July 2012
2 posts
FAREWELL, BUT NOT GOODBYE
It’s amazing what you can achieve in half a decade.
I started at Lawrence McPherson Associates when I was just 19 years old. I’d stayed on at the University of Paisley until the summer in order to finish my year and obtain some type of qualification, in case I needed it to fall back on. Forensic Science. That was a laugh.
I started on the 11th June, just a week after moving home...
ARE YOU GETTING THE MOST FROM LINKEDIN?
With Su Butcher (@Su_Butcher) coming to Glasgow this Autumn to give workshops on LinkedIn, I caught up with her to ask her a few questions and get my head around LinkedIn :
So Su, you started Just Practicing last year with the intention of helping architects and members of the construction industry. When did you get connected with LinkedIn, was it before Just Practising came in to being?
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May 2012
3 posts
FALLEN OUT WITH SUSTAINABILITY
Seriously. Sustainability is not a real word. It is common sense re-packaged as a buzzword and sold off as the latest earth changing idea.
That just about sums up the over consuming attitude of human beings in the twenty first century. Here, have a bottle of water for £1.50!
Sustainable design is a phrase invented by a generation of guilt ridden people, digging themselves out of their previous...
ARCHITECTURE & FEMININITY
I wrote this blog a couple of months ago, but for fear I’d come across as a ranting feminist I put off finishing it, and put it on the back burner.
With the recent success of the Architects’ Journal Women in Architecture Awards last month, the outrage over the 21 all male speakers at the RIAS Convention this month and stumbling upon Parlour archiparlour.org – it made me remember and...
March 2012
1 post
KONY NO DAE THAT
I was really moved by watching KONY 2012 this week, if you haven’t done so already you can watch it here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc
In summary it’s a short film just under thirty minutes created by a charity organisation called Invisible Children. It aims to raise awareness for the No 1 War Criminal in the world known as Joseph Kony. His crimes against humanity...
February 2012
2 posts
The Young Professionals Guide to Starting Twitter
My good friend Frenchie @Frenchieonair is a Radio Presenter for WestFM @WestFM in Ayrshire and is relatively new to twitter.
Over dinner one evening I managed to convince him that twitter was a valuable tool from a professional point of view. We agreed : Facebook is for friends and family, Twitter is for your career. The problem is, once convinced, he wasn’t entirely sure how to...
THE ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS NETWORK
This Monday marked the launch of a new UK wide student body - The Architecture Students Network (ASN) which looks to replace Archaos founded in 1999. The ASN will be an independent network of student representatives from the schools of architecture within the United Kingdom. They will focus on supporting and promoting architecture student events, harnessing student opinion, and engaging...
January 2012
5 posts
THE YOUNG ARCHITECT'S CAREER
My thoughts in response to Arch Daily’s blog posted on the 30th January 2012 ‘Practice 2.0 : Championing the young architect’s career, a lesson from technology startups’ by CASE (written by David Fano and Steve Sanderson)
http://www.archdaily.com/203841/practice-2-0-championing-the-young-architects-career-a-lesson-from-technology-startups/
Firstly, as true as...
STUDENT BECOMES TEACHER
With no idea what to expect I pulled up to Newton Primary School with a homemade consulting board game and a powerpoint prepared to give a short presentation to an unknown number of primary school children about Architects and what we do.
Of the small class, only a few turned up for the presentation but the computing suite With no idea what to expect I pulled up to Newton Primary School with...
December 2011
3 posts
Building Analogies & Personalities
Building Analogies
ARCHITECTURE is like the Human Body, there is a structure, internal services and an external skin.
INTERIOR DESIGN is like clothes, dressing up and creating personalities.
LIGHTING is like a pair of glasses or contacts, helping to see.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE is like the hairstyle, needs to be kept trimmed but can enhance the external appearance.
Building Personalities
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BOOKfactory Brief
I figured I should probably put up my brief before launching into sketches of my work. Have cut it down quite a bit, the GSA have long briefs.
In its heyday Penicuik was at the centre of the paper making industry, not only within its Scottish context but as a worldwide leader in the production and distribution of this vital commodity. The town’s location was fundamental in its development as a...
November 2011
8 posts
Architecture : The Patient Creative Discipline
Our world is constantly increasing at such a fast pace, everything is expected at the touch of a button. People expect more and more reading material, photographs, fashion, movies, TV programmes, youtube videos, podcasts, music, and they expect them almost immediately after they’ve savoured the last piece.
It has occurred to me that Architecture has got to be the most patient of all the...
The progression from Space Planner to Architect
I purchased a fantastic new book while in NY this summer, from Urban Outfitters of all places. It’s called ‘101 Things I learned in Architecture School’ by Matthew Frederick.
#13 states ”A space planner creates functional square footage for the office workers; an architect considers the nature of the work performed in the office environment, its meaning to the workers,...
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ArchitectMap is open to anyone and everyone in the AEC industry. Whether you are a Graduate just starting your journey in our industry or an experienced professional, we want to engage...
“Until recently, the received precepts of modern curatorial practice favoured the...”
– ‘Towards a Critical Regionalism : Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance’ by Kenneth Frampton
I like this. It’s a good quote for my ARThouse project.
welcome to my blog
Just a short hello and welcome to my blog. I shall be posting up some photos and sketches of my studies and inspirations. I hope you find it interesting!
