What Europe Can (and Can’t) Tell the US About Architectural Licensure

2024-06-06T14:37:00-04:00

In the third part of Archinect In-Depth: Licensure, we reflect on what the United States can learn from the architecture licensure models of other nations. While doing so, we speak with Peggy Deamer, Professor Emerita of Yale University's School of Architecture, whose book Architecture and Labor includes an analysis on how the wider U.S. architecture profession compares to those of France, Germany, and Sweden.

Mia Lundström is Blurring Local and Global, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Planning with the Kalejdohill Project

2017-06-13T12:15:00-04:00

In today’s hyper-digitized environment, the local and the global aren’t so easily defined. Just search ‘locals only’ on Instagram, for example, and you’ll find photos tagged from around the world. So it’s only fitting that urban planning projects, when seeking to activate a new social space, should blur the lines as well. “Democracy in an age of social media, digitalizations, migration etc. asks for so many upgrades—how to plan cities is one of them,” states Mia Lundström, an urban planner and the Project Director of Kalejdohill, an initiative meant to activate a locality in a suburb outside of Stockholm years in advance of a future development.

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What Europe Can (and Can’t) Tell the US About Architectural Licensure

Mia Lundström is Blurring Local and Global, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Planning with the Kalejdohill Project