Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 28, 2014

I’ve been around the architectural block more times than I care to admit at this stage of my career and I have learned a few things along the way. One upside of working many jobs is that you get to experience all sorts of different project types, firm sizes, and management techniques. Why the change of heart?

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 15, 2016

What About Sketching? I’m not sure that it’s that big a deal nowadays – and it would seem that most graduating architecture students don’t really know how to sketch based on the portfolio’s I’ve seen. Presentation skills are far more important than anybody in school actually realizes.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Ah yes, and all that very contemporary sounding stuff was "fast tracked" in spite of production via the age old techniques of T-squares, ink on vellum and freehand renderings. Such sketches are what I recommend my students to prepare if they want to test if they really understand their own design.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

The Not so Sexy Side of Architecture Practicing architecture for 99.9% The practice of architecture is more than sketching on trace paper, parti diagrams, deciding what pens to draw with, groupies, and last-minute trips to Vegas. Maybe you shouldn’t be in architecture school … you don’t have what it takes.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

When I first started architecture school as a freshman in college, I didn’t have the focus or maturity I needed to tackle the curriculum and I ended up having a serious identity crisis when I was 19 years old. But , yes , I’d love to learn more new techniques. I know I believe it. Doing my Btech in India.

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