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  Architect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Canada, architects are required to belong to provincial architectural associations that require them to complete an accredited degree in architecture, finish a multi-year internship process, pass a series of exams, and pay an annual fee to acquire and maintain a license to practice.
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada [2] aims to be "the voice of Architecture and its practice in Canada." Architects who are members of this organization are permitted to use the suffix MRAIC after their names.
Schooling is not always required in such states as New York, for someone who works at least 10 years under an accredited architect is eligible for a licensening test.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Architect   (1272 words)

  
 Architectural Association School of Architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Architectural Association (also known as AA School of Architecture) is the oldest independent school of architecture in the UK.
In 1901, it moved premises to the former Royal Architectural Museum.
Since its foundation, the School has continued to draw its teaching staff from progressive international practices, and they are reappointed annually, allowing a continual renewal of the exploration of architecture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Architectural_Association_School_of_Architecture   (241 words)

  
 Cooper Union School of Architecture: Faculty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He studied architecture at the university of Houston, graduating with a bachelor of architecture (with honors) in 1978.
He attended graduate school at Cranbrook academy of art, under the tutorship of Daniel Libeskind, gaining a master of architecture degree in 1983.
In 1989, he was an associate to Libeskind for the competition design of the ‘extension to the Berlin Museum, with Jewish Department’ (now known as the “Jewish Museum”, Berlin).
www.cooper.edu /architecture/faculty/faculty/bates.html   (381 words)

  
 Ellipsis...The Interactivator
It proposes the evolutionary model of nature as the generating process for architectural form, in an attempt to achieve in the built environment the symbiotic behaviour and metabolic balance that are characteristic of the natural environment.
Architecture is considered as a form of artificial life, subject, like the natural world, to principles of morphogenesis, genetic coding, replication and selection.
Architectural concepts are expressed as generative rules so that their evolution and development can be accelerated and tested by the use of computer models.
www.ellipsis.com /evolutionary/evolutionary.html   (801 words)

  
 UB Reporter: School of Architecture and Planning presents lecture series
The School of Architecture and Planning has scheduled a lecture series this fall that features an impressive lineup of internationally known and award-winning architects and designers.
Seraji, who has taught design at the Architectural Association in London and at Princeton University, currently is professor and chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell University.
Robert P. Hubbard Professor in Practice of Architecture and chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University, Mori is the principal of Toshiko Mori Architect, which was established in 1981 in New York and has received awards and prizes internationally.
www.buffalo.edu /reporter/vol35/vol35n5/articles/ArchLecture.html   (920 words)

  
 Architect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Although architect is a specific term referring to a licensed professional, the word is frequently used in a broader sense to define someone who brings order to the built or unbuilt environment through rational and irrational constructs using the tools of reason (for example, webmasters or designers sometimes call themselves architects).
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada [1] aims to be "the voice of Architecture and its practice in Canada." Architects who are members of this organization are permitted to use the suffix MRAIC after their names.
Architectural interns are required to pass a series of 8 exams, referred to as the Architectural Registration Examination (the ARE) in order to become licensed.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/architect.html   (665 words)

  
 Manifesta 5. artists. Office of Alternative Urban Planning
Her main research focus is the potential of architecture as an urban articulator—when the architectural installation acts not only as an object, but as a key piece within the city’s integration, aiming at the activation of dead places, social interaction and appropriation.
BA in Architecture from Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, 2001.
Villate joined the Berlage Institute in 2002, where she has been developing her research on architecture as an element not to be made but to be discovered through the study of the different stimuli produced by the city and its individuals.
www.manifesta.es /eng/artistas/artistas/office.htm   (810 words)

  
 Architecture Web Resources
Architecture and Building is a guide to net sites on architecture, building and construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture, compiled by Jeanne Brown, University of Nevada Las Vegas Architecture Studies Library.
Architectural college in San Diego California, New School of Architecture and Design fosters students based on the concept of architectural internship.
University of Wales, Cardiff, Welsh School of Architecture [http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/archi/index.html]
library.nevada.edu /arch/rsrce/webrsrce/main0008.html   (2571 words)

  
 @~1~AARAU
Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the 16th to the Early 19th Centuries.
This pioneer survey, illustrated with brilliant architectural photographs by Henry Greenwood Peabody, was privately printed in two editions: the "Tresguerras Edition," with portfolios of loose plates of original photographs, as here, and the "Gómez de Mora" edition, issued in a single volume with tipped-in illustrations only.
Presence of Italy in the architecture of the Islamic Mediterranean.
www.arslibri.com /sb103n.htm   (5578 words)

  
 Europe (on ArtsFizz.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Focuses on developing highly professional experts in architectural engineering who are aware of the social and cultural implications of their profession.
A research department associated with the School of Architecture at the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of Liege (ULg) in Belgium.
The School aims to educate resourceful and adaptable architects who are able to respond creatively and responsibly to the demands of a complex and changing profession.
www.artsfizz.com /Architecture/Education/Academic_Departments/Europe   (1236 words)

  
 Intergen
She is currently professor and chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
He was an associate principal at Loebl Schlossman and Hackl prior to the formation of LCM Architects.
He is a part-time associate professor of Urban Design at Columbia University and a visiting critic in various schools in the USA, Canada, and Europe.
www.ci.chi.il.us /disabilities/Intergenerational/jury.html   (856 words)

  
 IDEASFACTORY West Midlands - Art & Design Feature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Inner-city redevelopments and examples of inspiring modern architecture like this are happily becoming a more familiar sight in the UK, which is good news for the profession and anyone wanting to join it.
The AA [Architectural Association School of Architecture, where Levete studied] had a system where you could choose your tutors.
This comprises a three-year architecture degree ('RIBA Part 1'); then a further two years of academic work ('RIBA Part 2') is normally sandwiched between two years spent working in an architectural practice, before the final Part 3 exam.
westmidlands.ideasfactory.com /art_design/features/feature11.htm   (1011 words)

  
 Architecture,Design
I graduated in architecture & I decided to developed it in my journal.Architecture and designing are extol my brainpower & gratification myself.I`ve continue these in my mind,soal& heart my bilief is persons should be realist in their behavior.
Architecture Degree (Hons), E.T.S. of Architecture in Madrid, Spain
Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977.
vahid.blogdrive.com   (715 words)

  
 SAPLING | Architecture Gateway | Courses
The Architectural Association was established in 1847 as a forum for architectural debate and reform.
The Newcastle School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (APL) brings together the previous Departments of Architecture and Town and Country Planning, and seeks "to build on its teaching and research excellence in developing an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to researching and teaching all aspects of architecture, planning, urban design, digital architecture, urban conservation and landscape architecture".
Nottingham's School of the Built Environment combines the Institutes of Architecture, Building Technology and Urban Planning with the newly created Institute of Sustainable Energy Technology (ISET); the School as a whole is described as a "leading centre for research and teaching with excellent facilities and a wide range of research programmes".
www.sapling.org.uk /architecture/courses.shtml   (2398 words)

  
 Moya, Jacko (John Hidalgo) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Moya, Jacko (John Hidalgo)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He was awarded the CBE in 1966 and the practice won the RIBA Gold Medal in 1974.
Moya was born in Los Gatos, California, and studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London during World War II, graduating in 1943.
It contained some 1,800 dwellings, 30 shops, public houses, a nursery school, and a library, in mostly nine-storey blocks set out to give all flats views of the river.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Moya,+Jacko+(John+Hidalgo)   (392 words)

  
 Artifact: Full Record for Architectural Association School of Architecture
The school has a student population of over 500, drawn from more than 60 countries and a worldwide membership of the association of approximately 2600.
The AA school teaches both the theory and practice of architecture.
It aims to equip students and future architects with "the means to construct new forms of material imagination" and to "provide the ground for producing new and innovative forms of practice in architecture that are socially, politically, economically and ethically engaged with everyday life".
www.artifact.ac.uk /displayoai.php?id=3   (185 words)

  
 Greig Crysler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Architecture shapes, and is shaped by, its wider social and historical context.
As an architectural theorist with a background in professional practice, I am interested in understanding not only texts and buildings, but the institutions of architectural culture (including those of education, research and the profession) as forms of social practice and sites of cultural politics.
His research interests include the geopolitics of architectural discourse since 1960; globalization and the social production of the built environment; and the relationship between architecture and identity.
arch.ced.berkeley.edu /ced_people/faculty/details.cfm?EmpID=141   (426 words)

  
 Acanthus Holden Architects | Practice
Linda Jones, Director, qualified from the Welsh School of Architecture in 1989.
The practice is well known throughout West Wales as regional architects in general practice with a commitment to the conservation and creative re-use of redundant buildings and the environment they depend on.
The practice is the Welsh representative member of Acanthus Associated Architectural Practices Ltd., a national group of firms committed to excellence in Architecture and the conservation of the environment.
www.acanthus.co.uk /holden/1.aspx?mid=63   (294 words)

  
 The Architectural Association
The Architectural Association is the oldest independent school of architecture in the UK.
It was founded by a group of dissatisfied young architects in 1847 to provide a self-directed, independent education at a time when there ws no formal training available.
Courses are divided into two main areas - undergraduate programmes, leading to the AA Diploma, and postgraduate programmes, which include specialised courses in housing and urbanism, energy and the environment, history and theory, design, as well as day-release course in building conservation, garden conservation, and environmental access.
www.ellipsis.com /evolutionary/aa.html   (392 words)

  
 Biography of Una-May O'Reilly
She was appointed a research scientist in the Humanoid Robotics group in 1999 and became a principal research scientist in 2004.
She is an associate editor of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, on the editorial board of Evolutionary Computation, and action editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
She developed robot architectures and coordinated robot platforms and reporting under the Humanoid Robotics group's 4 year DARPA Mobile Autonomous Robot Software project on Natural Tasking of Robots Based on Human Cues (PI: Rodney Brooks).
people.csail.mit.edu /unamay/biography.html   (417 words)

  
 Griggs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
After receiving a BA from Yale College in 1979 he received a fellowship to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture for one year.
Kimo began his own architectural firm in 1988, pursuing new residential and small commercial work as well as providing restoration services for a variety of building types.
A design and fabrication company was begun concurrently to produce prototypes and finished architectural details including lighting, hardware, furniture, railing systems and ornament.
www.gsd.harvard.edu /events/conferences/cadcam/people/griggs.htm   (157 words)

  
 Mohsen Mostafavi is dean of AAP
Mostafavi, a U.S. citizen who studied at London's Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) and the University of Cambridge, has served as chairman (equivalent to dean) of the AA since 1995.
On the heels of two successful terms as chairman of the AA, London's leading school of architecture, Mostafavi's Cornell appointment crowns an already prestigious career that includes a stint as director of the Master of Architecture 1 Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
Mostafavi attended Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, from 1981 to 1984, the University of Essex Department of Art from 1976 to 1981 and the AA from 1972 to 1976.
www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/04/4.15.04/Mostafavi_dean_AAP.html   (758 words)

  
 RWU Historic Preservation - Scholar in Residence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hall has been part-time lecturer in the history of Renaissance architecture at Hull School of Architecture and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture for their Diploma Courses on the Conservation of Historic Buildings and the Conservation of Historic Parks and Gardens.
He has also provided lectures for the R.I.B.A. at Cambridge University School of Architecture in their Continuing Professional Development for architects courses; the Victoria and Albert Museum; the Art Workers Guild; the Georgian Group; the National Trust; the National Art Collections Fund and many other organizations.
For many years a professor at the University of Manchester, he is author of the Handbook of Vernacular Architecture, and major studies of English Barns and Tudor Brick.
arch.rwu.edu /hp/people/scholar   (799 words)

  
 Tony Fretton Architects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Our skills in research, architecture and planning provide cultural and economic benefits that are directly experienced in the buildings we make and the world around them.
Key to all of these projects is the recognition of the role that the building plays in reflecting the vision of the centre and the cultural contribution that it makes to the local community.
Teaching posts include Unit Master at the Architectural Association, School in London from 1988-1992, Visiting Professor at the Berlage Institute Amsterdam and the Ecole Polytechnique Ferderale de Lausanne in 1994-96.
www.tonyfretton.co.uk /practice.htm   (646 words)

  
 Friedrich St Florian : : Biography
Friedrich St.Florian was unanimously selected from 400 entries to design the National World War II Memorial to be built in Washington, D.C. He holds a Master Degree in Architecture from the Technical University in Graz, Austria and a Master's in Urban Design from Columbia University in New York City.
During his long tenure at the Rhode Island School of Design, he served as Acting Provost for three years, Dean of Architecture for eleven years and Chief Critic of the European Honors Program in Rome for four years.
He has also taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University in Montreal, the University of Texas in Austin, and the University of Utah.
www.fstflorian.com /Biography.html   (372 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Architect Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
An architect is a person skilled in the art of planning, designing and overseeing the constructing of buildings.
See Architecture or Landscape Architecture Architects are considered professionals on p...
In the United States, architects may hold one of three degrees; a Bachelor of Architecture, a Master of Architecture, or a Doctor of Architecture (abbreviated as B.Arch., M.Arch., and D.Arch., respectively).
www.ipedia.com /architect.html   (675 words)

  
 95-036 (Neumann)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Neumann, assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, joined the Brown faculty in 1989, first as a visiting professor then as a full-time faculty member beginning in 1991.
His next project will be a resource book for architectural research in Rhode Island, which grew out of a research project he conducted with graduate students in art history.
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is an international association of colleges, universities and independent elementary and secondary schools.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/1995-96/95-036.html   (539 words)

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