Elevate your Zoom meeting game with these virtual backgrounds from architectural photographers

2020-05-19T13:51:00-04:00

Since the sudden transition to working from home and remote learning/teaching earlier this year, online gatherings via Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet have become standard business routine for most of us.

But what about some privacy? Not having to share the interior of your own residence (including that unsightly pile of unfolded laundry in the corner) with everyone? How about some custom — and architectural, of course — backgrounds for your online meeting tool of choice?

Do we have news for you.

In our recent roundup of interviews with architectural photographers, How the Pandemic Is Impacting Architectural Photography, we learned more about their pandemic coping strategies and also generously received images that Archinect's readers are free to use as backdrops.

Marc Goodwin (UK)

"I don't know whether all of my shoots planned this year have just been postponed or are now completely washed away. I suppose my clients are in a similar situation, as are most photographers."

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Architecture educators weigh in on the new remote learning paradigm

2020-04-15T14:17:00-04:00

This is the first installment of a narrative survey of educators around the globe on the challenges of the massive move to online teaching. Some challenges are practical and logistical; others are more conceptual, political, and even philosophical, involving the importance of campus community, the role of schools in providing for the wellbeing of students, and passionate convictions about the nature of learning and the transmission of knowledge.

Places Journal, which recently took a hiatus from its regular publishing schedule in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has gathered perspectives from leading architectural educators offering their takes on what some of the challenges and concerns are for the period moving forward as design education necessarily becomes more online oriented.

The piece includes comments from Dr. Harriet Harriss, Dean of the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, Reinhold Martin, Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, and Susan Piedmont-Palladino professor of architecture at the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech, among others.

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Elevate your Zoom meeting game with these virtual backgrounds from architectural photographers

Architecture educators weigh in on the new remote learning paradigm