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Architectural Sketching [or How to Sketch like Bob] | Life of an Architect

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Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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Four Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

This fact goes against the occasional sirens over the irrelevance and anachronistic nature of monographs in our digital age, with free access ( for now ) to voluminous amounts of information on buildings and architects readily available online. Louis (2003), and the Clyfford Still Museum (2011). Well, frankly, no.

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

The fact I included a case study chapter in Buildings in Print , as mentioned above, points to my appreciation of this sub-genre of architecture books but also to the role they have played in teaching architecture students, spreading knowledge around important works, and promoting architects and architecture within and beyond the profession.

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because that's what architects do for fun | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

It is extremely complicated and we are using Rhino and Grasshopper (fancy modeling software) to help generate and document the design – I’ll show it on the site here when I have a bit more information to present. The stuff the architecture students are learning in college is whacky. Cool, but whacky.

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Bob Stern and Bill Brussat

Architecture Here and There

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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The Great Kitchen Adventure Starts Now | Life of an Architect

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Robbie Darling Bob I am an architecture student, and recently I got to design a small dwelling, which included its own small kitchen. My wife is really anxious for me to move from the discussing and sketching phase into the construction document phase. I’m really interested to see how you approach this!

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Should I be an Architect? | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I think through drawing and sketching, for others they might turn towards computer software … I don’t really care. I’m a 20 year old architecture student from India and I do believe I’m going through an identity crisis, right in the midst of my submissions too! I know I believe it. Alan Manning Great!

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