A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 28, 2022

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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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

After responding to a hopeful architect on Dwell.com I decided to flesh out my answer and include more books. Naturally there is some overlap and some of these books could fit in multiple headings, this is architecture after all. Covey – This is a universally loved book by people in every field.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Those three US-centric books were split between two historical surveys and one case study. Their scale is too small; the contrast between streets and blocks is too low; it's not clear how the four maps join up; the lists of buildings keyed to the maps do not extend to the book's pages. Like other parts of Encounters , Dipl.–Ing.

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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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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

The great thing about architecture school is that you get to hang out in studio. They have two resources that I cannot encourage you enough to utilize: their book titled Guide to Architecture Schools (2009) , The online version , and their website, Study Architecture. It was stressful. They’re SUPER helpful.

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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. When I was looking for schools, that book was my Bible. That feeling didn’t last long, though.

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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. ” The office is pictured above.

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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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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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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

These days, many students work from home or their apartments since the work is done digitally. 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.

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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

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

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. My 12 Rules for Landing Your First Job in Architecture.

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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 26, 2015

I’m Caitlin and I’m a fourth year student at Drexel University. I’m currently enrolled in the 2 + 4 Bachelor of Architecture Program and working full-time at an architecture firm. We love architecture and each other! I’m also on the Drexel Football Team– but it’s an improv comedy group!

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 5, 2018

She dedicated countless hours to mentoring black underprivileged high school students all year round in the NAACP ACT-SO program. INOMA organizes a week long camp devoted to introducing minority junior high students to the AEC construction or architecture construction, engineering industry. So, I stuck with it.

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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

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. The schooling that I received addressed the Art of Architecture, as well has history, etc.

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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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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 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. I’m going to share this with my ACE Mentor Program Students! Something a master machine can’t make.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the costs of student loans, and general costs of living, and then compare them to the income of a young architect it is ridiculous! My name is Brett Bouwer and I am a third year architecture student at the university of colorado denver. That same school now charges $960 per credit hour. First is the cost of the education.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Front of the school facing Bismarck Strasse (School website) The architectural project with all these features came to my mind when I was wondering which of the projects I have under my belt as an architect could still resonate with the students that I, at times, try to teach one thing or another. Let me explain why.

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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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