Practice: Details

"Even though classes have only just begun, what’s expected of us in terms of critical insight and ra te of production is staggering."

When starting out in a young firm, understanding architectural fees and knowing how much to charge i s crucial, yet the information offered on this subject is incredibly fragmented and inconsistent.

Michael Riscica is a licensed architect from Portland, Oregon, who has been advancing the profession with his blog YOUNG ARCHITECT. Michael has written extensively about the architect exam and wrote the book How to Pass the Architecture Registration exam. Recently, Michael has been bicycling across America during the summer of 2016. I’m not an Architect;…

While it is far from pretty, this building’s responsiveness to present and future programmatic needs may turn out to be a theatrical masterstroke.

In his 2012 compendium How Music Works, David Byrne postulates, “The gathered masses in sports arena s and stadiums demanded that the music perform a different function — not only sonically, but socially — from what it had been asked to do on a record or in a club. The music those bands ended up writing…

Make your renderings look like they were produced on camera.

We go right back to basics and ask a fundamental question about one of architecture's favorite drawi ng types.

When considering which architect might have the biggest presence in the consciousness of today’s cel ebrities, you would be forgiven for picking the most famous names in contemporary design — the likes of Gehry, Hadid and Libeskind must surely be most familiar to those in the upper echelons of stardom, right? On the contrary, it is…

Exploring the relationship between water and urban life, ‘Blue Urbanism’ focuses on the ways archite cture can facilitate how we perceive and value our ties to the sea. Taking case studies from across the world, this series will take a critical look at the ways contemporary cities are evolving alongside the environment. Coastal cities will fundamentally…