July 2012
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american writers museum concept plan →
Development of this concept plan was made possible through grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Stead Family Foundation. These grants funded intensive and inspirational development charettes in Chicago, New York, and Boston. Participants included a diverse mix of scholars, writers, publishers, designers, and museum professionals. The leadership of the American Writers Museum...
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10 Pieces of Advice for Young Writers →
theatlantic:
Care about things. Show it. Be funny, barbed, and pointed when needed. Slick is easy; don’t be slick.
Confidence and arrogance will both protect you when people yell at you. One is vital and one is poisonous.
Learn to be your own devil’s advocate. Interrogate your own arguments. Interrogate your point of view.
Successful writers can play loud and soft and can make a variety of...
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stipo →
Introduction to Stipo
Stipo advises, develops, coaches and supplies training. Its operating area consists of combinations of spatial planning and strategy with economic development, culture, welfare, sport, recreation and tourism. The Stipo approach was developed at the planology department of the University of Amsterdam and it is the basis for tackling spatial and social problems in innovative...
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(Almost) Everything You Need to Know about Culture... →
Last week, I was reorganizing my library and realized that some of my favorite books are ones that introduced me to subjects I either admired but knew little about or was unaware of altogether. The kinds of reads that profoundly enrich one’s lens on the world. So I thought I’d put together a modest reading list of essential primers for, well, everything. Okay, maybe not everything — I’m keenly...
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National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) →
The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) is the sole agency authorized to accredit US professional degree programs in architecture. Since most state registration boards in the United States require any applicant for licensure to have graduated from a NAAB-accredited program, obtaining such a degree is an essential aspect of preparing for the professional practice of architecture.
There...
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LICENSURE IN ARCHITECTURE
Most people in the United States need the following things to become a licensed architect:
Graduation from a university or college that is accredited by National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB) in architecture. For a complete list of colleges in the United States and Canada, go here.
A professional degree. This is either the Bachelor’s of Architecture, Master’s of Architecture,...
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Project Ingeborg
Strangely, the Austrian city of Klagenfurt doesn’t have a public library, even though it hosts the Festival of German-Language Literature. However, an initiative dubbed Project Ingeborg is turning the municipality into a book repository of sorts with 70 QR code and NFC chip-equipped stickers. Plastered throughout town, they direct users to web pages where they can download public domain...
