Related problems occur with designers trained in engineering, for although they may understand hard-core science, they are often ignorant of the so-called soft areas of social and behavioral sciences. The do not understand human behavior, chiding people for not using technology properly, asking how...
" - an article that, likemany over the last year, attempts to tackle the tricky question of why women (who make up over40% of architecture students in the US but only 23% of the profession) leave architecture.For the first few paragraphs, I was nodding in agreement, eagerly reading some...
The Art Deco replaced the flowing lines of Art Nouveau with sharp lines and basic shapes combined with experiments in new materials, like glass block. Ranch The Ranch also grew out of Mexican Architecture of the Southwest. In this case they copied the low-flung buildings of Mexican Ranches. ...
Summary This chapter discusses that architecture practice is needed to ensure that all the IT investments will hang together and work the way they are supposed to work. To proactively ensure that any new technology, platform, or solution introduced into the environment is the best solution from a...
An instruction that pops a value off of a stack needs to do two things: read the value out of memory, and adjust the stack pointer. There are four possible design choices for this operation: Preincrement (++*ptr) the stack pointer first, then read the value. This implies that the stack...
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. – Oscar Wilde
An industry manager who left his white-blue, silver-shimmering world of car bodywork and dove into the pitch-black, mysterious world of architecture for the first time during a competition asked me one day: “Ms Rau, why do architects actually wear black?” Although I was wearing black and...
Tracking 13 cohorts of graduates from two adjacent Australian architecture schools (in one state, South Australia) revealed that more than three-quarters of female graduates over the period 1999-2011 had not registered as architects prior to 2014. Although, nationally, 21% of registered architects ...
A skilled coding architect can diversify into fields like software development and software design, which typically pay better. Traditionally, architecture doesn't pay very well, and creating a reputation in the industry can be difficult. Coding pays very well, and programming skills are in hig...
Our buildings respond to this new world order as they have to every other cultural shift that has had nothing to do with architecture, but results in buildings changing to reflect new values and realities. But the imposition of economic imperatives on architecture has little to do with de...