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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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.

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Four Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

It's not uncommon today to find architecture firms, no doubt driven by savvy marketing departments and PR firms, merging their brands across platforms, such that their monographs resemble their websites. Such size often means, at least in terms of architectural monographs, a business-like approach over an artistic one.

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Book Briefs #41: Six Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

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. Whatever its name, the firm makes some of the best modern houses in the American West.

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Architectural Job Starter Kit | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

So I thought I would put together an architectural job “starter kit” of all the things you should be paying attention to if you’re planning on getting a job at an architectural office. My experience demands that I champion the advantages of working in a small firm, it’s what I know and love.

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Rule of Halves

Architects Tales

And only one half of those who stay will form their own firms or become principals in a larger firm. 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. According to the U.S.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Without further ado, explore this remarkable array of women, and to be considered for coverage in this upcoming year, make sure your firm enters its work in the A+Awards before March 4th, 2022. She has formally wed her expertise in the two disciplines by founding Bordas+Peiro Architect and Engineering Firm. Raha Ashrafi . Stella Betts.

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Architectural Tricks of the Trade | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

″ – drawing title on one side and the firm’s logo on the other side. 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.