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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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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Places in Time II

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Those three US-centric books were split between two historical surveys and one case study. I reviewed Concrete Map Chicago back in 2018 and since then have noticed them putting out maps of modern architecture , brutalist architecture , public transit — even trees. 1906, when Frank Lloyd Wright completed Unity Temple.

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The Women Who Changed Architecture

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Discover contemporary leaders, like MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, spearheading sustainable design initiatives, reimagining cities as equitable spaces, and directing architecture schools. An essential read for architecture students, architects, and anyone interested in how buildings are created and the history behind them.

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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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Manchester School of Architecture spotlights nine architecture and humanities student projects

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Here BA3 students are taught by staff within vertical studios alongside postgraduate architecture and landscape architecture students. This year, we proudly launched our Foundation in Architecture course, widening access into the profession. "We

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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. ” The office is pictured above.

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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.