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Invaluable advice from an architect whose journey might be just like yours

Samantha Raburn is a newly licensed architect at Stantec Architecture in Plano, Texas. Her blog, The Aspiring Architect, recounts her journey to become qualified and acts as an insightful guide to all those following a similar path into the profession.  During my five years of architecture school, I often wondered how applicable the projects and…

Defining your hourly rate is a difficult thing. Many architects are afraid to set their hourly rates too high, especially when they are just starting their businesses and clients are not yet queueing up.

Some things just aren’t meant to be. The tumultuous love affair between Manchester City Council and minimalism appears over, and the fallout has plunged architectural purists into a period of urgent introspection. This critical moment is signified not by the construction of a building, but by its unceremonious removal: Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s only structure…

There is a certain irony in NBC calling creative majors useless when its own media platform is undou btedly brought to life by people with degrees in those very subjects.

Like plants to the sun, most of us possess the innate desire to bask in — or just have access to — n urturing natural light. But in the deepest of building cores or lowest of subterranean floors, true openings or daylight harvesters might not be feasible or affordable. So architects and interior designers have found ways to simulate daylight, whether through faux skylights, cove lighting or strategic material and color palettes.

Architecture can be a lonely pursuit — but also the greatest thing you'll ever do.

Rendering artist Rafal Barnas approaches each project individually.

Peter Eerlings is the creator of Archisnapper, an intelligent site management app that helps archite cts create field reports with incredible efficiency — read more here. He also hosts a series of informative articles about technology and business for architects on the Archisnapper Blog, a selection of which we are glad to present on Architizer. If…