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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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Architizer Holiday Gift Guide 2022

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Niche is produced from black melamine and has a smooth, matte finish that makes the pieces pleasing to the touch and easy on the eye. The creative and funny book is a great gift to help try to explain to younger kids why you are wailing at a computer screen full of colored lines again. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School.

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Bob Stern and Bill Brussat

Architecture Here and There

(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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Rule of Halves

Architects Tales

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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5 Steps to Unleash the Significant Power of Sleep

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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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Dear Future Architects – You need to Hear This

Life of an Architect

There is an ebb and flow to design, a push here requires a pull there – there is a never-ending series of compromises that get made to achieve a finished product. Architects – Getting Your First Job Getting your first job in an architecture school is more about who you are than what you can do. Why Should You Read This?

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Architectural Studio - 4 Questions | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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.