Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Home / Career / Surviving Architecture School Surviving Architecture School Bob Borson — December 16, 2013 — 49 Comments Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific. What happens when you are actually still in school? What’s the Right sized firm for you?

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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.

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Architects Tales

APRIL 1, 2019

For aspiring architects, the rule is first encountered as students when they enter architectural school and are told that one half of the students in their class will drop out either in the first year or no later than before graduation. Finally, firm formation may be dropping as well. As Roger K.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

Stern’s Between Memory and Invention , which I immediately mistook for an update of an earlier volume of his, Tradition and Invention in Architecture (2011). The new book, just out, is, however, the biography of architecture’s own Zelig – he has always been around and pops up everywhere. I was just a kid.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

They look like 1/4″ At my firm we typically start at 1/16″ and work up to 1/8″, usually do not go above unless its working out a detail or a small detailed area. Travel sketchers and architecture students would all enjoy better success if they knew, say how to pull the pencil to keep an even lineweight.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The education of an architect intentionally and systematically breaks down the creative process “baggage” and untrained habits of their students, and then starts the process of rebuilding that process in a non-stigmatized environment. Like with school teaching us something new, we have to be ready to let design teach us as well.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 22, 2018

If you don’t know how, learn how by downloading our free course: Profit for Small Firm Architects today at EntreArchitect.com/FreeCourse. I loved architectural school, but I also know there’s times where you hate it. I then took a job with the first firm that was willing to apply for a work visa for me.

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