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The following is a story by Maya Anderson which has appeared in The West Australian, https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/lifestyle/a/30609776/five-myths-about-architects/ If you were to make a list of 10 of the world’s most misunderstood professions, I think architecture would be prominent. The profession is an area where myths abound about everything from what an architect does to how much they earn and the size of their egos. Australian Institute of Architects WA Chapter pres

This is an article that was published in the Architects Journal on 19 July, 2012 | By Christine Murray. This column addressed to those of the 2,031 adults surveyed by InBuilding.org with YouGov who don’t know what architects do, writes Christine Murray Imagine a child, standing impatiently on a chair while a grandmother measures their body: the length of their torso, the span of the shoulders, the length of their arms, the inner leg. The numbers are written down and a paper p

A scooping concrete roof cantilevers over the rear entrance to a house by the Ganges River in northern India. Mumbai architects Rajiv Saini + Associates designed the single-storey residence, which burrows into the sloping riverside terrain. A spa is located where the building tunnels into the hill and a tree-lined courtyard is concealed between the house and landscape. Rough masonry walls define the main entrance, while both angular and curved concrete walls separate individu

The “Casa della Musica” in Cervignano del Friuli is the result of a project for reusing, renovating and redeveloping a brick building, which had been abandoned for some time. It was designed and executed by GEZA (architects Stefano Gri and Piero Zucchi). Commissioned by the town council, the new home for culture and musical representations, the “Casa della Musica” has adopted a simple – capable of respecting the memory of the original structure – and yet contemporary language

This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building. A lot of them have been left out with grief because we only need one for each letter and we done an effort to have differents nationalities. If you love architecture, for more stuff you can follow us inhttp://www.ombuarchitecture.tumblr.com Concept and Animation: Andrea Stinga, Federico Gonzalez Art Direction: Federico Gonzalez Music: The Butterfly from Eugene C.Rose and Georg

Came across this interesting blog from Bob Borson: 10 Reasons to be an Architect. http://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/top-ten-reasons-to-be-an-architect/ #design #architect