STEPS FOR SUCCESSFUL SEMESTER Last week, we posted an article entitled, Academic Success: 4 Steps to Earning Straight As. Now, we share steps for a successful semester and college career. PROFESSORS: With regards to your faculty, you are STRONGLY encouraged to meet with them during their office hours. We suggest you do this early in…
AFSF SATURDAY DESIGN STUDIO FALL 2024 The Architectural Foundation of San Francisco (AFSF) announces AFSF Saturday Design Studio 2024 , a distance-learning workshop in sustainable design and architecture for high school students. Participants will learn professional digital design tools, receive 1-on-1 mentoring with an architect or engineer, and create a portfolio of photo-realistic and video renderings of their original…
ACADEMIC SUCCESS: 4 STEPS TO EARNING STRAIGHT As With some exception, many if not most architecture programs (universities) have started their fall semester for the 2024-2035 academic year. As such, you are become adjusted (in more ways than one can imagine) as you begin the semester. Regardless of your academic success in high school, starting…
HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY Just a little over six (6) years ago, ARCHCareersGuide.com was launched in its current format. Below was the first blog essay from August 11, 2018. https://www.archcareersguide.com/1568-2/ While ARCHCareersGuide.com was officially launched in August 2018, its concept started way much earlier in the early 2000s in its earlier rendition – ARCHCareers.org. Since launching,…
CAREER DAYS / COLLEGE FAIRS 2024 Over the coming weeks and months, we will share a series of essays on the path of pursuing an architectural education on your way to becoming an architect; below, we outlin the different paths to an accredited architectural degree plus resources for researching architecture programs the criteria for an…
CAREER PROFILES UPDATE ARCHCareersGuide.com is pleased to post additional Career Profiles, an additional resource on our website. As we stated back then, reading profiles of architects is a great way to learn more about the profession of architecture. Career Profiles http://www.archcareersguide.com/profiles/ Career profiles of architecture students, emerging professionals, educators, and practitioners are a wonderful…
“FROM RECESSION TO LEADERSHIP: MY JOURNEY THROUGH HIGHER EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL GROWTH” As in the past, we are pleased to share another guest essay from Jessica Pagan Aello, principal with Hanbury. What is special about Jessica is having her career plan (2008) from her course, Careers in Architecture from the University of Maryland which she…
NCARB BY THE NUMBERS 2024 Recently, NCARB released its annual “By the Numbers.” Today, we introduce you to NCARB by the Numbers. – https://www.ncarb.org/nbtn2024 As stated on the its website, the 2024 edition of NCARB by the Numbers, “the data reported in this publication was captured at the end of the 2023 calendar year, and…
FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY Another guest essay from Katherine Beisler, LEED AP BD+CM who discusses her career in architecture and direct focus on sustainability. Do you have an interest in sustainability? Well, do read about her career path and learn how to make it your own. From a young age, I knew I wanted to be…
NAAB REPORT ON ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION Recently NAAB (National Architectural Accrediting Board) released its annual reports on Architecture Education. As shared on the NAAB website: “This report, to be produced annually, shares the accreditation decisions made by the NAAB in the previous year, provides a review of the aggregated statistics provided by each accredited program, and…