3 New Technologies and Products that Architects Love
Four-dimensional printed metal fabric from NASA? Self-charging batteries? Lighting that you can wrap around a pencil as easily as you can wrap it around a room? The industry is awash…
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Poetic Justice: 2017’s Library Building Architecture Award Winners
Architectural excellence is worth celebrating. That’s especially true for public buildings that affect the lives of so many people for generations. Each year, the American Institute of Architects and the…
3 Issues That Affect California Architect Continuing Education
The Golden State is known for several things besides sunshine, not the least of which are history, sustainability, and seismic activity. California architect continuing education addresses these issues with several…
The AIA: A Rock of Equality in Uncertain Times
Few other industries have as broad and cooperative of an international workforce as architecture. The recent issues affecting policy, passports, worker visas and immigration have the potential to hit the…
There’s Still Plenty of Room for Women in Architecture
The Architectural Review 2017 Women in Architecture Survey found few surprises about women in the industry. Now in its 6th year, the survey asked 1,277 women and 340 men about…
Los Angeles Architects Design Award-Winning Veterans Housing
Veterans are one of the most overlooked groups of Americans in need of a safe, comfortable and secure place to live. Los Angeles has the highest number of homeless, disabled…
3 Ways to Dispel Common Myths about Architects
For such a widely recognized group of professionals, the general public has a lot of misconceptions about architects. Some people imagine brilliant but eccentric personalities, such as Frank Lloyd Wright…
The 5 Best Architecture Blogs to Follow
What are other architects in the U.S. and around the world talking about today? You can find out by subscribing to top-ranking architecture blogs. We’ve pulled together 5 disparate examples…
Could McMansions Become the New Brutalist Architecture?
Move over, brutalist. McMansions are encroaching on your territory. It’s hard to imagine an architectural style more universally unloved than bare concrete buildings from the brutalist movement. But McMansions are…
Architectural Originality and Breaking Out of the Rut
Architects have natural and man-made limitations to creating original designs, which some believe are inherent creativity blockers. And some experts believe that there’s no such thing as originality at all.…