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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

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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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Architectural Tricks of the Trade | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Underdog Architecture Student What about the way to tear a straight piece off of a roll of trace? (I It’s got lots of ergonomic/spatial data illustrated with diagrams (eg how much space do you need to open a kitchen cabinet when kneeling). This should fit in a 9 x 14.5 envelope or similar legal-size file drawer.

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Arquine Competition MEXTÓPOLI 2022 Pavilion

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She has also been a professor at GSAPP, Columbia University, ETSAM-UPM and Brussels School of Architecture UCL-LOCI, among other universities. Architect by the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM with a Diploma of Merit and Master in Architecture in Urban Design in 2012 by the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University.

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Should I be an Architect? | Life of an Architect

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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 would suggest a third question, to complete the Venn diagram: What does the world need? Something a master machine can’t make. Alan Manning Great! Thanks a lot!

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Four Monographs

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No wonder his website sells prints of his architectural imagery — and no wonder this monograph is saturated with the same, sure to woo architects and architecture students too young to remember the nineties. His projects, as rendered in sketches, drawings, models, perspectives, and collages, are just too beautiful.

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What to Get an Architect for Christmas [2017]

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If I ever saw something that an architecture student needed, this is it. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Landscape and Architecture $45 by Michael Sheridan (Author) and‎ Michael Holm (Editor) Fun Fact: The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is located just outside Copenhagen, Denmark and NOT in Louisiana. B O O K S ! ! !