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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

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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Architizer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This informative and well-illustrated children’s book written by Joe Rhatigan and illustrated by Jamie Tejido, outlines what an architect does and introduces children to some of the world’s most famous landmark buildings alongside architectural terms and fun facts. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

(Pinterest/from his latest book). A book unexpected and unannounced arrived on my doorstep today: Robert A.M. Stern’s Between Memory and Invention , which I immediately mistook for an update of an earlier volume of his, Tradition and Invention in Architecture (2011). I was just a kid.

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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

The great thing about architecture school is that you get to hang out in studio. That’s where the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) comes in. The book has a full page of info for every architecture school in North America. When I was looking for schools, that book was my Bible.

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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

The great thing about architecture school is that you get to hang out in design studio. You’re surrounded by other cool graduate students who have unique backgrounds and so many ideas and experiences to share. That’s where the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) comes in. It was stressful.

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

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The second goal I had for myself was that I wanted to have a project that I had designed make it into an architectural history book – that’s a lofty goal. Nowhere in my future did I ever foresee spending my weekend reading financial books and pouring through tax returns and bank statements.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

Architects – Getting Your First Job Getting your first job in an architecture school is more about who you are than what you can do. According to Google, the search “resume+books” returned 81,500,000 hits so you newbies should start there. Maybe you shouldn’t be in architecture school … you don’t have what it takes.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 11, 2017

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.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Recently things are changing for architecture students in the United States. Though, today, many schools do not enforce these rules, the AIAS and current generations of architecture students are taking on the responsibility to educate their peers and are advocating against the unhealthy and unsafe practice of the legendary all-nighter.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

Also, where I spent a ridiculous amount of time building basswood models, most of the students I talk to these days send their digital files to a laser cutter and have the pieces of their model cut for them. Here are a few tips that can help make your experience in architecture studio that much better and more rewarding.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

This past December I was invited to speak at AIAS Forum 2013; the American Institute of Architecture Students national convention. While we waited for the airports to open, I had the opportunity to speak in length with many of the architecture students in attendance. I did not know any architects.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

You need to know and I strongly recommend that you pick up a copy of ‘ Architectural Graphics ‘ by Francis D.K. Ching’s book (along with my studio professors) taught me how to show profile lines – their use defines the look of my sketches as well as a generation of other architects.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 26, 2015

Around Architecture school, I hear most people dissing the themed Lego sets in favor of the creative freedom that come from the big box of various blocks. We love architecture and each other! The Book Nook Designer : Sam Sudy Portland, Oregon, USA Bio : I am a recent graduate from the University of Oregon, in Portland.

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Life of an Architect

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. I had it with me from one design studio to the next design studio up until my spring semester of my 4th year.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 18, 2013

To date we have seen contents from: Architect Architecture Student Drywall Contractor Interior Designer Photographer Graphic Designer Today we get a look into the bag of freelance designer/ consultant and electrician Lindy Weston (B.Envd., Ugly’s reference book. Alex Robert nice tools bag.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 5, 2018

We had to produce a lot of artists who basically buy gifts for all of the kids in the school and the art instructor basically said, “do what you want to do, do what you’re good at, figure out something” And so I realized very quickly that I could draw buildings from the books pretty well. Actually two questions.

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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. Like with school teaching us something new, we have to be ready to let design teach us as well.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 27, 2014

If you come out of school with your Master’s degree, I would think that would be sufficient for you to move forward/ advance your career. Best, Bob Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:48 AM Hey Mr. Borson, I’m sure you get a million e-mails from prospective architecture students, this is just a follow-up.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 18, 2014

Both of us attended graduate school at the University of Calgary, studying architecture together. We’re passionate about art and design, both studying fine art at universities in Canada before heading off to architecture school. Our hobbies are strictly architecture… and more architecture.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Not knowing anything other than I should try to get a job in an architectural office, I got whatever job I could. Read Architectural Interns to gain some unique insight into how an architecture student can rise to the top of a pile of resumes and get that coveted architectural intern position.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

When I first started architecture school as a freshman in college, I didn’t have the focus or maturity I needed to tackle the curriculum and I ended up having a serious identity crisis when I was 19 years old. ” So I passed the most difficult part of architecture school to be an architect. Alan Manning Great!

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

My name is Brett Bouwer and I am a third year architecture student at the university of colorado denver. realized ARE exams are very expensive, and I already spent 60k for my tuition + high costs of model materials, laptop, books printer , etc. I’ve spent well over $1500 on ARE prep classss, books and seminars.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The project I now remembered had made a lasting impression on me since it was my first assignment when my then prolific boss, Heinz Egenhofer hired me for my first job out of architecture school. There was only a thermal copier, so the spec books had to be brought to a print shop for copying and binding.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Reading the exhibition book reveals, that the critics who accused Koolhaas of an elitist perspective just didn’t read the global explorations of countrysides and its historical background. Is the 10 day construction of a hospital from modular units architecture? To hear the man himself thinking, click here ).

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