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Photo's #frommydesk | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

” October 26th, 2012 “This is what my office did for lunch” #beer and napkin #sketches. March 28th, 2013 “Commercial Pre-Construction meeting this morning and I brought a pink cup” #really. August 10th, 2013 “concept assembly sketch for a modern house I will feature on LoaA” #vegetativeroof.

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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Career / Surviving Architecture School Surviving Architecture School Bob Borson — December 16, 2013 — 49 Comments Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific. If your school doesn’t put any sort of emphasis on sketching, burn an elective (or two) and take a class over in the arts building.

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Pier and Beam Foundations - KHouse Progress | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Since a number of people don’t seem to understand this concept, I thought I would whip together some sketches to help illustrate my point. Love the sketches too. link] Bob Borson I did the sketches on top of trace paper (like 90% of all my sketches) but I scanned these in and added some color in photoshop.

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KHouse Modern Progress Update | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

[and by "change your life" I mean, "distract you for 10 or 15 minutes" at most] Today’s post is really going to be a comparison of how things have changed from early August of 2013 to our most recent construction issue towards the end of January 2014. I still think sketch up is way easier, but just for 3d views.

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