When you hear the word "Architect", what image springs to mind? A brilliant blog post by Ross Weinreb has been doing the rounds for a couple of weeks, and being a bit behind, I chanced upon it …
What good architects do: Strategy
Picture two animals: a fox and a hedgehog. Which are you? An ancient Greek parable distinguishes between foxes, which know many small things, and hedgehogs, which know one big thing. All …
What Good Architects Do No. 2: Make Connections
All good designers are great at joining things together. A classic example is the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the German Pavilion at Barcelona (1929) rather disappointingly alluded to by …
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Architects Twitter League breaks 250!
When we started this journey in January I could only find a couple of dozen architects using twitter, the networking tool which allows you to converse with people all over the world in 140 character …
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PassivHaus – its about saving energy
When I was studying to be an architect in 1990s Liverpool our design tutors gave us a project. We were to choose a method of generating renewable energy by the Mersey, and then design a ‘theme park’ …
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Joining the Architects Twibe
As more and more architects get on to twitter and start tweeting away, they routinely look for each other, and with a bit of luck they come across the Architects Twitter League and end up joining, for …