Life of an Architect

JUNE 11, 2014

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. As a student, we do not see things such as this! If you can’t read drawings, hopefully my explanation will be good enough for you to understand. Thanks Bob.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Home / Bags / A Graphic Designer’s Bag A Graphic Designer’s Bag Bob Borson — September 28, 2013 — 7 Comments It’s time for another entry in the ongoing series I am running where we get to look at the working contents of various design and construction related professionals.

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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. about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect?

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APRIL 3, 2023

Welcome to Life of an Architect episode 122: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Here are the show notes from episode 122: Today we are going to start the process of discussing artificial intelligence and how it is intersecting with the practice of architecture, as well as the education process of architecture students.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Home / Holidays / What to Get an Architect for Christmas (2013) What to Get an Architect for Christmas (2013) Bob Borson — November 21, 2013 — 27 Comments It’s that time a year again – the highly anticipated “What to get an Architect for Christmas” post!

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Medieval architect (2013) – now this is my sort of Halloween costume. I actually found the sketch I made as part of my design process ( what did we do before Instagram ? So here are the pumpkins from Halloween 2013. I hated it but my daughter loved it, and isn’t that why we do this … for the kids?

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 1, 2013

If you sketch something with a dead-end corridor that’s too long, and the intern catches it and drafts a viable solution, instead, while they are doing everything else, I think they should be rewarded for that. Kymberly Having mentored many students, I can say that your advice and analogy are spot on.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 31, 2016

That’s what architecture students did, they built models. They are both terrific and both have a role to play; I receive enough emails relating to hand sketching ( old architects ) versus computer drawing ( young architects ) that I think I have my finger on the pulse on how that argument plays out.

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e-architect

JANUARY 6, 2022

In 2013 she was a FONCA fellow within the Young Creators Program. The invitation is open to architects and architecture students all over the world. The groups may incorporate professionals or students from other disciplines. We recommend having an architect or architecture student in the team. Contestants.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This is a guest post written by my friend Taylor Schaub, a 4th-year undergraduate architecture student at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Three years ago was my first encounter with the EntreArchitect Podcast & website during an evening planning for AIAS FORUM 2013. Physical health. 21 pushups per day. Mindfulness.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 2, 2014

Architectural Sketching or. And just so you know, we value your insights so much that we have referred high school/college students to your blog to get a taste of the “Life”, so carry on, Sir! Nix Too much negativity in the world! And I think I agree with John Keiser that people rather read than comment.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Their solutions are the result of a long series of consistent decisions and elaborations: diagrams and matrixes, sketches and artist’s impressions, ground plans and sections, construction models and working drawings. ‘We started our office because we want our vision on architecture translated into projects.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

While this represents progress, both gender and racial inequality and discrimination remains widespread in the architecture industry , from student bodies and educational institutions right through to professional organizations and the workplace as a whole. s Royal Institute of British Architects from 2011 to 2013. Anna Maria Bordas.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It also has a new translation of Ando’s essay “Le Corbusier and His Houses,” with photos of more than 100 models of Le Corbusier houses made by Ando’s students in Tokyo, 2001, with Ando's commentary included in English for the first time. The two-part exhibition had two curators: Eric Mumford did the Corbu component and Daniel J.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Helmreich, published by Princeton University Press, October 2013 ( Amazon / Bookshop ) A few years after Princeton University Press published William B. The students developed master plans and then designed schemes ranging from reimagined brownstones to terraced housing and other ways of weaving more units between the existing buildings.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 9, 2014

Jess Hopkin If it’s any consolation, I use sketch up all the time for trying to make my point at uni Tony Bob, Im new to your blog, and I have had some reading a lot of your posts and insight. Next time you get one, see if you can work in something about your student loans being completely paid off – LOL! How mean am I? :>)

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I could also argue that boiling water is particularly handy for architecture students so they can eat those oh-so-delicious $0.99 I personally feel that the really nice ones can be a little intimidating to sketch in – they seem a little precious to me. I am a pro (or at least now I can look like one).

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

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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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Home / Architects / Architectural Models Architectural Models Bob Borson — September 12, 2013 — 33 Comments One of the biggest changes I have seen since moving over to my new office is that the number of scale models has gone up considerably. about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect?

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 30, 2014

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! Can’t wait for it.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

While this would get more use by an architect that tends to sketch more, I still believe that it is useful to any architect. You can get smaller sizes of this exact lightbox, but the larger is best for an architect who likes to sketch, draw or design in a non-digital format. This is also a fairly portable item because it is so thin.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 23, 2014

If you are an architect, or a student of architecture, or possibly a person breathing air, you know and love the website ArchDaily. Architecture Sketch Blog is exactly what you think it is – a blog site dedicated to architectural sketches. The article can be found here [brace yourself - shudder ].

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Home / Graphics / Graphic Standards Graphic Standards Bob Borson — October 21, 2013 — 99 Comments How an architect draws is a reflection of many things – you can frequently tell the priorities of a firm just by looking at the quality of their drawings. I teach my students the same values.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2022

Following the death of Richard Rogers last month, we're republishing a series of exclusive interviews we filmed with the British architect in 2013. The idea that you suddenly wake up and do a sketch is not true – the only time when I do that, I usually wake up with a hangover the next morning, because it never works.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If I ever saw something that an architecture student needed, this is it. As a bonus, even non-architects would like a book like this because it explains the vocabulary that architects use on a daily basis with wonderful sketches that clearly show the subject. B O O K S ! ! ! They are all that good.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MAY 30, 2022

Like The Battle for Home , Building for Hope 's text is accompanied by the architect's own sketches, this time depicting places well beyond her native Syria. The name "Dragon Rock" refers to the house and studio he developed with architect David Leavitt (1918–2013), as well as the site's quarry landscape.

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