Architectural Services

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in planning and designing residential, institutional, leisure, commercial, and industrial buildings and structures by applying knowledge of design, construction procedures, zoning regulations, building codes, and building materials.

Landscape Architectural Services

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in planning and designing the development of land areas for projects, such as parks and other recreational areas; airports; highways; hospitals; schools; land subdivisions; and commercial, industrial, and residential areas, by applying knowledge of land characteristics, location of buildings and structures, use of land areas, and design of landscape projects.

Architect
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a building's construction. The word "architect" (Latin: architectus) derives from the Greek arkhitekton (arkhi (chief) + tekton (builder))") . In the broadest sense an architect is a person who translates the user's needs into physical, built solution. An architect must thoroughly understand the building and operational codes under which his or her design must conform. That degree of knowledge is necessary so that he or she is not apt to omit any necessary requirements, or produce improper, conflicting, ambiguous, or confusing requirements. Architects must understand the various methods available to the builder for building the client's structure, so that he or she can negotiate with the client to produce a best possible compromise of the results desired within explicit cost and time boundaries. The idea of what constitutes a result desired varies among architects, as the values and attitudes which underlie modern architecture differ both between the schools of thought which influence architecture and between individual practising architects.

Architects must frequently make building design and planning decisions that affect the safety and well being of the general public. Architects are required to obtain specialized education and documented work experience to obtain licensure to practice architecture, similar to the requirements for other professionals, with requirements for practice varying from place to place.

• Archibot - Architecture portal and meta search engine powered by Mamma. Includes select list of online resources, forum and news headlines from around the net.
• Archinform - International architectural database listing thousands of built and unbuilt projects. 20th-century architecture is the main theme.
• Archiseek - An architecture directory by the team who created Archeire, with the bonuses of planning news, architectural competition announcements, some European city guides and forums.
• Architecture for Humanity - A volunteer non-profit organization set up to promote architecture and design to seek solutions to global social and humanitarian crisis.
• The Architecture Hate Page - Vote for the most hated project and submit your own choice. Forum for fury about bad architecture. This unusual site is the brain-child of architects in the Netherlands, but the hate is international.
• Architecturecafe - An international architecture portal available in six languages. News, listings and links to institutions, organizations, firms, events and competitions.
• Archpedia - Architectural encyclopedia includes a style guide, biographies of famous architects, featured firms, news, articles, glossary, and quizzes. Offers a newsletter by email.
• Design Community - This architecture and design web portal provides forums for public communication on world architecture, sustainable design, 3D design and 3D computer graphics.
• Design4Design - Online resource centre for professionals in the architecture and interior design industries. News, events, features and listings.
• The Fat Channel - Brings you architecture, fine art, and urban speculations. Architecture for the Airbag Generation.
• Floornature - Interviews with architects, news, flooring projects with man made tiles. Manufacturing process, environmental impact and international standards for ceramic tiles and man made stones.
• Godden Structural Engineering Slide Library - Collection of 900 engineering slides from around the world. Historic and modern structures: beams, arches, cable and suspension, domes and shells, columns, frames, grids, slabs and trusses.
• The Holistic Architecture Net - Promotes built environments that are harmonious with their environment. Introduces Feng Shui, Platonic forms, sacred geometry, sustainability and Vedic building. Links to related sites.
• The International Network for Multiple Space Use - A variety of mutiple space use-projects from all over the world within an international project database, information about the association and related links.
• Monolithic Dome Institute - Provides information on building reinforced concrete domes as earthquake, tornado and hurricane resistant housing, churches and storage. Workshops and conferences, gallery of examples, faq and news.
• New 7 Wonders - This project and voting booth to select the new seven wonders of the world also gives condensed, illustrated descriptions of the original ancient wonders.
• Probert Encyclopaedia: Architecture - An illustrated a-z of architectural styles and terminology.
• Talkin' About Architecture - A Yahoo group to express opinions or ask questions about architecture and art. Registration required.
• TinyHouses - Examples of tiny houses and out buildings used for guest quarters, vacation, office space, or study.
• Underground Buildings: Architecture and Environment - An exploration of the viability of underground buildings in contemporary America, with some discussion of international examples.
• The Virtual Study Tour - The New Zealand School of Architecture presents computer models of a selection of buildings ancient, modern and proposed, including a sustainable eco-house.