Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 27, 2015

9 Architectural Sketches – Keep or Throw Away? Published : 12 January 2015 Views : 17,486 Why You Should Read it : Do Architects hang on to their sketches? I generate a lot of sketches in the process of being an architect and historically speaking, I throw them away.

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30X40 Design Workshop

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Before I enrolled in architecture school in the late summer of 1991 (has it been 32 years?), As architecture schools greet new students this fall, I thought it would be fun to revisit that list of “must-haves” after having practiced architecture for 30 years. What’s stood the test of time in my practice?

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EntreArchitect

MAY 9, 2021

Every potential client who architects serve under 40 has created a software derived sketch. Take those tools and multiply their capacities by 1,000 in the coming decades, and architecture changes. I believe architectural education needs to train architects to recognize and harness our innate desire to create.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So, for the culinarily committed, precision-passionate architect, this might well be the perfect present. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School. With the labyrinthine etchings, the exclusive grey and natural serving board presents crudités charcuterie and slices of bread in the beautiful Prairie style.

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Architecture Chat

JANUARY 9, 2021

Five years of a learning experience The mind of an architecture student is indeed a cauldron filled with fretting emotions, art, thought-provoking ideas, stories, and myriad experiences. Five years spent in an architecture school are nothing less than a roller-coaster that persuades you to find hidden values and varying purposes.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” October 26th, 2012 “This is what my office did for lunch” #beer and napkin #sketches. August 10th, 2013 “concept assembly sketch for a modern house I will feature on LoaA” #vegetativeroof. August 23rd, 2013 “and so it begins … #design #sketch #architect” #architecture.

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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

For those in this situation, and even for those who do have an architecture background, here’s my advice: In the summer before starting school, spend a ton of time in the library, and an equal amount of time visiting buildings, sketching, and going to lectures and events. Visit Each Architecture Graduate School .

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

On November 14th, I will be moderating a panel made up of the jurors, who will be selecting the winners in this years delineation competition, where each panelist will present their work and engage in a lively conversation on current trends in architectural delineation, the profession of CG Architects, techniques and technology.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2019

In fact, there are four of us here and we all know each other from our time together from the University of Texas School of Architecture. Evidence presented this weekend would suggest that we are all still about 24 years old despite the realities that we are all considerably older.

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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

For those in this situation, and even for those who do have an architecture background, here’s my advice: In the summer before starting school, spend a ton of time in the library, and an equal amount of time visiting buildings, sketching, and going to lectures and events. Pay attention to the built environment around you.

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Architecture Quote

JULY 13, 2020

The reality of dating an architect might involve more coffee than champagne, and looking at the same sketch for 2 months. To make up for their smaller budget, they can craft the best presents. And anything else architecture related. Besides books, the flat is also covered in anything other architecture-related.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

Your future in architecture depends on your ability to learn and UN-learn – letting go of how things are and imagining new possibilities. Being a successful architect takes more than creating a wonderful idea and presenting it to your client. His signature is a sketch of one of my favorite Ando works, the Church of The Light.

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Lines on Paper

JUNE 12, 2021

It is not directly related to their training in school at the present time but it certainly opens their eyes to the many facets of our profession. l Your portfolio which should contain a few select projects that best describe you, your design interest and skills.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2015

So, now that I was 5 and my future was all mapped out thanks to a piece of wood, clearly I spent my formative years studying the architectural masters, sketching, building models, playing with concrete and 2×4’s.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It also presents the more than 160 drawings and photographs of Ando’s work that were exhibited there in 2018. Having grown up in suburban Chicago and been in architecture school in Kansas at the time, I visited the room on trips back home, seeing it fairly regularly after moving back to Chicago in 1997. Whittaker, PhD.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Fast forward a few years – the college process is now complete and architectural schools are churning out extremely creative graduates, ready to take on the design world … except few graduates will actually get to work on “BIG IDEA” design projects.

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Architects Tales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Backing up a bit, when I graduated from architecture school, I returned to Wisconsin to look for a job with an architectural firm to continue my apprenticeship. I chose to attend the University of Minnesota because, located in Minneapolis, it was the closest school to my parent’s home in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. [3]

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2017

If you are an architectural student – or a young architecture school graduate – Architectural Portfolios are extremely important. Resumes are important, they can help you get an interview, but few people coming out of architecture school will ever get hired based on their zippy resume.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 18, 2017

The most successful projects though are the ones where we fully understand the people living and working within the architecture we design. Before we grab the roll of trace and start sketching with the Sharpie, we gather as much information about the users of our buildings as possible. So, “I know what I’m doin’ too.”

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I suppose that this seems fortuitous to some people but there were times when this presented serious complications. 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.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 24, 2013

The most successful projects though are the ones where we fully understand the people living and working within the architecture we design. Before we grab the roll of trace and start sketching with the Sharpie, we gather as much information about the users of our buildings as possible. So, “I know what I’m doin’ too.”

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Life of an Architect

MAY 4, 2014

Graeme K You mentioned that your blog is getting young people excited about becoming an architect; I’m now weeks away from completing my final year in architecture school in Scotland and there have been many late nights and moments of doubt throughout. Stopping by your blog has on many occasions inspired me to keep going.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 13, 2014

Rainy Sundays are great days to sketch and work out problems in your head…even if you’re half watching Man of Steel while doing so… Kerry Hogue Man of Steel is the exact movie my one son and I watched this past rainy Sunday! Sometimes the best thing to do is to kick back and enjoy the present. thanks bob.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Architect: Aldo van Eyck completed 1960 A beauty not in the mystic and distant sense, but in the attainable and present sense. It was my first year in architecture school at UH, and it was in the Architecture History class from Prof. Ryan Thomason - Amsterdam Orphanage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

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. But that’s not really the entire story is it?

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 30, 2015

Let’s pretend that you are in architecture school – maybe you just started, maybe you’ve been there for a while – I’m not sure that it matters for today’s discussion. All the information you choose to present should support the big idea. In other words, take the feedback and move on.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The School of Architecture at Taliesin has been a pillar both in the architecture world as well as Arizona and Wisconsin where Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna invited architecture students to live and work with them and immerse themselves in ‘organic architecture’. Design presentation see here.

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