Practical Experience: An Architecture Students Guide To Internship And The Year Out (architectural Students Handbooks)

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The year out, or internship, in a professional practice can be the most rewarding experience in an architectural student's education. It can also be a shock to the system to find that architectural working practices are very different to architectural study. This book provides a beginner's guide to professional practice and a step-by-step guide on how to find the placement that best suits your goals. It is the fourth title in the successful 'Seriously Useful Guides...' series.In order to give you a real insight into professional experience, this guide includes reallife case studies from students who have been through the experience and from practices that have taken them on. It guides you through the steps of finding a placement, outlines the norms and expectations for internship in different countries, and discusses codes of office behavior and professional ethics. Contemporary architecturalpractices are becoming increasingly diverse and this guide outlines some Practical experience/Internship choices, providing cases studies of award wining firms that offer practical experience. These case studies range from conventional practices based on the art of building, to practices based on digital media or contemporary urbanism. Finally, the term 'critical practice' is becoming increasingly important, and the book provides some definitions and examples of critically based architectural practices.Also in the Seriously Useful Guides Series:* The Crit* The The Portfolio* The Dissertation * Provides a valuable step-by-step guide on how to make the most of your time in practice* Prepares you for what to expect from an office and lets you know what an office expects from you* Includes interviews with students, professionals and tutors who have been through the experience, to give you the best, first hand, advice

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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 • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON • NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • 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. Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’ Science and Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone: ( 44) (0) 1865 843830; fax: ( 44) (0) 1865 853333; e-mail: