Prelims.qxd 9/29/04 4:01 PM Page i Practical Experience Prelims.qxd 9/29/04 4:01 PM Page ii Prelims.qxd 9/29/04 4:01 PM Page iii Seriously useful guides Practical Experience An Architecture Student’s Guide to Internship and the Year Out Igor Marjanovic´, Katerina Rüedi Ray, and Jane Tankard AMSTERDAM (cid:127) BOSTON (cid:127) HEIDELBERG (cid:127) LONDON (cid:127) NEW YORK (cid:127) OXFORD PARIS (cid:127) SAN DIEGO (cid:127) SAN FRANCISCO (cid:127) SINGAPORE (cid:127) SYDNEY (cid:127) TOKYO Architectural Press is an imprint of Elscvier Prelims.qxd 9/29/04 4:01 PM Page iv Architectural Press An imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 30 Corporate Drive, Burlington, MA 01803 First published 2005 Copyright ©2005, Igor Marjanovic´, Katerina Rüedi Ray, and Jane Tankard.All rights reserved The right of Igor Marjanovic´, Katerna Rüedi Ray, and Jane Tankard to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provision of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1T 4LP.Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher. 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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 0 7506 6206 9 For information on all Architectural Press publication visit our web site at http://books.elsevier.com Typeset by Charon Tec.Pvt.Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in Great Britain Prelims.qxd 9/29/04 4:01 PM Page v Contents About the Authors ix Acknowledgements xi List of Illustrations xv 1 Introduction 1 The Handbook 1 Section One: Where to Go 5 1 Practicing in the Built Environment 7 The Architectural Office 8 Computer-Aided Design and Digital Skills 9 Some Common Terms 10 2 The Architectural Office 16 Office Types 16 Offices and Building Types 20 Other Kinds of Architectural Office 21 3 Other Types of Office 33 Contractors, Construction, and Project Management 33 Engineering 35 Interior Design 36 Landscape Architecture 38 Urban Design and/or Planning 39 Surveying, Property Management, and Real Estate 40 What Next? 42 Prelims.qxd 9/29/04 4:01 PM Page vi vi Contents 4 Critical and Emerging Practices 43 What is Critical Practice? 43 5 The Year Out and Beyond:Becoming an Architect in the UK 54 Governing Bodies 54 The Setting and Monitoring of Professional Education and Qualifications by ARB and RIBA 56 Becoming a Registered Architect in the UK 56 The Professional Experience and Development Process 59 The Professional Experience and Development Record 64 Finally:Preparing for Part 3 of the Professional Examination 69 How a Foreign Architect Can Apply to Register as a UK Architect 71 A Final Note 72 6 Internship and Beyond:Becoming an Architect in the USA 73 The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards 73 American Institute of Architects 74 The Establishment and Monitoring of Professional Qualifications 75 Becoming a Registered Architect in the USA:The Basics 75 A Final Note 95 7 International Experience 96 Becoming an Architect Abroad 96 Working Abroad 98 Section Two: Case Studies 107 8 UK Case Studies 109 Allford Hall Monaghan Morris 109 Alsop Architects 111 Arup Associates 113 Boyarsky Murphy Architects 114 Davis Langdon & Everest 116 deRijke Marsh Morgan Architects 117 Gollifer Langston Architects 119 Houlton Architects 120 Prelims.qxd 9/29/04 4:01 PM Page vii Contents vii 9 US Case Studies 123 Garofalo Architects 123 Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck Architecture 126 Mark Robbins 128 O’Donnell Wicklund Pigozzi and Peterson Architects Inc. 130 Weller Architects 132 Wheeler Kearns Architects 134 Xavier Vendrell Studio 136 10 Other International Case Studies 139 Africa 139 Asia 143 Europe 149 Latin America 164 A Final Note 166 Section Three: How to Get There 167 11 Finding a Job 169 How Can You Find the Right Job for You? 169 The Application 174 The Interview Portfolio 177 The Job Offer and the Employment Agreement 179 12 Office Cultures 182 Getting Organized 182 Taking Responsibility for Learning 183 Getting Really Good Experience 184 Codes, Norms, and Expectations 186 Collegiality and Professional Conduct 191 Equal Employment Opportunity Legislation 192 13 Afterwards 194 Coping with the Termination of Employment 194 Where Does Your Job Lead You to? 196 Giving Back 196 Section Four: Appendices 199 Appendix A:Readings on Practice 201 Prelims.qxd 9/29/04 4:01 PM Page viii viii Contents Appendix B:Resources for Information on International Architectural Practice 203 International 203 North America 203 Central and South America 204 Europe 206 Africa 210 Asia 210 Oceania 212 Index 213 Prelims.qxd 9/29/04 4:01 PM Page ix About the Authors Igor Marjanovic´is director of the Core Design Programme and assist- ant professor of architecture at Iowa State University. Together with Katerina Rüedi Ray, he is principal of ReadyMade Studio, an interdiscip- linaryart and design practice, which is one of 10 selected exhibitors in the architectural exhibition Ten Visions:Chicago Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago.Marjanovic´’s work – as a teacher, a designer, and a writer – focuses on the appropriation of montage practices and critical theories in design.He has co-authored The Portfolio(Architectural Press, Oxford).His current research focuses on Alvin Boyarsky’s influence on the twentieth century architectural education and practice. Marjanovic´ graduated summa cum laude from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and completed his diploma thesis at the Moscow Institute of Architecture. He also received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was awarded the UIC/Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Scholarship.Marjanovic´ is a Ph.D.candidate at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK. Katerina Rüedi Ray is an Architects’Registration Board (ARB) regis- tered architect and the director of the School of Art at Bowling Green State University, USA, and, with Igor Marjanovic´, principal of ReadyMade Studio. From 1996 to 2002 she was the director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.She studied archi- tecture at the University of Dundee, the Architectural Association in London, and has a masters and a doctoral degree in architecture from University College London, UK. She has taught architectural design and theory at the Architectural Association, The Bartlett School and
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