Demar Matthews penned a reflection on A Black Architecture Education Experience. Therein he explains "I am the only student in my class who has to work full-time, 50 hours a week at least and sometimes more spread among 4 jobs...That means 55 hours a week are being taken away from me developing as a student and as an architect. That is also 55 hours a week less than my classmates who are able to study and complete work. So, what will my portfolio look like compared to my classmates/competition?"
Most commentators were inspired and/or saw their own experience expressed in his writing. Many encouraged him to reach out to and work with AIA, NOMA and other leadership organizations.
Plus, Mackenzie Goldberg got to know Future Firm, the Chicago-Based Practice Calling on Architects to Visualize Vibrant New Futures. chemex was impressed "architects are the only people approaching/changing the built world critically. I hope future firms get support — there’s not enough criticality in the public sphere."
As you might expect the fire of Notre Dame and its aftermath was a hot topic.
Early on volunteer thought "Macron's plan to have the Notre Dame restoration finished by the Paris 2024 Olympics was about as misguided as you can get." Prophetically Miles Jaffe claimed he couldn’t "wait to see the starchitect proposals." He didn't have long to wait. Dangermouse felt the "only person i'd trust is david chipperfield" and for Marc Miller "restore the to what point?" since the structure "has seen a lot of change over timelot of change over time. Is the last image the most appropriate" was the key question.
Examining Peter Zumthor's newest plans for the LACMA campus, LA Times writer Christopher Knight, questioned "With a reduced building plan now, LACMA is offering less art for more money. Is an Incredible Shrinking Museum really worthy of taxpayer support?" thisisnotmyname completely agreed "It's becoming more and more obvious that the design hopelessly ignores the functional needs of the museum."
Following initial criticism, when additional new renderings came out, Shane Reiner-Roth asked "Do previous criticisms still ring true when faced against the details newly present in these images?" To Will Galloway
"The only critique that makes sense...so far is that there is not enough space for showing the collection, which would be a silly thing to do." Yet he suggested"That may or may not be true, depending on the curation. There could be some wilful blindness going on with the people pitching the project, or it might just that the critics are being too pedestrian. Honestly my intuition is the latter, but I reserve the right to be unsurprised that the former is true."
After seeing Ruby City, the new museum in Texas by Adjaye Associates, curtisshields reflected on previous dogfights with a "precast concrete manufacturer over color accuracy and uniformity" writing "I really like the use of naturally colored materials to produce the red colors - not just because it's cool/neat, but also because it sets a more attainable expectation for the color variation in precast concrete panels."
R.I.P. Francois Perrin, beloved architect, father, and friend.
The Stealth Building in New York, NY by WORKac and QUAD HOUSE in Beijing, China by ARCHISTRY design&research office are just two of latest top images (in no particular order) from the Archinect Pinterest board Old+New.
Episode #104 of The Midnight Charette, David and Marina focused on; choosing the right undergraduate architecture school, quarter vs semesters programs, universities vs architecture-only schools, architecture curricula, faculty members and school leadership, study abroad programs, if a 'name brand' institution degree will get you more money when you graduate, school sizes, location and more.
In late April, Sagar Chitrakar was working on a "Vacation getaway in Playa Pelada , Costa Rica" while by early May, Carl Burdick was "finishing up" a "New interior wall panel project".
To coincide with the eponymous exhibit, Storefront for Art and Architecture presented Tyranny Trail guided and self-guided tours. Photos from the multiple events can be viewed over at their Flickr account. Of the opening and the walking tours led by Ingrid Burrington and by John Michael Kilbane.
Jaime Bautista put out ‘Unbridled’ an Open Call for Art. The submission deadline is July 1, 11:59pm.
"This open call is directed at architects who want to present their inner imagination without limitations...no holds barred! The art must be architectural in nature, no matter how bizarre or removed from the laws of physics or reality and represent a habitable structure of some kind. Let your imagination go! Open to all media types"
If you are a Senior Architect looking for a new position, the City of Cincinnati is hiring and so is COOKFOX Architects. Or MAD Architects seeks "a Senior Architect as Project Architect to head our talented teams on ambitious medium to large scale projects" to work out of their "growing" LA office.
Jessica Coleman has resurrected an old school-blog. The last post in 2012 read "have to go back and finish my M.Arch degree next year...the whole idea did not thrill me. I contemplated even going to law or medical school. But like the old ex-boyfriend that will not go away, me and architecture are stuck like glue."
PennDesign provided a recap of a two-day conference titled Architectural Theory Now? Reading it we we learn
"participants returned again and again to questions of theory’s purpose: To what degree should architectural theory refine the practice of architecture and to what degree should it push past practice and engage with larger theoretical problems?"
Sarah Whiting, an illustrious scholar and practitioner with degrees from Yale, Princeton and a Ph.D. in architectural history, theory, and criticism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is the new dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design.
If you are looking to get your foot in the door in academia, UNM Department of Architecture, has multiple Visiting Assistant Professorships; in both Architectural Design and Architectural History and Theory.
B.ByAnds started a thread to get feedback on how to pull off a Career Refresh and move into more of "a design-oriented role". The consensus was that while "definitely employable" and marketable due to BIM and "leadership or construction experience" they might have to "look into a smaller firm" where the roles aren't so separated or blended. Further they SHOULD NOT "burn up the next 3-6 months on portfolio refreshing."
With the news that Sarah Whiting would be leaving Rice for GSD, placemaker worried for the "trajectory of the school without her...Would you go into a 3.5 year M.Arch having no idea who is going to be leading the program (or even when they will find someone to take over)?"
After getting some more details, thisisnotmyname counseled "You are being given a free ride at a top school. Take it." Bloopox added "Personally I wouldn't base a decision on a dean search - I lived through 3 of them during my undergrad+grad years".
alicechuhuigooi, a self-proclaimed "young archi student", necro’d velo’s 13 year old thread about Worst Crits. So 3tk shared an apocryphal story, involving a 3 hour "debate over theory". As well as personal memories of "Faculty ripping models" in order to teach detachment.
Finally, jla-x wanted to hear about The one that got away aka "What was the one most devastating project that could have been". archanonymous regretted an "ecologically-sensitive scheme" for "a new university-centric town center in Mexico" turned basically "an air-conditioned mall". While tduds offered a tale set in Portland Oregon that resulted in the "budget-faux-modernism that's taking over every American urban area." Others, of lost 20+ story buildings. jla-x meanwhile reminisced of "a very beautiful old home" and "The kind of client you wish for".
Léopold Lambert aka the Funambulist, responded to a couple of recent Dezeen news/opinion pieces on unpaid internships, unpaid labor and disciplinary dilemmas. As he reminded us all
"the global system of colonial, racist, and capitalist violence could simply not operate the way it does without the active contribution of architects."
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