tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26849961227830247092012-02-01T08:46:26.429-08:00The School of Architecture at Southern Illinois UniversityJ. Dobbinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10466063246076164815noreply@blogger.comBlogger3641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684996122783024709.post-2238675875856482502012-02-01T08:45:00.000-08:002012-02-01T08:46:26.432-08:00

By Matthew Owens2016 marks the 100 year anniversary of Chicago’s Navy Pier. Navy Pier is Illinois most visited tourist attraction with more than nine million visitors last year. Of course the Pier was part of the original Burnham plan, and was constructed in 1916. Its intended use was port for lake freight ships and a warehouse, as well as docking space for passenger liners. At one point in

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By Molly Moran From the first several chapters of Michael Pacione's Urban Geography: A Global Perspective and Peter Hall's Cities of Tomorrow one can surmise that all things are interconnected from local business to the global environment. And nowhere is it truer then within the complex working of a urbanized city. Using descriptive words like urban and urbanization are deeply rooted into local

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By Jason SkidmoreFacebook has a data center in Oregon that uses as much power as the entire county does. That is 28MW of power. Facebook is growing and will continue to grow. This means that power needs of its data center will only increase. This Facebook campus has one data center fully operational and another data center that is identical to the first one being built. There are also plans

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By Andrew WyneAfter some thought of a topic for this next blog, I suddenly had the thought of what is the first building ever constructed. After about five seconds of research I found out that there is no possible way anyone could know, simply because humanity didn’t have the technology to document that event and more than likely it wasn’t anything to scream about, just a simple hut or living

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By Laura ThomasI had every intention of working on my Hospice Thesis over break. I packed several books to read, I was going to complete my program, do a schedule for the semester, do a site visit and analysis. Out of all of these, the only thing I managed to do was the site visit. Between family and friends, Christmas parties, New Year's celebrations, catching up on sleeping in and trying to

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By Zachary CollinsWelcome back everyone. I hope you all had a good break. I feel like the month off flew by! I was definitely busy most of break. I was still working at my part-time job at SIH, was best man at my cousin’s wedding, had multiple Christmases, and spent 5 days in Chicago for New Years –that last one was more of a vacation, than being busy. It was my second time in Chicago in my

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By Micah JacobsonI hope everyone had a good break. My wife and I were able to spend time with family in Columbia Missouri. We were also able to visit Bloomington, IL, Kansas City, MO, Paducah, KY, and Lake of the Ozarks, MO. For my thesis project I have selected a site in Kansas City, MO. This is the first time I have been involved in the site selection process. I selected the site based on

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By Sean Koetting"A recent study released by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce states that students who have recently graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in architecture have experience the highest rates of unemployment. The information was gathered using 2009 and 2010 data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Undergraduate architecture students are

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By Erik IlliesSo how about aeroponic systems and what makes them different from hydroponics...Aeroponics are pretty cool in a lot of ways, specifically the efficiency in which they foster high/ healthy yields of plants. Even more specifically, the fact that they use zero soil to foster plant growth! The system is comprised of a growing medium platform that uses a mesh-like material plant roots

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By Audrey TreeceWelcome back everyone! I hope everyone had a stress free break and is ready to get back to school mode. I have always enjoyed the breaks throughout the academic school year. It is guaranteed time that you have where you can plan trips, explore new things and take care of unfinished business. I truly do not know what I am going to do when I have to enter the “real world” and work

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By Molly MoranHawken, Paul. (1993). The Ecology of Commerce. A Declaration of Sustainability. New York. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.The book begins with a powerful statement about business and the world, “Businesspeople must either dedicate themselves to transforming commerce to a restorative undertaking or much society to the undertaker” (Hawken. 1993. Pg.2). It is a do or die statement that

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By Matthew OwensWinter break is over and it is time to get back to school, kind of a bummer right. I hope everyone took advantage of this month long break since it will most likely be the last. After this summer we will graduate and for most of us I am sure we will be heading to work in an office somewhere. That means no more month long winter break, spring break, fall break, or summer break,

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By Jason SkidmoreIn the latest issue of the magazine Fast Company the main article was entitled, “This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business.” It is a great article highlighting modern business and how professionals are succeed in the modern economy. Rather than summarize the entire article, which would be a crime to the article itself, I will quote

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by Joel WallaceBelow is an excerpt from the World Architecture News and is presenting a large scale museum project in Palestine. With crunch for thesis development already here, this project could set as a nice example of masterplanning, design, and cultural significance that most of our topics may require attention to. Designing to respect the past, present, and future are what drives our

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By Jason SkidmoreOne of the most interesting projects I feel that architects get to be involved in at this time in history is the creation of data centers. This type of architecture in many ways is cutting edge and relatively new to the profession. It seems as if the requirements are easy enough to understand. It most be in an area that's mostly cold year round and has easy access to water.

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by Audrey TreeceHappy Holidays! I was having a hard time trying to figure out what to write for this blog entry. I think you all can agree when I say that as of 4:00PM on Friday, December 17, 2011, my brain went on strike. It told me that I was not allowed to think or work on anything until I got sleep and my body readjusted back to a normal schedule and/or routine. I began by using my best

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By Dempson Haney Our fall semester Master Studio project was an urban village located in downtown East St. Louis. The site location was idea because of its metro link access on the east side of the site. The project I received was a large retail facility and community recreational facility. In order to work with the small site but still fit 75,000 sq. ft. of retail program along with recreational

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By Sean KoetingI have always enjoyed the work of MVRDV, since I was first introduced to them in my sophomore studio class here at SIUC. However, I find it quite hard to believe that somewhere along the line no one in the MVRDV studio realized that what they designed in concept and what was being displayed were two different images. Below is the full story taken from http://

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By Sean Hartman Some people may think that holidays are a great time to take a break and relax and not have to worry about projects for classes and meeting deadlines when they are due. But who takes a break from architecture? We may be on break for the holiday but do we usually take a break from architecture? I usually find myself sketching, looking at buildings around town, or looking at the

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And to All a Good Break!!By Micah JacobsenThis is one of my favorite times of the years. It is time for family and friends, reflecting on the past year and pondering the message the season brings. Something I always admired about this time of the year is the increase in selflessness and giving, even though budgets are more strained than any other time of the year. Something fun that I remember

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By Zac CollinsI am glad to say that our final presentations for Fall studio are finished! The countless hours of work we all put in and the all-nighters definitely made for a day of great presentations on Friday, December 9th. I want to congratulate everyone on a job well done. I know we have all been stressed out over this project, but overall the gallery looked amazing with all our

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By Matthew OwensAs I write now our final presentation for design studio is due in thirty-two hours. When you think about it thirty-two hours seems a long time, I mean that is the equivalent of three eight hour work days. If someone told you that you have three days to do something, you might think you have substantial time. It seems slightly different when the thirty two hours come

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By Erik IlliesI’ll take this blog posting as an opportunity to share my tips for getting through final preparations for studio presentations. Of course these hindsight’s are specific to my point of view, but we’ve all been there before and share a lot of the same issues. If nothing else, this will serve as a talking point that will suffice as my blog posting submission requirement!So here goes:

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By Dempson Haney

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By Audrey TreeceIn light of the architecture “hell” week, I am going to keep this short and sweet. Quigley Hall is always an interesting place to be during the final week of the semester. There are people everywhere and I would love to be a fly on the wall and observe all of the craziness that comes out in people. Aside from people being tired, stressed out and sometimes a little irritable, the

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By Andrew WyneWhat as architecture majors, are we supposed to learn in school? Most of the time we seem to be engaged in learning the process, how a building is supposed to fit together, what the pieces of these most complex structures are. In going to school and learning about all of the parts of a building, it has become clear to me that there are primarily two ways of thinking about

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by Erik IlliesWe cannot do it all. In the world of architecture, especially, this is reality... however, in school students will often falsely believe otherwise. I'm willing to speak in sweeping generalizations about this assessment because I've been an architecture student for a total of 5 years now and have worked in the profession for 3, and in that time I notice habits of my own and those

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by Sean KoetingCreated by: Peter Brewin and Will CrawfordCCO1 is an multi-award winning project that is soon to revolutionize the work of aid agencies and troops that help save lives in emergency situations. With over 35 million refugees worldwide, concrete canvas - 'the building in a bag' - will provide quick accommodation, field offices and medical clinics that give much better protection in

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by Sean Hartman I was watching a TV show one day, I think it was "Modern Marvels" on the History Channel and they were showing homes that were underground. The primary use is like a fallout shelter but could house a family for up to 2 to 4 years. These shelters can help protect against a wide range of threats such as forced entry/assaults, climate change, chemical, biological, radiological,

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by Micah JacobsonI wanted to talk about a cool piece of structural engineering technology. It is called the precast moment frame. As we know from good old Norm, precast is a great building material. It has almost limitless appearances and material covering, it is very strong, goes up fats and required no on site forms (less labor cost). A disadvantage it has compared with in-situ (cast in

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by Molly MoranWhat is the relevance of sleep architecture to the school of architecture?It would be relatively easy to believe that sleep architecture would have something to do with the structure of where someone sleeps, but it is actually refers to brain wave patterns. The definition of sleep architecture represents the structure of sleep and is generally composed of a somewhat cyclical

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by Laura Thomas Having to renew my NCARB membership recently, I decided to discuss the IDP program that everyone must fulfill in order to become a licensed architect. I'm not going to take the time to try and explain everything about the program, you can go to the website to do extended reading and become familiar with it. The main link that will take you to all the other years of work you still

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By Jason Skidmore The blog BoingBoing.net posted an interesting story from NPR's Fresh Air about the sewage situation in Dubai. Apparently they don't have a sewage infrastructure to support high-rises. So to get rid of the sewage they have a queue of trucks lined up 24 hours a day to put the sewage into a waste water treatment plan. It seems that they put the cart before the horse

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By Erik Illies I would like to follow up my previous blog posting with the other side of the coin, b-side of the record, other cheek of information related to vertical farms as urban agriculture. You will recall that my last post touched on some potentially alarming information related to the insecurity of our current food production model. In this post we’ll hypothesize on a few ways we can

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By Dempson HaneyThe Arts and Crafts Movement by Elizabeth Cumming gives a detailed history of the Arts and Crafts movement. It looks at its beginning, the manufacturers that arose from it, architects that practiced it, and the principles or meaning behind it. The arts and crafts movement began just as the Industrial Revolution was underway. The idea behind the movement was to bring well

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By Andrew Wyne I’m sure you have been hearing that the economy isnot the best right now and as a result of that there have been layoffs in manyarchitecture firms. Even though you are one of those hard workers that wouldnormally be able to get a job in any firm the economy just might be the onething that keeps you from getting a job. What if there was a way you wouldn’thave to worry about getting

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By Zac CollinsOut of all the people in my life, I would have never guessed that my mother would send me an email that has an awesome piece of architecture in it, no offense to my mother. I had no idea this even existed, and one day I received an email from her that said “I thought you would find this interesting.” Indeed I did! This is truly amazing. It is the Sky Park of the Marina Bay Sands

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By Matt OwensSo I was at the AIA Illinois Conference last week. I had done some research for Dr. Wendler over the summer for a paper that he would eventually submit to AIA Illinois to be presented at the annual conference. Due to the situation at SIU at the time he was unable to go to the conference and present the paper, so he sent me in his place. It was one of those ‘so no shit there I was’

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By Audrey Treece This is the working abstract and my poster proposal for my design thesis. I amfocusing on early childhood environments and how architecture can play a role.According to the U.S. Census conducted in 2008, there are nearly fifteen million children under the age of six that need child care as parents work. The need for enrollment in child care hasbecome customary due to the social

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By Joel Wallace Amazing, and hilarious, view and video on urban sprawl and how we as future designers need to think about fixing it.....some information on the speaker is below, enjoy. http://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_suburbia.html James Howard Kunstler calls suburban sprawl "the greatest misallocation of resources the world has ever known." His arguments bring a new lens

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By Sean HartmanSo midterms are passed and great ideas are still being generated on the East St. Louis project. We are down to the daily grind of working on our master site plan and detailing it out and figuring out how pedestrians will flow thorough our site. This is taking a little longer than I thought it would have taken to complete but have a team of 4 people working on this it has its

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By Debra Eilering A 2009 AIAsurvey showed that women make up about a quarter of the architectureprofession, but over 30 percent of that quarter are unlicensed. In the world of"starchitects," the numbers shrink significantly — only 2 women haveever received the Pritzker Prize in its 31-year history: Zaha Hadid in 2004 andKazuyo Sejima, who shared the prize with her male partner Ryue

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By Laura ThomasOn her September 14 blog, Audrey Treece was discussing networking and the value of it and she is right. This is a topic I had wanted to touch upon and since Audrey has gotten the ball rolling, I will continue this discussion.For many, architectural networking will begin in school. Professors are a great place to start networking as they have many connections. A lot of students upon

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By Jason SkidmoreFacebook is planning on building a data center near the arctic circle to take advantage of the cold temperatures throughout the year. Facebook plans to build three giant server halls covering an area the size of 11 football fields. Lulea is situated at the northern tip of the Baltic Sea, close to 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The servers rely on air cooling, yet in

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By Dempson HaneyA prime example of a present day architect practicing total design and the creation of atmosphere is Tom Kundig, “The project can be seen as a collaboration between Tom and the many craftsman he brought to the project to produce a total work of art.” (Kundig 49). His thesis through school was the use of artistic processes and techniques with building sciences to create livable

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By Erik IlliesHow about a little food for thought? During my initial research for thesis I've found out some very interesting facts/ statistics/ propaganda/ general lies/ persuasive insinuations/ and a few random worthwhile things to consider. The topic of my thesis is Vertical Farming and the benefits of urban agriculture. Hence the clever/ witty preface question (insert pat on the back for

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By Zachary CollinsStress, the one little word used so much in a college student’s vocabulary. And in the major of architecture, it’s magnified by a 1000. Add on top of that a job, or 2, projects and homework, you might as well sit back and let the stress bombs explode into your mental and physical beings! I can honestly say being in graduate school has by far been the hardest of my college

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By Sean Keoting Apple recently approved 'Architecture' for release in their App Store. The app contains a selection of the world's finest architectural masterpieces in a pocket sized format and acts as a one-stop GPS-enabled guide to the world’s greatest buildings from the 20th and 21st century.You can travel to nearly any place in the world and the guide will tell you where the most interesting

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By Audrey Treece In lieu of Halloween, I thought I would share with all of you one of the piecesof architecture that is housed in my hometown. It is one of the destinationsthat make my hometown the most haunted small town in America. Alton, Illinois is home to the McPike Mansion, along with several, and I mean several,other places that are known for being haunted. I do

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By Matt OwensSo I was perusing Arch Daily the other day which I do from time to time, and something caught my eye. As I was scrolling down the page when I saw the heading “In Progress: Kukje Art Center / SO-IL.” A couple things ran through my mind right away; where is there is an art center being built in Southern Illinois? and Arch Daily is featuring a project that is being built in Southern

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By Joel WallaceIn a job market that remains a bit down, one way many architects and students are staying fresh and getting their names out there is in the world of competitions. Competitions raise great opportunity for creative freedom , as well as involvement in projects and problem solving we may not be lucky enough to become commissioned for. For those not familiar with it, the creators of

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By Laura ThomasWhat have I been doing this semester? Research and writing and a lot of it. Much more than I was anticipating or wanting to do. I'm constantly writing parts of my thesis, multiple papers for my Project Leadership course, panel information for our architectural Systems course, blogs every two weeks as part of my graduate assistantship, research documentation for my research

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By Matt OwensSince we just had mid reviews in studio I found this appropriate. I recently came across a blog article form ‘the all nighter’. The blog must be under construction or something because it does not look too good, unless that was the look they were going for? The blog is appears to be done by architecture students, although I could not figure out form where. They even have a

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By Audrey TreeceAll you need is love, right? I live a double life. From 8 AM on Monday until 5 PM on Friday, I am a student. From 5 PM on Friday until 8 AM on Monday, I am a wife. I have trained myself to get all of my work done during the week and can honestly say that in the last five years I can count on one hand the amount of weekends that I actually had to do school work. With that in mind,

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By Matt OwensThe future of the library has arrived! The University of Chicago opened the Mansueto Library designed by Helmut Jahn earlier this year. What makes it the future of library? Is it because the main reading room looks like a crystal egg sticking out of the ground? It definitely does not look like any other library I have ever seen, but it is not what is above ground that sets the

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by Laura ThomasA joke to start off this blog......One day a father gets out of work and on his way home he suddenly remembers that it's his daughter's birthday. He pulls over to a Toy Shop and asks the sales person, "How much for one of those Barbie's in the display window?" The salesperson answers, "Which one do you mean, Sir?We have: Work Out Barbie for $19.95, Shopping Barbie for $19.95, Beach

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By Audrey TreeceAs design professionals, we will have a lot of responsibility. All of our decisions will not only influence the space aesthetically but will also influence the people that use those spaces. Things can be easily overlooked and something that may seem like a good idea could turn out to be a disaster.I came across an article the other day on cnn.com about a recently completed $105

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What do you consider a good critique, or a critique at all for that matter?The word critique can be generally defined as an act of criticism, or an outside perspective / comment towards another’s work. The sessions of directing and indirect critiquing are the foundation of our learning and development, not only architecturally but in life. Through my experience I have seen the individuals that

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By Erik IlliesAs the stress from school builds our priorities can shift from working to create the best to working to get it done. Hopefully when that happens we can at least recognize the moral infraction being committed, even if we are unable or unwilling to correct it. Regardless, the result is devoid of emotion (positive/ negative) until we assign emotion to it. And often times it is a

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By Andrew WyneIf there is one thing you should know about while attending Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) and studying architecture is that there is a Digital Fabrication Lab (DFL). On most projects you will end up making a model, whether it is a mass model or finish model, and that takes time to cut material. At SIUC we have a nifty machine that can cut most any type of material

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By Jason SkidmoreThe recent release of Design Review Mobile for the iPad and iPhone has sparked my interest in how technology is being used within the industry and how it may change the industry. This puts BIM in the hands of those in the field so they can review things on the go. Previously AutoCADWS was the premiere mobile app to review documents on. This just didn’t suffice for those who

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By Dempson Haney Bart prince’s life began in New Mexico on June 24, 1947. His fascination for Wright’s architecture fueled his desire to become an architect, and thus had decided his field of study. From 1965 to 1970, Prince attended Arizona State University School of Architecture. While in the middle of his third year design studio, he was given the option of advancing to the second semester of

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By Audrey TreeceAs design professionals, we will have a lot of responsibility. All of our decisions will not only influence the space aesthetically but will also influence the people that use those spaces. Things can be easily overlooked and something that may seem like a good idea could turn out to be a disaster.I came across an article the other day on cnn.com about a recently completed $105

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By Jabina ShresthaKirtipur as a fort town was established according to “Sadhya Kosh Saar” i.e. water-body on the outer periphery, fort wall. The Kirtipur town was designed in the social hierarchy according to which; the Pradhans and Amatyas (ministers) lived in the central Layaku (palace complex). Similarly, other trades-men & service men were radiating to outward zone. Jyapus (farmers),

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By Zac CollinsThis past Sunday, September 11th, 2011 marked the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. In honor and remembrance of such a tragic event, the 9/11 Memorial had a private opening to the victim’s families. On Monday, it was then opened for the public. Starting in 2003, an

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by Sean KoetingWelcome back,It's been about 2 weeks since my last blog post, since then our comprehensive architectural design studio has continued its preliminary investigations of East St. Louis, Illinois. This round of group studies focused on issues specific to East St. Louis: it's history and culture, building typologies, environmental factors, land-uses, transit studies, and figure ground

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By Debra EileringThe bark hut differs greatly from the steel and glass Modernist style that now dominates sustainable architecture. Importance must be given to what can be learned from these ancient/semi-ancient cultures, the materials they used and the architecture they created. "Nature is to the Aborigines a system in which natural species and phenomena are related, or associated, in space and

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By Joel WallaceAfter recently reading an article on Studio Culture (and an abnormally loud day in studio) I began thinking of the shock factor of returning to school a few years ago and the challenges of that adjustment. Though I had several years of experience within an architectural office prior to returning to school, I wasn’t necessarily prepared for what a university architecture program

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By Matt OwensNext month Chicago is launching the first ‘Chicago Ideas Week’. Starting Monday October 10th and going through October 16, it is a week-long event focusing on innovation and creativity. The week consists of 100 guest speakers from multiple fields leading tours, discussions, debates, and hosting seminars. The intent of these speakers is to engage an audience and inspire creativity.

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By Sean HartmanAs projects start to be due you wonder if you are going to have time to print. I will give some advice during this blog that will help when it come to printing. First off do not wait till the last minute to print. The print lab is only open so many hours a week and can have hardware and mechanical error. If you give yourself a 24 hour buffer zone before the project is due to,

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By Laura ThomasAll Graduate Students are required to have 42 credits in order to complete the Masters of Architecture degree. The 15 month curriculum is pretty rigid and allows one slot for an elective in the spring semester. However, in my case and a few others who attended SIUC before the Masters program was established, Professional Practice was a required course for the undergrad program. Now

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By Dempson HaneyDoes size matter?When you think of architecture, at what size do you picture it being? With Australia you think of the Sydney Opera House, but what about the Bug in Vienna. With England comes the grand Cathedrals, but also the Rolling Summer house. France is well known for the Eiffel Tower, but you are unlikely to have heard of the Information Point. Great architecture doesn’t

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By Erik IlliesProductive day on site today for my studio class. Our project location is downtown East St. Louis and has probably more issues than potential... but that's the challenge! Admittedly, I had some preconceived notions about this project specifically because of the site location, and now that we've toured the area and met with a local developer I feel pretty much the same. I live

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By Audrey TreeceMy friend made a comment to me this weekend that I had over eight hundred friends on my Facebook account. She then followed up with, “do you really know all of those people, or do you just friend anyone and everyone that asks?” I, in return, took a look and started deciphering how I actually do know these people that are my so called “friends.” Okay, so honestly, no, I do not talk

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By Andrew WyneAfter being an undergraduate and graduate school in architecture, I have noticed more than a slight increase in sleep deprivation and caffeine consumption. I have definitely pulled my fair share of all-nighters and regularly consume caffeinated beverages. All in order to get my projects done and turned in on time. Based on conversations with fellow architecture students, I have come

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By Audrey TreeceThroughout my undergraduate career at Southern Illinois University Carbondale I had the unique opportunity of completing two degrees simultaneously, History and Architectural Studies. I truly believe that having the chance to explore two completely different programs within two completely different schools enriched my understanding and value of my education. I struggled with the

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By Sean KeotingI’ll begin my blog postings with a brief introduction of myself: My name is Sean Koetting and I am currently a graduate student at Southern Illinois University working on my Masters of Architecture degree. I will be using my blog postings to track and inform you of the work done by myself and fellow classmates throughout our Comprehensive Architectural Design Studio, ARC551.

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By Zach CollinsAt the end of last week, I had finalized my idea for my thesis project that I will be working on for the next year. I had decided on doing a Hotel/Casino high-rise with restaurants, clubs, lounges, and resort-like amenities in Las Vegas, Nevada. During my meeting with Craig about my thesis project, possible committee members were discussed with an emphasis for Shannon McDonald to

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By Jabina ShresthaTo understand the past, is to know the present. This is a step to regain a lost identity. Nepal opened up to the world in mid fifties of the last century. What has been but a mere fifty years, has brought about enormous changes to our society and our cities. Preserving the odd monument is no replacement to our identity. The much talked about urban fabric of Newari settlements

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By Jason SkidmoreOne of the worst work environments in the world is found at many of the factories owned and operated by Foxconn. The Taiwanese company makes components for many of the gadgets that the world lusts over. This lust has created a demand for products that leaves the company with no choice but to work their employees to the point of exhaustion and/or “replace the workers with robots

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By Micah JacobsonFor those of you who do not know me, my name is Micah Jacobson. I am the tutor for the structures 1 and 2 courses. I am here working on the M.Arch degree. I came from Columbia, MO a year ago where I completed a B.S. in Civil Engineering. My experience in engineering and architecture has led me to pick a thesis project that relates to both.Structure, in architecture, is what

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By Sean HartmanThe first week of classes have come and gone. There are many new faces to welcome into the undergraduate program, graduate program and to the faculty. They bring many new teaching methods and techniques to the program. As the semester started we quickly found out what we anticipated of having separate studios working on two different projects was thrown out the door. Instead of

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By Erik IlliesProductive day on site today for my studio class. Our project location is downtown East St. Louis and has probably more issues than potential... but that's the challenge! Admittedly, I had some preconceived notions about this project specifically because of the site location, and now that we've toured the area and met with a local developer I feel pretty much the same. I live

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By Joel WallaceBelow is an opening excerpt from a paper of mine in the fall of 2010. It is about a place that has both architectural and spiritual influence that can be felt, almost literally, as you enter it’s gates. Should you ever drive through my home of Louisville, KY., I hope you will take the time to visit it….Within an area of rebuilding eclectic scenery in Louisville Kentucky, lies a

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By Dempson Haney“Thermal Delight in Architecture” is a little black book that can be found at 710 and in the hands of those within Arc481 Environmental Systems and Design. This book is a light read, one that myself finished in just two hours. It was written by Lisa Herchong. When designing a soar building, she found the reference of examples scarce. She then set out to publish this book that

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By Andrew WyneSo you have decided to become an architect? In doing a little digging, I have found some statistics and information that you may want to consider as you complete your undergraduate courses. The job description of an architect is different then what is usually perceived and the qualifications for the job changes the expected salary of an architect. Architecture is more than just

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By Matt OwensI myself had never blogged before sometime last year. The idea of blogging to me sounded like a bunch of over opinionated people with too much time on their hands ranting about stuff hoping someone else in the world with just as much time on their hands had the same views and would read their ranting’s. I stayed away from blogs all together. Last year that changed, I didn’t just

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By Laura ThomasHello All: I'm Laura Thomas and since I'll be doing these blogs for the next year, I decided that I should introduce myself, tell you a little bit about me, work that I have done and where I hope to be in a year if I can manage to survive this semester. I was born and raised in Jacksonville, IL and due to family influence I became intrigued and familiar with civil and mechanical

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By Debra EileringAs architects and designers, we are responsible for the safety of the occupants that inhabit our finished products, however, how do we prepare for a planned evacuation? Does it differ than planning for an emergency evacuation? What considerations need to be addressed and how do you decide where to go, particularly when the need for life support and/or personal care is necessary

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By Bhakti Shah During my thesis studies, I was going through a magazine about the contemporary sustainability, in which one small scale project was mentioned. It was a design for an activity center for a Nongovernmental organization in Ahmadabad, India. This project was serving for a largest part of squatter settlement and functioning as multipurpose activities. These activities includes an

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By Dustin StollArchitects: al bordE arquitectos – David Barragán & Pascual GangotenaLocation: El Cabuyal, Manabí, EcuadorCollaborators: Xavier Mera, José Antonio Vivanco y Estefanía JácomeClient: Felipe Gangotena, The TeacherContractor: al bordE arquitectos, Pascual Gangotena, volunteers and the community of El CabuyalDesign Year: 2009Construction Year: 2009Project Area: 36 sqm Most of the

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