Life of an Architect
OCTOBER 23, 2013
Home / Life in General / Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Bob Borson — October 24, 2013 — 38 Comments 23 years ago, as a fourth year architecture student, I spent the Fall semester traveling around Western Europe soaking in all the architectural wonders I could find.
A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
MARCH 21, 2022
This monograph is their first, and instead of providing exhaustive coverage of their work, On Rigor presents a baker's dozen of buildings completed between 2011 and 2021, or just the latter half of the studio's two decades.
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Architects Tales
APRIL 1, 2019
From the various AIA firm surveys over the years, a consistent pattern has emerged that showed 90% or so of architectural firms are small, with only one or two architects as sole proprietors. On the other hand, the remaining 10% of the firms employ the vast majority of architects working as employees instead of principals. . …
Life of an Architect
OCTOBER 30, 2013
First thing I learned to do on my very first “job” at an architectural firm Mark Mc Swain Most “City” folding formats are based on whether the P&D/Engineering Office file cabinets are Letter versus Legal sized format. Cam Ahhhhh such joy it brings to see someone still knows the right way to do this.
Architizer
MARCH 3, 2022
One could spend hours thumbing through the renderings of United Design Architects , or UDA, the Tehran and Portland based architecture firm co-founded by Iranian architect Raha Ashrafi. s Royal Institute of British Architects from 2011 to 2013. , both of which seek to redefine the relationship between cities, farms and nature.
Life of an Architect
FEBRUARY 9, 2014
This could be almost anything within the field of architecture – it doesn’t necessarily stick to one thing. Since I have typically championed the small architectural firm, I wear a lot of hats and can relate to most people who have some role to play. Something a master machine can’t make. Alan Manning Great!
Life of an Architect
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
I have almost always worked in small firms – except for that one time when I didn’t, which wasn’t a bad year but it cemented in my mind that my skill set is better suited for a small architectural firm. Here are my Top 5 Reasons to work in a Small Architectural Firm: 1. So right on Bob.
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