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Reflections of my Duplexity - The Story of Dual-Masters
By sdonnelly: The reflections, recollections, and insights from the viewpoint of a dual-masters student here at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture. My three year journey to obtain a Masters of Architecture and a Master of Urban Design has brought me, and will continue to take me, through some of the most incredible, toughest, happiest, and satisfying moments and experiences of my life. Please join me through the wanderlust that is my design and academic expedition.
University of Michigan
'Architecture' as a 'Thinking'
By Pranav Varshney: Architecture is all about thinking. The more you think about the solutions of any architectural problem, the more architectural feelings you will get to design .Thinking depends upon the perception & perception gradually increases with experiences. Just because of acquiring some personal opinion, we architects generally thought some quotes to define the architecture. Here my perspective & my personal quote is " architecture is a shadow ".
I like to create my blog to spread my thinking to world.
Future Space - by David Lehman, HUSH
By David Lehman: An exploration of the worlds of design and architecture, showcasing how the industry’s push toward tech driven, multidisciplinary approaches will ultimately come to define the spaces in which we work, live, buy, interact, and find inspiration.
HUSH
Stuck in Studio* - A Student Blog by Alyssa Fellabaum
By alyssafellabaum: A digital repository for my experiences and thoughts as a UG3/UG4 undergraduate student at the University of Michigan Taubman College.

University of Michigan
The Becoming Digital Blog
By meganmohney: This blog will follow student experiences during the BECOMING DIGITAL workshops this semester at Taubman College. Organized by Ellie Abrons and Adam Fure, the program will invite 3 design practices to run a weekend-long experiment, project, or research.

The invited designers are Jon May + Zeina Koreitem of MILLIONS, Curtis Roth, and Vivian Lee + James Macgillivray of LAMAS. This semester will be devoted to investigating and challenging the digital environment in which live and work.
University of Michigan
Untitled_WIP - A Student Blog by Jordan Laurila
By Laurila: Details, impressions, and all those in between memories deserve a voice. It just so happens architecture school has given me a lot of those. I am a 3-Year Masters of Architecture student at Taubman College at the University of Michigan, and we'll see where this gets us.
University of Michigan
A State Of Architecture
By deepshah1991: This is something I intend to start as a platform to express my perception and interaction with architecture where by using my thoughts, observations, photos i click etc as a medium to express on frequent basis.
The Familiar Typology - The Suburbs of London, Tokyo and Buenos Aires
By nugent_denise_: As part of the Cavin Family Traveling Scholarship, this blog aims to research the suburban condition as they exist in different contexts: London, England; Tokyo, Japan; and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The prolificacy of suburbia, internationally, serves as a physical archive of domestic norms, political ambitions and topographical responses. This research seeks to decipher how cultural and historical standards have formalized themselves within the familiar context of the suburban home.
The Psychology of Architecture and Design
By dennisleigh: This blog is about the interdependence of our state of mind and the built environment. Different life experiences can be turned into metaphors and then, transformed into shapes and colors that affect how we live our lives.
Constellations of Tijuana
By Orhan Ayyüce: Constellations of Tijuana:
A research study in Urbanism
Old stories, new finds, physical and fictional speculations
Studies of various grid collisions and political ideologies
Planned and spontaneous explorations
Creative and generative recording and the study of the city

ELA, Escuela Libre De Arquitectura
Tijuana, Mexico
June - August 2017
Orhan Ayyüce
360 ° Livable Urbanism - The Importance of Making Cities Places - Planning towards livable cities
By Mikkel Sølbeck: 360 ° Livable Urbanism is featuring articles with subjective approaches and theories on how to actively contribute as urban planners in today’s modern society with different thematic inputs to sustain and innovate the way we as highly diverse planners facilitate the process of planning towards sustainable cities in balance with the current policy framework, sectors, interest and other relevant aspects.
Newton's Notes
By Erin Sharp Newton: Architecture, Design, Humanity,
Mental Health, Behavioral Health,
HealthCare Matters
Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health
Imaginary Constructions: Architecture In Fictional Media
By sonairun: The purpose is to examine the architecture within fictional printed and digital environments, (i.e. Video Games, Movies, Graphic Novels, Comics, etc.) in order to provide a different perspective on the built environment, as well as providing insights into how power structures, societal issues, and/or other issues of the built environment are portrayed within these media.
Thirty-five & 5 - A continuing journey
By TAB1006: This is an account of my journey towards licensure, the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. At 35, many people, including myself at times, doubt that completion of the journey I started nearly a decade ago can be obtained. But here I am, with 2 years of school and all of my internship ahead of me, finally working in a firm after escaping the world of retail. May these thoughts serve as inspiration for those in doubt, encourage supportive wisdom, and of course, an outlet for frustration!
The Vacuum - Architecture and Criticism
By RUBEN CABANILLAS RAMOS: Go through your favorites architectural daily sources, pass the vacuum, open the Vacuum Bag and voila! we will have enough provocative material to start political, cultural, philosophical and sustainable discussion regarding postmodernism trends in architecture terminology. A several blog entries that will try to filter some current overrated architectural terminologies such as Public Space,or the most common: Green Strategies.
Creations and Analysis Out of Boredom
By I am a liberal: Boredom as a result of too much to do. Too much professional practice architecture. Too much reality. Lots of fiction and lots of history.
Radio Architect
By Farzam Kharvari: As the world is developing its way of communication, we, the architects need to be more curious on stuff around us!
Rise of different philosophies around the globe, rapid growth in our awareness, transformation of communication types and many more items around are leading the ARCHITECTURE to an absolute new brand of its roots!
It is time to ask: are we, the TRANSFORMERS or are we the results of TRANSFORMATIONS of GENIUS LOCUS (the protective spirit of a place)?
Elemental Urbanism
By James Pereira: I often wonder if all cities should be shaped like Rome; a city that is enourmous yet walkable with all paths leading to monumental icons. Many major cities now look as merely a cemetery of parts; buildings, gridded streets, and parks creating a cityscape of cluster. Even an individual apartment building can be looked at similarly to a microscopic level. This is due to evolution, program, and constraints which alltogether create elements that limit possibility.
AIAS UNM Chapter - Why UNM SA+P?
By AIAS: Want to know if UNM SA+P is the right school for you? Stay tuned as the 2016-2017 UNM AIAS board delves into what life is like within and beyond the walls of the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning. From the greater Southwest to our own studio culture and family, this blog series will highlight just some of what makes the UNM SA+P experience so unique.
The University of New Mexico
DISRUPT/VE - AN AD-HOC APPROACH TO DIGITAL COMPUTATION
By Austin Samson: Using an Ad-Hoc approach to digital computation, new coherency between architectural elements can be discovered. History has shown that certain techniques or processes are capable of solving problems that they were not originally intended to solve. Nicholas De Monchaux has outlined many of these scenarios in his novel "Space Suit". By researching processes of making that are external to typical architecture, designers can generate relationships between existing an new formal qualities.
off-NARRATIVES: - Off-Modern Detours in Architecture and Thought
By Patrick McAndrews: off-NARRATIVES: is a space for the exploration of detours in architecture and design discourse. The blog's inception is in alignment with the "off-modern" perspective; drawing from the works and teachings of the Svetlana Boym among other writers and thinkers in the 20th and 21st centuries. off-NARRATIVES: seeks to contribute to contemporary architectural discourse through observations, essays, book reviews, serial narratives, and other works of original research and theory.
The Socratic Method - Questioning Our Assumptions About Design
By Sean Joyner, Laura Kazmierczak: This blog explores ideas about design and how it relates to our lives through research and critical thinking. As the title suggests this will be a platform to present thought provoking ideas intended for further discussion.
Keimyung University - Architecture & Architectural Engineering
By henrytsangarchitect: This blog will track and highlight the activities at Keimyung University's College of Architecture of both departments of Architecture and Architectural Engineering. Keimyung University is based in the city of Daegu in South Korea.
Keimyung University
The Architecture Critic - Separating Truth from Propaganda
By Eric Wynkoop: As a recent master of architecture graduate, and a designer with 11 years of professional experience, I have many ideas about what great design is. I like starting conversations about what I see and others can agree or contribute their opinions.
The Architectural Imagination Exhibition Fellows - The U.S. Department of State selected University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning to organize the exhibition of the U.S. Pavilion in the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale (May 28-Nov. 27). Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon are Co-Curators of the U.S. Pavilion, The Architectural Imagination (www.thearchitecturalimagination.org).
By lacroixa, Kristen Gandy, Diana Tsai, Rubin Quarcoopome, Ramon Hernandez, Salam Rida, Christopher Locke: Six Taubman College M.Arch students were selected to assist the curators of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale in installing The Architectural Imagination. The students will travel to Venice for one month as Exhibition Fellows. They will serve as docents for the opening days of the exhibition. This blog is about their experience working on the 2016 U.S. Pavilion and in Venice.

Students:
Kristen Gandy
Ramon Hernandez
Christopher Locke
Rubin Quarcoopome
Salam Rida
Diana Tsai
University of Michigan
AA Visiting School Los Angeles - L.A. Experiential Part II
By Eulalia Moran: L.A. Experiential II builds on last year’s edition and on Los Angeles’ role as the world’s entertainment capital.

Students will continue exploring new forms of spatial experiences for the media, entertainment, and music festival venues with the added element of virtual reality and will use sound to simulate virtual environments.

ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN + TECHNOLOGY + MUSIC
Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA)
Status - Where we're coming from...
By jlgordon: Exploring current design trends and their history.
Jack L. Gordon Architects
Design Haus
By Designhaus Architecture: This blog would pertain to more of what architecture and design is and how it's slowly changing. There are also professional ways on what design is, and how to achieve and accomplish these things such as how one can make their building more attractive. I'll share my content about how architecture has taken a step into the abstract, as more architects try to steer away from the normal to step outside the box.
Designhaus Architecture
ArchViz - Architecture Visualization, Conceptual Design, Collective Experience
By hanafi muhamads: The entire unfolding of the plot is a philosophical exploration of all the consequences of that idea – art, architecture and design

It will start with this, as well as spreading my ideas and exploration in design. the blog will slowly be filled as my career goes on till the day i becoming professional architect
MARA University of Technology
Green.Beautiful.Alive - Simple views into the green realm of plants.
By KJohn: Born from passion Green.Beautiful.Alive describes the natural realm that surrounds us in all its beauty, all its complexity.
Evolution sculpted the most beautiful architect and designer, the one that realized this extraordinary realm that surrounds us, that around us to live, that allows us to feel alive.

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