A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Balsa was so derided when I was in architecture school in the 1990s that we were required to build presentation models from bass wood, a much harder and harder-to-cut wood, something the lasting scars on my fingers can attest to.) a+u 2014:03: Supermodels , photographed by Hisao Suzuki, published by a+u, 2014.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Profiler I started toward an architecture degree in nineteeneightysomething at USC… I took a hiatus for the Gulf War… When I went back to architecture school in the late nineties… I showed up at a preliminary presentation with an armful of “trace” and realized how much things changed in only five years.

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APRIL 3, 2022

After I left the Journal in 2014, I wrote a book called Lost Providence that included Elliott’s illustration on page 108. ’ ” It is said that design and architectural schools’ first job is to purge students of their instinct for beauty. This has been almost uniformly ignored.)

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

January 26th, 2014 “Typical Sunday afternoon – except this design sketch is for me” (photo by @mborson ) #architecture #sketch #design #architect. about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? on my project notes” #sketch. Send to Email Address. Your Email Address.

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MAY 18, 2014

Home / Competition / The Finalists – LoaA 2014 Playhouse Design Competition The Finalists – LoaA 2014 Playhouse Design Competition Bob Borson — May 19, 2014 — 27 Comments The 3rd Annual Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition had an amazing turnout this year. heard around the.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 6, 2022

She was made FRIBA in 2005 and Professor at Westminster in 2014. She has published more than 700 publications on architecture including professional, national and international journalism and popular and academic books, with key titles including This Is Not Architecture and The Wessex Project. RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

Architectural Studio – 4 Questions Architectural Studio – 4 Questions Bob Borson — May 8, 2014 — 30 Comments A large percentage of the articles I write on this site are the result of receiving the same sorts of questions over and over again. Home / Do you want to be an Architect?

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

It was a big inspiration to me during architecture school. link] This has some really rich student work – drawings and models. link] Bob Borson I have seen it before – didn’t remember the name of it since I haven’t seen it since my early days in college. Send to Email Address. Your Email Address.

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OCTOBER 19, 2013

I found the jambox two years later in one of the other architecture school buildings, sitting there on a table as if that’s where I had left it the two years prior… … with no mix tape. Pages Comment Policy Privacy Policy about me Let’s Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect?

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JUNE 22, 2014

Home / Blog / #ArchiSketch #ArchiSketch Bob Borson — June 23, 2014 — 22 Comments As an architect, I tend to communicate through sketching – which is starting to make me a bit of a relic. Sharp Bob, As a recent graduate of architecture school – I’m proud to call myself an avid sketch artist.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 16, 2014

Competitions are a integral part of the architecture experience. Since architecture school and throughout our careers, design competitions provide a vehicle for architects to promote our talents and showcase our skills. There is no cost to enter the competition.

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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. As Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, says in his book, ARCHITECT?

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Cheers, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Bags , Materials and Products Materials , Products Surviving Architecture School Christmas Cards from Famous. Alex Robert nice tools bag. Pingback: Building Moxie's 2013 Parade of ToolBelts Jwkathol Great contribution to the series! Awesome bag as well.

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Architecture Here and There

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Here is a post written in May of 2014. The modernist Richard Rogers plan for was outvoted in a survey by Quinlan Terry’s traditional proposal by 67 percent to 33 percent, but what was eventually build is an unsatisfactory compromise. The Gehry Eisenhower memorial opened in 2020 largely as originally designed.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 18, 2015

You can’t be completely incompetent either, but if you can through school, it’s all downhill … at least until you have to the architectural licensing exam, but that’s a different post for a different day. Evan Troxel, Architect The architecture school I went to required Trigonometry to get my degree.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Cheers, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Life in General , Observations , Travel a day in the life , about bob , Architecture School , bob borson , Travel , traveling Graphic Standards heard around the. Learning is certainly a great by-product of the experience, but so is growing up. i think i can draw well.

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APRIL 6, 2014

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. Send to Email Address.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Fast forward a few years – the college process is now complete and architectural schools are churning out extremely creative graduates, ready to take on the design world … except few graduates will actually get to work on “BIG IDEA” design projects. Send to Email Address. Your Email Address.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Today, Montréal is a cultural medley of architectural works. Home to McGill University, one of the most prestigious architecture schools in the country, the city constantly produces new pieces of architecture that do not fit under any specific trend or movement but rather steadily push the boundaries of contemporary architecture.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Architectural schools are often staffed with educators who are ill at ease actually practicing in the “real world”. By extension, it leads we architects to feel we have a better path, a path that we know and you should all be following; taken to an extreme it can make us elitist and at its worst cynical.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 30, 2014

Home / Construction / Building with Structural Insulated Panels … or SIPs Building with Structural Insulated Panels … or SIPs Bob Borson — March 31, 2014 — 75 Comments We are building the CHouse Modern using Structurally Insulated Panels, or SIPs as they are commonly referenced. Send to Email Address.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 26, 2018

Reignwolf – Are You Satisfied Canadian rocker Jordan Wolf has yet to release a full-length album (as far as I can tell) but I have stumbled across a handful of his songs dating back to 2014. If you like rock, then this is a song you should appreciate.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Quinton founded his architecture office in 2003 and also serves as the director of the National Architecture School of Versailles. The architect preferenced local materials, such as the soft green ogee floor tiles in the lobby, which come from artisans in Normandy.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 4, 2014

Home / Architects / Why Architects should Blog Why Architects should Blog Bob Borson — May 5, 2014 — 40 Comments I was asked to be the Master of Ceremonies for the AIA Austin Design Awards ceremony, an event that took place last Thursday evening (May 1st). Architectural Studio - 4. Send to Email Address. Your Email Address.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 27, 2014

Home / Memories from Studio / Memories from Studio People who didn’t attend architectural school don’t understand juries. Always look for the positive architectrunnerguy Amazingly during my whole 5 years of architectural school (Va. Building with Structural. oh well, it was drafted well. Send to Email Address.

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Architizer

APRIL 7, 2022

Nowadays, the city remains home to preeminent architectural schools such as UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture. The practice has demonstrated a consistent approach to resolving client ambitions and site complexities into a tactile architecture of volume, material and light.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

When you are in the weeds of construction documents, RFI’s, AFP’s, and need a mind refresher, pick up Thinking Architecture. Tadao Ando Conversations With Students by Tadao Ando – Ando has always been one of my favorite architects since I “discovered” him at my undergrad architecture school library.

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ArchiDiaries

MAY 24, 2022

The Czech Architecture Foundation supervisory board member from 2002 to 2009. Faculty of Architecture design studio teacher from 2008 to 2014. Its directors, Jan Aulík and Jakub Fišer are active in the broader cultural and professional community, with design studio teaching experience from architectural schools.

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e-architect

MARCH 18, 2023

The members of the group are recent graduates from theater, art and architecture schools. 5 May 2014 Summer House in Zapallar Architect: Enrique Browne photographs : Guy Wenborne, Gonzalo Romero and Enrique Browne Summer House in Zapallar The site of this holiday house is long and very inclined.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 5, 2022

"Star Stories" by Sotirios Kotoulas Beforehand, the best encapsulation of Diane Lewis's pedagogy at Cooper Union was Open City: Existential Urbanity , the large-format book published in 2015 that collected more than a dozen years of projects from the fourth-year "Architecture of the City" studios she taught at the famed architecture school.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Having grown up in suburban Chicago and been in architecture school in Kansas at the time, I visited the room on trips back home, seeing it fairly regularly after moving back to Chicago in 1997. FOR FURTHER READING: Shadow and Light: Tadao Ando at the Clark by Richard Pare (Clark Art Institute, 2014) Tadao Ando Modern Art Museum of Ft.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 27, 2014

Sincerely, Jordan Guard Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:15 PM Hey Mr. Borson, This is the welder from NC who has dropped you a line from time to time about segueing into an architecture career. 1) What is the number one thing you think I can do prior to entering architectural school that would benefit me in school and in a career?)

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I want to go to architecture school but I don’t really enjoy making models–the process is quite frustrating for me… should all aspiring architects be passionate about model making? We had college architectural interns make this model – they are in their model-making prime! link] Bob Borson no.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Bob Borson — February 10, 2014 — 49 Comments The last several years have been hard on the architectural profession. ” So I passed the most difficult part of architecture school to be an architect. about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? Your Email Address.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It was my first year in architecture school at UH, and it was in the Architecture History class from Prof. For an out of the way corner of an out of the way state, NW Arkansas packs quite an architectural punch. about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? Send to Email Address.

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APRIL 13, 2014

Home / Life in General / Motivation – and why it’s important Motivation – and why it’s important Bob Borson — April 14, 2014 — 27 Comments It’s Sunday morning, it’s raining outside, I’m really tired, and the consensus around the house is to lay about, read books and watch television.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Brandon Tyler Carr I’m still in Architecture School, so this post will pretty much broaden my arena for studio. 4) Fenix TX – Self Title - –Who doesn’t love some early 2000′s pop punk to boost a good mood? 5) Incubus – Morning View – –Just a straight forward amazing album.

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