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Entries from January 2008

Welcome New Readers!

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I would like to Welcome all of the new readers to Young Architect! Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the content thus far.  
A major goal in this site is to collect as many architecture […]

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One Step Closer to Judgement Day…

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Take a look at this article posted at Mirage.Studio.7 . reporting that the Korean Construction and Transportation Ministry is moving forward with the development of robotic technology that will take over a portion of the construction on high rise towers. The robots, who are projected to report to work starting in 2010, will not only increase productivity, but will also decrease the […]

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How Happy Are We With Our Jobs?

January 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Surprisingly, “we,” being architects, are very happy with our jobs considering how others view their profession.
Take a look at this Time.com Survey where 53.5% of Architects say they are very happy with their jobs, putting them near the top of the list.
The “happiest” profession is…Clergy at 67.2%. I don’t know if its fair to ask them […]

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Tags: The Profession

Reader Survey Results

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

So it has been over a month since I first posted this survey. Thank you to all the new readers and friends of Young Architect who took the time to fill the survey out. It has meant a great deal in the continued development of this site.
Results: The Typical Young Architect Visitor
1. Who are you?

The […]

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The Architect’s Habitat

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Recently we had to move our desks around in my office in order to retint our windows. My firm has been at its current location for 15 years and the furniture arrangement has never changed. So you can imagine that prying the desks from their encrusted locations on the rug revealed a cross section of […]

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