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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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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The Architect's Questionnaire: Gabe Fonseca

Portland Architecture

Recently one of the nation's oldest architecture firms opened an office in Portland. In fact, SmithGroup is the longest continually-operating architecture and engineering firm in the United States that's not a wholly-owned subsidiary. I spent my first summer out of graduate school, building with the students.

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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

Architecture school is often about examining information and using that information to creatively find solutions to problems. . Architecture school teaches you to think differently, rewires your brain and most architecture students graduate being a very different person from when they started. The Profession. 5-7 years).

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Book Briefs #41: Six Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

This new monograph on Archi-Tectonics, the New York firm of Winka Dubbeldam , has six of them: positioned in pairs close to the binding, the holes give the impression of a notebook or a binder full of documents rather than a polished monograph.

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The Culture of Architecture Needs an Overhaul, Part II: Historical Background, Today’s Context and Future Steps

Architizer

Cultural change became a focus of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) in the late 1990s. The task force was created in response to unhealthy culture within architecture schools and a particular event where a student lost their life in a vehicular accident after leaving the studio with little sleep.

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WHEN STARS ALIGN

Landscape Architecture Magazine

For the past five years, students and faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) School of Landscape Architecture have been building a proposal for a project called the Tennessee RiverLine, a 652-mile trail from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Paducah, Kentucky, by way of Alabama and Mississippi. It should just be this trail.”.

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My 12 Rules for Landing Your First Job in Architecture

EntreArchitect

Throughout the winter before graduating, I wrote over 100 cover letters and mailed them with my standard one-page resume to every architecture firm in the New York metropolitan area. There were hundreds of architecture students graduating that spring and they were all competing for the same few positions available in the region.