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Archinect's Top 12 Jobs for '12

2013-01-04T00:05:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Jobs during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

Do not contact these firms regarding the following job openings. These jobs have all been filled. To see hundreds of currently active job listings, visit the Archinect Job Board.

1. OMA was seeking an Architect in Rotterdam, NL

2. Miller & Wright Architects was seeking a Designer-Architect in New York, NY

3. Marmol Radziner was seeking an Entry Level Architect in Los Angeles, CA

4. OMA was seeking a Designer in Rotterdam, NL

5. Steven Holl Architects was seeking an Architect in New York, NY

6. Studio GAIA was seeking an Intern in New York, NY

7. Gabellini Sheppard Associates was seeking a Junior Interior Designer in New York, NY

8. Scalar Architecture was seeking an Entry Level Designer in New York, NY

9. AvroKO was seeking a Junior Designer in New York, NY

10. OMA was seeking an Architect in Hong Kong, HK

11. Safdie...

Archinect's Top 12 Competitions for '12

2013-01-04T00:04:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Competitions during 2012, powered by our sister site Bustler. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. d3 Natural Systems 2012

2. eVolo 2013 Skyscraper Competition

3. Gowanus by Design: WATER_WORKS

4. New York CityVision Competition

5. Museum Of Architecture (MOA), London Competition

6. [Imagine Downtown] Lafayette: Open Ideas Competition for Downtown Development

7. Cleveland Design Competition - Transforming the Bridge

8. POST+Capitalist City #1Shop

9. REVIVAL OF THE SILO

10. d3 Housing Tomorrow 2013 Competition

11. Hotel Tower & Sky Garden - NEW YORK

12. Daegu Gosan Public Library - UIA approved international architectural ideas competition

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Archinect's Top 12 Discussions for '12

2013-01-04T00:03:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Discussion threads during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. 2012 M.Arch Applicants - Final Results, Decisions, Stats, etc.

2. Is there any future in Architecture???

3. Yay!!!!! Architecture has the highest unemployment rate!

4. 2013 APPLICANTS PREP

5. Appropriate Salary?

6. What does an architecture firm look for in a cover letter for an entry level designer?

7. sick of architecture being called a bad profession

8. No license... how much to pay licensed architect to stamp drawings?

9. Evolution of Architecture as a Profession

10. Why don't contemporary architects care about well-dressing anymore?

11. Is the world ready for Parametric/ Morphogenetic Architecture?

12. What is the dress code in your office?

Also in the Top 12, based on popularity, but started prior to '12:

2012 M.Arch Applicants, Commiserate Here!

list of europe's best archite...

Archinect's Top 12 Projects for '12

2013-01-03T00:50:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Projects during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Deconstructing the Churches by Michael Jantzen

2. Alésia Museum by Bernard Tschumi Architects

3. Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Shelter by David Frazee

4. Irish Hunger Memorial by 1100 Architect

5. Parker Arts & Cultural Events {PACE} Center by Semple Brown Design, P.C.

6. WHICH STATESMAN SAID: WE SHAPE OUR BUILDINGS. THEREAFTER THEY SHAPE US.? by NEXT Architects

7. Guggenheim Helsinki by Gabriel A. Huerta

8. RETROFITTING THE AMERICAN DREAM by Artur Nesterenko Alexandrovich

9. superNODE by tyler hopf

10. Huludao Beach Exhibit Center by META-Project

11. House in a pinewood by sundaymorning

12. Won Dharma Center by Hanrahan Meyers Architects

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Archinect's Top 12 School Profiles for '12

2013-01-03T00:49:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited School Profiles during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Columbia University

2. Pratt Institute

3. Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

4. Harvard University

5. Rice University

6. Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA)

7. The Cooper Union

8. University at Buffalo

9. Parsons The New School for Design

10. Cornell University

11. Woodbury University

12. Yale University

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Archinect's Top 12 People Profiles for '12

2013-01-03T00:47:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited People Profiles during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Orhan Ayyüce

2. Tyler Hopf

3. Joann Lui

4. Natalie Hardbattle

5. Sean McGuire

6. Kimberly V.K.H. Nguyen

7. Donna Sink

8. Betsy Cole

9. Artur Nesterenko Alexandrovich

10. Daniel Kidd

11. Sara Gaskari

12. Katherine York

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Archinect's Top 12 Firm Profiles for '12

2013-01-03T00:46:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Firm Profiles during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. OMA

2. Wiel Arets Architects

3. Marmol Radziner

4. Diller Scofidio + Renfro

5. Allied Works Architecture

6. Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors

7. Safdie Architects

8. Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)

9. Grimshaw Architects

10. 1100 Architect

11. Gensler

12. Platform for Architecture + Research (PAR)

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Archinect's Top 12 Blogs for '12

2013-01-02T00:55:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Blogs during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Harvard GSD M.Arch.I (Lian)

2. design/buildLAB - Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design

3. The Architectural Venn Diagram

4. Indo Inquisition - 13 weeks in India

5. University of Illinois Chicago (Matthew) - The Shape of Cool

6. Stocking the City - The Architecture and Infrastructure of Public Food Markets

7. mal-practice - the architecture of constructing a practice

8. designHUSTLE - hustling my way to the top of the design world, one sketch at a time

9. Harvard GSD (bryan boyer)

10. Finding my first job - Brian Henry (M.Arch, U of Idaho, 2011)

11. Just an Intern - our architectural life inbetween

12. Tangential Fabrications - or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Computer

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Archinect's Top 12 Blog Posts for '12

2013-01-02T00:53:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Blog posts during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. // Architectural LOLCATS

2. Ruins of an Alternate Future (Jinhua Architecture Park)

3. Unpaid internships are so hot right now

4. Top Architectural Record award for Guangzhou Opera House? Really?

5. Architecture Ryan Gosling

6. Wang Shu/Amateur Architecture

7. Live Blog: Rem Koolhaas

8. the cold cruel numbers for upcoming graduates...

9. EPA Competition Final Board: Draft 1

10. skills vs need vs fees

11. House na by Sou Fujimoto

12. // Trends in Generative Design

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Archinect's Top 12 Live Blogs for '12

2013-01-02T00:51:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Live Blog posts during 2012, all authored by our live blogger extraordinaire Lian Chikako Chang at Harvard School of Architecture. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Rem Koolhaas

2. Patrik Schumacher

3. Wang Shu on "Building a Diverse World Following the Natural Way"

4. “Design Technologies as Agents of Change,” with Bock, Seletsky, Oxman, Rocker, and Bechthold.

5. Diana Balmori and Joel Sanders on Landscape and Architecture

6. Preston Scott Cohen speaks with Nicolai Ouroussoff about his new Herta and Paul Amir Building, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

7. Scott Cohen and Nader Tehrani, "my house is better than your house"

8. Toyo Ito, "What Was Metabolism? Reflections on the Life of Kiyonori Kikutake"

9. Richard Sennett, "The Architecture of Cooperation"

10. Wang Shu, Geometry and Narrative of Natural Form

11. Saskia Sassen, "Immigrants and Citizens in the Global City"

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Archinect's Top 12 Features for '12

2013-01-01T11:21:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited Feature articles during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Tadao Ando Interview: 20 Minutes with a Master

2. Working out of the Box: Pinterest Co-Founder Evan Sharp

3. The Architecture Job Application Hints & Suggestions from Employers***

4. Composing the Personal Narrative Archinect's Official Portfolio Guide Part I: The Academic Portfolio***

5. Still Ugly After All These Years: A Close Reading of Peter Eisenman’s Wexner Center

6. How to Use Archinect to Get a Job; Part 1: Optimizing your Profile

7. Amateur Architecture: A New Vernacular?

8. Architecture and Design Graduates – How to Secure Your First Position – Part 1***

9. Color in Architecture — More Than Just Decoration

10. The CRIT: Thoughts on MoMA's Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

11. Manhattanisms : RAM(s) vs. REM

12. ShowCase: New Keelung Harbor Service Building

Titles marked with **...

Archinect's Top 12 News for '12

2013-01-01T11:19:00-05:00

Below are the 12 most visited News posts during 2012. For a full list of all of our top 12 lists for 2012, click here.

1. Master Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer passes away at 104

2. Lebbeus Woods dead at 72

3. First Frank Gehry Home Completed by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation

4. Plans for new Apple HQ, by Norman Foster, officially released

5. Atlantic City boardwalk collapse as Hurricane Sandy slams coast

6. Lego Architecture with Rem Koolhaas

7. Brad Pitt is now a furniture designer

8. Mayor Bloomberg announces new "micro-unit" apartment design competition

9. New National Stadium Japan Competition Unveils 11 Finalists

10. Brian Henry, SCI-Arc student, jumps to his death

11. Comparison of other major cities that can fit inside LA

12. First Images of the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

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Architecture in 2012: review of the year in buildings

2012-12-18T15:06:00-05:00

In a year that saw severe funding cuts to schools, libraries and arts buildings and the delivery of new housing rattling along at its lowest level since records began in the Twenties, there weren’t too many rays of light for British architecture. And yet one, at least, shone brightly.

5 changes that San Francisco can build on in 2012

2012-01-04T14:48:21-05:00

Construction cranes have only recently returned to the skyline and stasis remains the quo. Instead, here are five changes that I'd like to see in San Francisco. Some involve structures, but most involve sensibilities: the need to pay attention to the final product, rather than the process along the way.