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Build On: Inspiration and Knowledge for Making Entrepreneurial Ideas Happen

The Chicago Architectural Club Announces the follow up event to The Un-Competition Project: Build On, January 19th at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

IF YOU BUILD IT
The Un-Competition Project asks architects and designers to invent a project, design it, and figure out how to get it built. The intent is to emphasize design entrepreneurship and built work. Both are commonly overlooked yet essential in establishing oneself in the profession. But what does it mean to be a design entrepreneur? And how do you get work built if you’ve never done it before? Who will answer those…

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The A-List for Digital Design & Fabrication: Creating the 21st Century Facade

The Architect’s Newspaper and the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York have teamed up to create an impressive lineup for the Metals in Construction 2012 Facade Conference entitled: “Creating the 21st Century Facade”. The intention of the conference is: “to help designers and builders understand the ways in which technology can transform design aspirations into reality”.

It is a 1-day conference followed by a 1-day workshop taking place Thursday, February 16 – Friday February 17. They’ve brought together the “who’s who” of digital design and fabrication for both the conference and the workshops. Definitely 2 days you shouldn’t miss……

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2012: A brilliant year for learning architecture and design software.

Black Spectacles is live! Now you can learn Revit, learn Photoshop, learn Sketchup, learn CAD, learn 3ds Max Design and more– in one place, online, 24/7.

Over a year in the making, Black Spectacles is now live! I had been frustrated with how difficult and disorderly it was to learn and keep up to date with architectural software. I was never going to teach myself something through a book, I thought that free online tutorials were unorganized and thin on content, and that the ones that were well organized were kind of generic. I had gotten lucky and my firm…

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Mission

The adoption of digital technologies has been slow and un-even in the Profession of Architecture despite their advantages in efficiency, quality, and access to creative languages that are not available otherwise. The main reason for this is a lack of access to flexible, affordable and high quality courses in design technology.

We have built Black Spectacles to be the online platform for learning architecture software, with memberships that are affordable, with a platform that provides the flexibility that architects need, and with courses that not only cover software, but how to use multiple digital tools together to get the job done.

Black Spectacles’ mission is to advance the creative potential of the profession of architecture by giving everyone access to all of the tools- in order to change the dialogue from “what tools are you using” to “what are you doing with the tools”.

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Build On: Inspiration and Knowledge for Making Entrepreneurial Ideas Happen

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The A-List for Digital Design & Fabrication: Creating the 21st Century Facade

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2012: A brilliant year for learning architecture and design software.

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