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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

The book is a fitting result of a building, the Petite École , that functions as an architecture school for children. Hundreds of those models — and nothing else — are on display in this brick of a book: five decades of built and unbuilt projects documented over a thousand pages.

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Three Lessons from Three Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

The building is documented at length in the "Contemporary Art" chapter, first in an essay by Rowan Moore ( from an eponymous book on the gallery published by Batsford in 2002) accompanied by photographs, and then in numerous pages of drawings and additional photographs. Spread from Juha Leiviskä 2000–2022 , courtesy of bookm-ark.fi

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The 14 Books Every Future Architect Should Read

EntreArchitect

When you are in the weeds of construction documents, RFI’s, AFP’s, and need a mind refresher, pick up Thinking Architecture. Tadao Ando Conversations With Students by Tadao Ando – Ando has always been one of my favorite architects since I “discovered” him at my undergrad architecture school library.

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I love that I have these documents, and I don’t think that having these in email form would allow the stories to contain the same sort of power. last night, i flew in to DCA for a visit with family, and Mom had pulled out several postcards from a trip i took to Europe in high school. Tim Barber Happy to see that my school Va.

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The Ultimate List of ARE 5.0 Study Materials: Part 1

Young Architect

Project Development and Documentation (PDD). Project Development and Documentation (PDD) – Developing the design and Construction Documentation Phase of the project. Many people have said it reminds them of being in architecture school, except now we’re focused on exams. . The Ultimate List of 5.0

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Architectural Graphic Standards | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

For the purposes of today’s article, I am going to assume that all architectural drawings are correct and serve their purpose of conveying intent, scope and quantity. When I graduated from architecture school in 199[mumble-mumble], computers were not that prevalent. Big thick black walls look great in parti diagrams.

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Should I be an Architect? | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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. I would suggest a third question, to complete the Venn diagram: What does the world need?

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