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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

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Home / Career / Surviving Architecture School Surviving Architecture School Bob Borson — December 16, 2013 — 49 Comments Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific. What happens when you are actually still in school? The person with the most skills typically wins.

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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

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While 2014 isn’t technically over yet, it isn’t going to stop me [ cause I do what I want] from looking back at all the articles I wrote over the year to see which ones represented the very best that 2014 and I had to offer. February 10, 2014 The last several years have been hard on the architectural profession.

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Ingrid Schroder named director of the Architectural Association

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Read: "The AA has reinvented itself before and is capable of doing so again" Her appointment as director is the result of a vote by students, faculty and council members, held after each candidate presented to the school in April. Five candidates competed for role.

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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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2022 RIBA Annie Spink Award

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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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Huger Elliott on Providence

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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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Architectural Delineation Competition - KRob 2013 | Life of an.

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Organized by AIA Dallas since 1974, KRob has awarded prizes to works that best represent the artistic qualities of architecturally inspired drawings created digitally or by hand. This competition is a big deal and there are typically hundreds of entries from all over the world from both professionals, students and all points in between.