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Reflections on Academia - Woodbury University SoA
By Sean Joyner: My reflections, thoughts, ideas, and observations during my time working and teaching at Woodbury School of Architecture in Burbank, CA.
Woodbury University
#BACbuzz - The latest news and events happening at the Boston Architectural College
By thebacboston: The #BACbuzz blog will help to inform, educate, and share relevant and noteworthy architectural and design news happening within the Boston Architectural College and around the Boston community.
Summer School at the Architectural Association, London - Create, Make, Design, Invent and Share with us.
By Natashsa Sandmeier: This blog is for the Summer School at the Architectural Association- a program that brings together students from 18 years old and up. The full-time three-week course presents a challenging programme of design studios, field study, seminars and lectures. It offers participants a range of diverse design approaches, agendas and techniques, and represents a uniquely intensive and intimate environment that aims to expand formal and intellectual resources. The course is aimed creative minds.
Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA)
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
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
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
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
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)
Miss Misc.

By Jamie Evelyn Goldsborough: A collection of perspectives, rememberings, and thoughts as a dual Master of Architecture + Master of Arts Design Criticism graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago.: A collection of perspectives, rememberings, and thoughts as a dual Master of Architecture + Master of Arts Design Criticism graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
University of Illinois Chicago
Collections & Curations - A Repository
By Saba Salekfard, Parker Ammann, Kyat Chin, Kirill Volchinskiy: Investigating architecture's ability to reach a broader culture.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
D L S | Design Lab SARUP - university of wisconsin-milwaukee's fall 2015 chicago studios (Historic Preservation & BIM)
By mgamberg: Updates from the Chicago studios & design lab of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Design. BIM Studio & Historic Preservation Studio investigations into Chicago's Future of the Past.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Responsive Engagement : The Production of a Green Chile-Fueled Architecture
By unmsaap: Responsive Engagement is the official blog of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. Here students, faculty and alumni describe the production of an engaged architecture, one that responds to the social, environmental, and economic challenges we all face- as well as the IPAs and enchiladas that fuel the pursuit.
The University of New Mexico
RIGHT NOW - Join us at SCI-Arc for a glimpse of the NOW
By sciarcnews: RIGHT NOW is a 2-day symposium hosted by SCI-Arc on September 25-26, 2015 on the school's campus in downtown Los Angeles. The event will take stock of some of the most promising directions in contemporary architecture, using the conversation as its primary catalyst. www.sciarc.edu
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
The City and The Water - Architecture arts ad self construction experiences for a new artisan area in Pietrasanta, Italy
By zeropiu: “The City and the Water” Summer School is organized by the University of Pisa (DESTeC, Long Cycle Master Degree Course in Architectural Engineering), the Visual Art Center of Pietrasanta and the Municipality of Pietrasanta (Tuscany, Italy), with the contribution of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca.
The Summer School, that will take place from 7th to 20th September 2015 at the Visual Arts Center, will see students in Architecture, Engineering, Design, Art Schools and young professionals
University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Interior Design 420 - Interior Design Internship
By Tim Dolan, hstarnes, pterry3, rmingle1: This will be the community Blog for IDS 420 Summer 2016. Students will post their responses to weekly Journal Assignments here as well as view posts/comments from other participants.
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
The Architecture of Houston - The Most Notable Pieces of Architecture in Houston
By Mathew Duran: This blog is dedicated to the wonderful architecture of Houston, both historical, and present. It will describe general design details of the most influential and monumental works of architecture, as well as their historical backgrounds and precedents.
University of Houston
Pennzoil Place: Reflections and Parallels
By Kaylan: I will be writing about Pennzoil Place, located in Houston Texas. This includes the history surrounding the building, design concepts, and the economics of building. Enjoy!
University of Houston
BG Group Place: An architectural dynamo - by Christian Garcia
By cgarcia47: This semester I worked on an article on BG Group Place, designed by Pickard Chilton, and the effects it had on downtown Houston, Texas.This skyscraper was designed and built in the middle of the 2008 recession. The LEED Platinum certified building replaced a much blighted block on Main Street filled with drugs and prostitution. With the completion of the project, the developer Hines proved Houston could overcome the recession, and the 800 block of Main Street could once again prosper.
University of Houston
Rothko Chapel - The History and the Design Interpretations
By ykevin98: I will be discussing about the Rothko Chapel and the design concepts of the building design. It will be a discussion about Rothko's intentional ideas of the kind of layout the Rothko Chapel has. I will also be describing the relationship between Rothko's paintings and the Chapel itself.
University of Houston
Adventures of the architecture student
By Peter Foniciello: You probably know what it is like to be a university student, but do you know what it is actually like being an architecture student?
Here, you will read about the wonderful world of architecture, and live the adventures through the lens of the architecture student!
University of Houston
Izmir University of Economics Department of Architecture
By Michael Young, Melis Baloglu: The Department of Architecture is a part of the Izmir University of Economics, the first private university in Izmir, Turkey's 3rd largest metropolitan area. The school seeks to be a vibrant and vital source for design thought and creation in Turkey.
Izmir University of Economics
School of Architecture and Urban Planning/UWMilwaukee - Vignettes of life at SARUP
By NBouchard: Each semester, SARUP turns into a beehive of creative activity, with the collective energy of students and faculty resulting in projects and presentations that excite and intrigue, as they generate enquiry into the disciplines of architecture and urban planning. This blog is an attempt to give a glimpse of our life.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
FIU School of Architecture News - FIU College of Architecture + The Arts
By Brian Rivera, FIUSOA: The School of Architecture is composed of three closely aligned departments: Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Landscape Architecture. Jointly headed by the three department chairs, the School of Architecture provides a rich and diverse platform for interdisciplinary activities at the curricular and research levels.
Florida International University
Advanced Design Studies - The University of Tokyo - Chronicling work, research and life in Kantō
By ha_ch, parcspace: A student blog dedicated to ongoing happenings in and outside the Advanced Design Studies Program at the University of Tokyo.
University of Tokyo
"Suspects" in the Studio - Increasing Diversity in Design Education
By Derek Ham: The recent cases involving Mike Brown in Ferguson and Garner in New York all continue to illuminate how many people view Blacks (and especially Black men) in America. Architecture schools cannot avoid this discussion as many schools still have staggering low numbers of Black and other underrepresented minority students in their programs. I want to help us talk about these issues as we continue to try making our learning environments (the design studio) welcoming for people of all walks of life.
The Dirty South - New Orleans - Masters Studio with Jennifer Bonner
By Stefann Plishka: The second installation of The Dirty South studio with Jennifer Bonner at Georgia Tech takes on New Orleans. Using the legacy of Dirty South hip hop as inspiration within the framework of a guidebook of B-side tours, students investigated unusual patterns and idiosyncrasies in the city. Projects spanned topics from misuse of Charles Moore's Piazza d'Italia to reappropriation of the city's most controversial monuments to installation of an illegal auction house within the convention center.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
Advanced Design Studies, The University of Tokyo
By UTokyoADS: Founded in 2014, TーADS was established to contribute to and enhance state of the art architectural design education while cultivating architectural culture in Japan. Going beyond the legacy of Japanese pedagogy in which research is conducted in separate laboratories, TーADS is composed of interdisciplinary laboratory platforms with specific concentrations (fabrication, prototyping, media, computation, urbanism).
University of Tokyo
Taking Shape - Life and Design in the Graduate School of Architecture at UIC
By Eugene Murphy: This blog will document the projects and discourse that come out of UIC's graduate studio, from the perspective of a first year graduate student.
University of Illinois Chicago

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