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2021/JAN/18

Andrew Ross Thomson

Architects, Air and SarsCov2

Architects, Air and SarsCov2 We are approaching nearly a year of life with COVID-19, yet the pandemic appears to be only worsening. By the time this gets published, worldwide deaths will have...

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co2

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2020/APR/15

Parham K

Responding to the COVID crisis

The desire to answer the call for crowd-sourced manufacture of PPE was unanimous throughout the office With the COVID-19 pandemic touching every corner of peoples’ lives, bringing radical...

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#shiftingparadigms

#ppe

#digitalfabrication

#3dprinting

Article (text and images)

2020/APR/09

Parham K

Camp Covid

There is no question that the COVID-19 crisis has affected vast sectors of the economy and the public in adverse ways, but in Architecture, as in economics, there are models of more resilient...

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architecture as camping

ephemeralization

prefab

tiny homes

shiftingparadigms

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2020/SEP/30

Roddy Handa

Copyright has no place in Arch...

My name is Andy Thomson; I’m an architect with Thomson Architecture, Inc. and the OAA’s VP Strategic. I wanted to share this article, written by Alberta architect & lawyer Roddy Handa (with...

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digital twins

Article (text and images)

2020/APR/30

OAA

3D printing PPE

I bought my first 3D printer in 2013. At the time, I wanted to use it to produce 3D models for my small practice. Since then, I’ve purchased three more printers and printed thousands of items, (mostly...

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#shiftingparadigms

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2020/APR/23

Tamara King

Bunny House Plans

When the COVID-19 quarantine first started, one of the biggest challenges my wife and I faced was to find ways to keep our daughters busy (10 and 13 years old). We felt this could be a good...

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#shiftingparadigms

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