Sean Smith completed the third (and final?) in a series of articles about the The Life of a New Architect, in which Jim Bogle reflected on the best part of the of actually working in architecture

 "That's an easy one: meeting a deadline. Meeting a deadline is like taking a bite out of your favorite food after staring at it for 10 hours".

Plus, for the latest installment  of Working out of the Box Archinect talked with Linda Bennett, co-founder of Architact Collective. Therein she explains "What I took away from architecture school flowed immediately into the architecture industry before expanding, evolving and flowing into my current career as a jeweler….Moving on (aka quitting my job in the architecture industry) is precisely what allows me to be where I am at this moment".

News
Amelia Taylor-Hochberg Editorial Manager for Archinect announced "Archinect Sessions", a new weekly podcast hosted by Archinect's founder and publisher, Paul Petrunia and her. For the first episode they were joined by co-hosts Donna Sink and Ken Koense, and special guest Lian Chikako Chang!

midlander offered up a suggestion "I like the idea of a panel discussion of current news. 70+ minutes is a bit long to listen through though - any thoughts on condensing this?" though Chris Teeter countered "I don't think the format is bad, a quick cover of the archinect news, blogs, etc...the main topic is most the meat and 70 minutes is fine...its better than posting while at work".

Oliver Wainwright reviewed plans for Sleuk Rith Institute "a vast archive of documents about the Cambodian genocide" to be designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. sameolddoctor chimed in "I like this more than most of her work. Not sure if Cambodia needs a bullshit museum, over other more important things".

Felicia Fonseca with the Associated Press noted the National Trust for Historic Preservation recently designated, the Petrified Forest compound (by Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander), a national treasure because of its architectural significance. jla-x was impressed "Really fantastic building...the location ain't too shabby either.  Anyone who salivates over beautiful materials should visit this park.   petrified wood is possibly the most beautiful material nature ever created".

Reading Amelia’s coverage of the Atlantic’s CityLab 2014 conference (which focused on "the sharing economy") led Donna Sink to respond "Personally, I don't trust Uber or Lyft and likely never will.  Maybe it's because for the last 45 years of my life I've been told not to get into a car with a stranger.  I think the sharing economy has seriously different implications for women and men, and I think this aspect has been mostly ignored".
 

Firms/Blogs/Work Updates
Soon Joann Lui, LEED Green Assoc., will be starting the third job in here 3 jobs (small, medium, well-known international) post-graduation plan, working in Gensler NY!

bragabond who you may remember took a "fantastical-sounding job" to move to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia provided an update - "Since my arrival in Riyadh, I've learned not to take pictures; they are extremely zealous of privacy...yes; the pay is good, the work is challenging, and you live in an isolated world"

Kimberly Macaluso recently worked on "Tugendhat House Analysis - Site Plan" while Franco Chen worked on Pieces of a model, or diverse urban catalog?

Lian Chikako Chang live-blogged (sort of) the start first of six free sessions she will take to learn how to be part of San Francisco’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team.
 

School/Blogs
Martin Dolejsova at GSAPP shared a few "small observations" drawn from two lectures at the beginning of the school year. First, Pritzker Prize winner Kazuyo Sejima and then environmental journalist Naomi Klein and landscape architect Kate Orff.

Rory and the rest of Studio 19 worked on cladding, preparing for an Engineer inspection of their efforts on the "steel reinforcing in the pre cast concrete slab" and shared Details of the "pre cast concrete..floor of the bathroom and laundry".

jp88 reported in from the University of Miami where Matteo Ghidoni lectured on "Devices in the City".

amlocke made the case for deciding to enroll in Harvard’s Master in Design Studies in Real Estate and the Built Environment (MDesS REBE) and laid out their course of study.
 

Discussions/Threads
as go do it understands phenomenology "in Architecture relates to your sensory reaction to built space. Or more simply how does the building or space make you feel". Olaf Design Ninja_ suggested "Architect list: Juhani Pallasmaa, Steven Holl.....Philosopher list: Edmund Husserl, Merleau Ponty.....that should get you started" but 3tk argued "Merleau-Ponty is popular among environmentalists, but his writing (and to some extent his logic and interpretation of Husserl) is suspect".

Later gwharton continued "Husserl's basic philosophical approach was a kind of outgrowth of and reaction to logical positivism...As for the connection between philosophic and architectural phenomenology, it's quite explicit. Michael Benedikt (a major exponent of architectural phenomenology - his 1992 book, 'For an Architecture of Reality' is seminal in this movement)".

hynzla wants to know exactly what "specific technologies", Tom Wiscombe uses for Surface Modeling. Olaf Design Ninja_ could "think of multiple ways of doing this in 3dsmax with built-in commands but want to make sure" and in the past chigurh has used "some cloth commands/functions in maya, where you could drape a surface over another framework and it would conform to the framework based on specific cloth parameters and gravity settings in the software".

At a keynote presentation by Johnsen-Schmaling Architects at AIA Indiana-Kentucky Convention last week Donna Sink heard Gold Medal winner Wayne Schmidt of Schmidt Associates set forth a Mentorship Challenge. 

Carrera related "local AIA recently sent out an email to all pushing us to go to the schools programs and network and mentor. I wrote the guy back and said ‘Mentor who?’ – I said ‘I’d do it, just send me somebody’. You know what? That was almost a year ago and nothing, nobody". For his part Will Galloway feels "that the world of architecture is changing and old models are not that helpful anymore. My old boss is feeling that too but for him its not such a problem.  In that way it would be more interesting to hear from my peers than from my predecessors. We do that a bit. Not enough".

tint answered the challenge "I'm actively mentoring a young social entrepreneur...helping her understand land use policies and teaching her how to manage complicated messy projects with many stakeholders".