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Process: The Ridgecrest House
The process of design and construction, which results in a custom home, is unknown to many. Every beautiful home is the result of innumerable hours of communication through sketches, models, renderings and conversation. This post records some of the highlights of that process for the Ridgecrest home.
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Other Voices: The Why, What and How of Social Media by Amanda Walter
Communications strategist Amanda Walter, who spoke at the AIACC’s Now Next Future Conference in October, discusses the power of using social media to build your professional reputation.
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Process: Standing room for two.
Our clients for our recent Green Street project were seeking a custom-built, large, efficient workstation comprised of two connected but separable desks suitable for sitting or standing work.
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Now Next Future Conference 2014
Join your fellow architects for the NOW NEXT FUTURE conference presented by AIACC this October in Santa Monica.
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The Missing 32% Project: Equity in Architecture Survey 2014
Rosa Sheng AIA, a fellow director at AIASF, along with many others, is spearheading the effort to investigate the inequity in gender representation in the Architectural profession.
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Beyond Repositioning: It’s time for Reconstruction!
As many of our readers know, AIA National has been on a campaign to “reposition” the architectural profession in response to a sense of overwhelming dissatisfaction as expressed by a majority of it’s constituents. Unfortunately, many of us, including the entire Board of Directors of the San Francisco Chapter, feel that the repositioning effort is not effective at best, and likely an attempt at bureaucratic self preservation.
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Picture of the Week- Esparon, France
The village of Esparon is a small village located south of France. The town is located in the department of Gard of the french region Languedoc-Roussillon.
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Picture of the Week- Irish Round Tower at Glendalough
Irish round towers (Irish: Cloigtheach (singular), Cloigthithe (plural) – literally “bell house”) are early medieval stone towers of a type found mainly in Ireland.
