiplying the inhabitable space.
For more information on DALE, please view: http://vimeo.com/57032793
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
Live Blog - AIA 2013 Spring Conference "Regional Modernism"
By Alvin Huang, AIA, NOMA, Deepika Padam:
Cal Poly Pomona>>Kyushu University>>Harvard GSD
By John Tubles:
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
China: Adventures in Architecture - GSAPP alumnus
By Eduardo: After 6 years working at a commercial firm in London and setting up my own practice with collegues from the AA to deliver a comission for a tower we won in India, I am embarking on a new adventure as studio leader for a local firm in China, trying to reconnect with the experimental mind set I used to have during my days at GSAPP
Columbia University
Thesis Year - Inverting the Host/ Guest Relationship
By Darian Mason: A blog for an on going MArch Thesis Student
Thesis is now in progress. This Blog will track the advancement through the program and record the many iterations that it takes to arrive at the final solution.
My thesis is concerning how architecture can adapt to immigrant cultures and the current mixing of world cultures.
It will be a fun ride!
University of Hawaii Manoa: Architecture School - Visiting Lecturers
By SkyeArchitectureBlog, hsieh, Danalli: Guest speakers visiting from different places coming together and lecturing about their projects, groups, and firms at the University of Hawaii Manoa: School of Architecture.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
More or Less

By farid rakun: A school blog on Arch Dept, Cranbrook Academy of Art. By farid rakun, admitted Fall 2011.: A school blog on Arch Dept, Cranbrook Academy of Art. By farid rakun, admitted Fall 2011.
Cranbrook Academy of Art
BROOMSTACHE - Order of economic discussion
By Dino Tadiar: Products, places, cultures are cycling faster than Tiger Woods changed girlfriends. Its an interesting time that needs to be confronted with because... wait for it.....what is beautiful places, products, cultures if we keep changing the face every season? Capitalism has made a platform for V 2.0 to be a need and not a want. I launched a kickstarter campaign for a product line... its called Broomstache. you can look at it at www.broomstache.com find out more what i'm talking.
IFDC Master course (International Facade Design and Construction) - HS - OWL University of Applied Sciences, Germany
By IFDC International Facade Design and Construction: Our facade master course (IFDC) is providing the current technologies and the high functional demand in the faced field; we are achieving this through a close cooperation with companies and manufacturers specialized in facade. Therefore, our blog will present our master course and what we are doing in this program.
Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe
Architecture is...
By RGX_MERCADO: I come across very interesting studies and experiments in general context, that can be applied to architecture and design in creative ways. From Autodesk research and development Articles, innovative technology to control Arduino, to my opinions and analysis on the influence of Tadao Ando's architecture in Mexico. My objective is to push the boundaries of research and development borrowing from professional field's in and outside of architecture, as well as sharing current research and work.
Infamous Lines - Seminar and Summit
By Annie McCarthy: The technique of drawing is a very distinct architectural element. As Architects, we draw lines for notions of aesthetic, concept, as well as production. Drawing is considered an extension of our thoughts (concept) and vessel to communicate our ideas (technique). Every drawing however has imbedded in it a signature, expression, and authenticity. What is the relationship between lines and our individual design ideologies?
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
Brutal Me
By Jesse Anderson: Mainly a brutalist architecture blog but also a outlet and petri dish for my bottled up architectural thoughts
No Master - A peer driven "Master's Degree" study program.
By Christine Pierron: No Master is a concept for a peer driven study program aiming to capture the benefits of an accredited master’s program without the school. Aimed at working architects and design professionals who wish to develop their professional growth.

No Master - play on words:
1 Architects (master builders) without a master’s degree.
2 No school or teachers but but a peer review process, no masters just students
3 Ronin - masterless samurai, term for a secondary school graduate not admitted to university.
Columbia University GSAPP (Kim)

By Kimberly V.K.H. Nguyen: This is a journal of my adventures at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) as I pursue my M.Arch degree.

It includes images of my projects, classmates' work, some thoughts, and grad-student daily life. : This is a journal of my adventures at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) as I pursue my M.Arch degree.

It includes images of my projects, classmates' work, some thoughts, and grad-student daily life.
Columbia University
spatial awareness
By Oakhay: the relationships between objects in space, the adjacency of one object to another, transitions from space to space, the dynamics or contrasts between materials, the human scale of built environments, the creation of open or closed boundaries, etc. etc. etc. . .
Sense of Space - Interior Design and Management company
By Victoria Stepanov, Assoc. IIDA: In this blog I will be writing about my past and present projects accenting any details I find interesting
Pratt Institute (Kevin)
By Kevin Griendling:
Pratt Institute
Knowlton School of Architecture, Antoinette - Adventures from Architecture Grad School
By adbelson: I am a graduate student at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University. My studies are a blend of theoretical and conceptual design with an emphasis on human spatial experience.

In this blog I will attempt to provide an in depth look at what it is like to be a graduate student at Knowlton School of Architecture. In addition, I will share insight on life as an M.Arch Grad Student in Columbus in their 20 somethings.
The Ohio State University
A Wild Cadence - Design Discovery on Two Wheels and Steel
By Matthew Geldin: Living measures across the landscapes of Earth, rolling along the asphalt incision of world wilderness. Exploring the diversity of global urbanism from the ground. An intimately personal inquiry of lifestyle and limits, architecture and agriculture, organization and entropy, climate and cosmos.

Point of embarcation: Los Angeles, California.
First Destination: Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Final Destination: Unknown.

"I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious." _Einstein
tekton - exploring sculptural and architectural fabrication
By ncecchi: A blog covering the various processes, methods, and pitfalls involved in designing, producing, and fabricating large scale sculptural and architectural features.
Demiurge Design LLC
Städelschule Architecture Class (Frankfurt, Germany)

By Ayax Abreu: A little description of the experiments, lectures and architectural discourse that is currently happening at the SAC...
Visit www.staedelschule.de/architecture/: A little description of the experiments, lectures and architectural discourse that is currently happening at the SAC...
Visit www.staedelschule.de/architecture/
Städelschule Architecture Class
Bartlett (Chris)
By Chris Hildrey:
University College London (UCL)
University of Tennessee (Samuel)

By Samuel Mortimer: School blog of BArch student Samuel Mortimer kept from 2008 - 2011. Mostly late-night musings of the studio, but with an emphasis of the events of the College of Architecture and Design and University of Tennessee on the whole.

Later blogs discuss participation in the New Norris House project, as both a student and researcher hired after graduation.: School blog of BArch student Samuel Mortimer kept from 2008 - 2011. Mostly late-night musings of the studio, but with an emphasis of the events of the College of Architecture and Design and University of Tennessee on the whole.

Later blogs discuss participation in the New Norris House project, as both a student and researcher hired after graduation.
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
BEZOAR

By Javier Arbona-Homar: A bezoar is a mass of disparate pieces and materials. For this blog, you will find something somewhere between tweet-length posts and tumblelogging; inchoate thoughts; provocations and assorted scraps that don't fit anyplace else; criticisms of a political and geographic variety; ecoaffective ramblings; spatial imaginaries that don't conform. On Twitter: @AlJavieera; 1/3rd of @Demilit; bookmarked content: @AJFavorite.: A bezoar is a mass of disparate pieces and materials. For this blog, you will find something somewhere between tweet-length posts and tumblelogging; inchoate thoughts; provocations and assorted scraps that don't fit anyplace else; criticisms of a political and geographic variety; ecoaffective ramblings; spatial imaginaries that don't conform. On Twitter: @AlJavieera; 1/3rd of @Demilit; bookmarked content: @AJFavorite.

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