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Noémie Despland-Lichtert

Noémie Despland-Lichtert

Los Angeles, CA, US

 
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Noémie Despland-Lichtert is an urban historian, curator, educator and hot-dog mapper. 

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Archinect's guide to the Architecture Graduate School Application - Part Three: Choose Your Advisor, Tue, Nov 7 '17

Choosing advisors is one of the most important decisions you can make in grad school. In the last piece in our three-part guide to the Architecture Graduate School Application, in partnership with Study Architecture, we offer some advice on how to choose the right advisor.

Archinect's guide to the Architecture Graduate School Application - Part Three: Choose Your Advisor
 

Archinect's guide to the Architecture Graduate School Application - Part Two: Do Your Research , Mon, Nov 6 '17

We have partnered with Study Architecture to create a three-part guide to the Architecture Graduate School Application process. On Friday we shared part one, which focused on identifying one's interests. Today, we are sharing part two, focused on researching potential schools.

Archinect's guide to the Architecture Graduate School Application - Part Two: Do Your Research
 

Archinect's guide to the Architecture Graduate School Application - Part One: Identify Your Interest , Fri, Nov 3 '17

Applying to graduate school is no easy task! Cost, location, professors, programs, resources, and funding are just a few of many things one needs to take into account while navigating the numerous options out there. Hoping to help future graduate students with the application process, Archinect ...

Archinect's guide to the Architecture Graduate School Application - Part One: Identify Your Interest
 

Screen/Print #64: Pedro Bandeira Narrates His Field Trip to Arcosanti , Wed, Oct 18 '17

In 2012, Pedro Bandeira, architect and professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Minho, travelled to Arcosanti with a class of architecture students. In 2012 Arcosanti, the educator recounts his travel and shares his unique views on the Arizona urban laboratory.

Screen/Print #64: Pedro Bandeira Narrates His Field Trip to Arcosanti
 

Screen/Print #63: Experimental Preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos Talks About Cherished Objects and Adolescence, Wed, Oct 11 '17

"What does it mean to be 17 in 2017?" That is the question the most recent issue of Harvard Design Magazine, Seventeen, seeks to explore by looking into teenagehood and its relation to the spatial imagination.

Screen/Print #63: Experimental Preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos Talks About Cherished Objects and Adolescence
 

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Here's a look at some of our favorite contemporary practices led by Indigenous Architects, Mon, Oct 9 '17

This year, LA County made the long overdue choice to have the second Monday of October officially observed as Indigenous Peoples' Day. As a counter to the controversial Columbus Day, celebrated nationally on the same day, the shift redirects the holiday's focus on the land's original ...

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Here's a look at some of our favorite contemporary practices led by Indigenous Architects
 

Deans List: Milton Curry shares his vision for the future of the USC School of Architecture , Thu, Oct 5 '17

For this edition of the Deans List we spoke with incoming dean Milton Curry at the University of Southern California. Dean Curry told us about his vision for the school, what it means to be a citizen architect and the commitment of architecture thinking to public good.

Deans List: Milton Curry shares his vision for the future of the USC School of Architecture
 

French Architect Cyril Lancelin Applies Slow Living Concepts to his Small Studio Town and Concrete, Tue, Sep 26 '17

Cyril Lancelin from Town and Concrete is our latest Small Studio Snapshot. The Paris and Lyon-based architect reinvents domestic spaces using simple shapes and innovative design. We talked with Lancelin about working from home, slow living and Instagram. 

French Architect Cyril Lancelin Applies Slow Living Concepts to his Small Studio Town and Concrete
 

Columbus, a Movie on Architecture, Drama and Romance, Thu, Sep 14 '17

Set in Columbus, Indiana, the movie bearing the city’s name narrates the singular friendship between Casey, a young woman deeply passionate about modernist architecture, and Jin, the son of a famous Korean architect who landed in Columbus because of his father’s illness. 

Columbus, a Movie on Architecture, Drama and Romance