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We have all been to IKEA. We have all been broke but needed a table to eat our ramen noodles on or a futon to furnish our new apartment with. Out of a sense of duty to our wallets, we breakdown and drag ourselves to IKEA. We know going in that this stuff cant possibly be […]

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Architect Magazine, in their November 2007 issue, had a few feature pieces on education and its correlation to practice. Here are a few things I found interesting pertaining to our forum:
Top 10 Undergraduate Programs

Does anyone find the schools on this list to be surprising? My dark-horse on this list would have to be Pratt, although […]

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Looking for a new job is a vulnerable time in any architect’s life. Not only do we have to update our resumes but we also need to update our portfolios and accrue our working drawings. So it makes sense that recruiters would only aid in this process. This sometimes is not the case.
Early in my […]

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An interesting article I just came across:
Spotting Good Architecture
(Please don’t ask why I came across dummies.com…it just happens.)
I find it interesting that deciding that something is “good architecture” could be so formulaic. But this brought to mind another question:
Who decides whether buildings are architecturally significant; architects or the public? Does the general public lack the […]

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