How to work “I’m an Architect” into Casual Conversation

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Via James Stamp from Life Without a Building, these are AIA recruitment posters.
According to a survey, architects are sexy! It appears that AIA is giving a pretty bad lesson on how to pick up chicks. Do females go crazy when a person says ” I am an architect.”
Here’s [...]

Architecture Comics

A friend of my emailed me this really funny comics, I love these archi-comics, anymore? Please email it to me and I’ll share it with all the readers of mirage studio. Please! More comics can be found at the Architecture Humor section.
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Moving Houses

Image Source: Fogonazos
Peter Green House, at Brown University, America, was moved last summer approximately 450 feet away from the existing location, moving an architecture is not a new far-fetching concept, it has been around for a while. My lecturer did mention in class on the concept of movable houses in New Zealand, he told us [...]

Rome’s Trevi Fountain

Image Source : Wikipedia - Trevi Fountain
“A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. A symbol, in and of itself is powerless, but with enough people behind it, blowing up a building can change the world.” - Steve Moore
It may or may not be the [...]

Architecture - A Glimpse Into My Past

Image by Darren Braun, Text by Calvin Ngan
Architecture students, we’re the model maker, draftsperson, site surveyor, designer, presenter, graphic designer for presentation boards, and 3D artist for animation and building illustration.
I told my mom that I am pretty much exhausted with studies, I could not take it anymore and she said same goes for Lawyers, [...]

The Zero Gravity Pen

Image Source: Ebbe
Brian Clark from Teaching Sells has this interesting story on simplicity:
Back when NASA started launching manned spacecraft in the 1960s, they found out that the astronauts couldn’t use pens to write with while in space. The ink wouldn’t flow down through the pen in a zero-gravity environment. NASA decided to retain a [...]

Antonio Gaudi’s Quote

I thought Architects were Kings and Emperors, boy, I was wrong again. According to Antonio Gaudi, some of us are God and Goddess.

Antonio Gaudi is the genius behind the unfinished masterpiece, Sagrada Família. Sagrada Família building works are expected to be completed around 2026, the 100th anniversary of Gaudi’s death. With the aid of computer [...]

Naypyidaw, Burma’s New Capital

According to Danny Lyon, designing cities was the job of emperors and kings during the medieval age, today; it takes a dictator to build a city. Burma’s new capital city Naypyidaw, or also known as Abode of Kings in Burmese , is being built about 460km north of the old capital, Yangon. The official explanation [...]