Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

/ Architectural Studio – 4 Questions Architectural Studio – 4 Questions Bob Borson — May 8, 2014 — 30 Comments A large percentage of the articles I write on this site are the result of receiving the same sorts of questions over and over again. Do you know the true purpose of an architectural portfolio? .

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 11, 2017

There were hundreds of architecture students graduating that spring and they were all competing for the same few positions available in the region. Every summer since my senior year in high school I worked on construction sites, learning the trade up close and studying the psychology of the architect/contractor relationship.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Today is a first – I am doing something that I told myself that I would never do … show you one of my projects from architecture school. The grade of the project site fell off very rapidly – part of the reason that this very real site had never been built upon. Why the change of heart?

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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

I use a 12″ wide x 50 yard long roll of trace paper , and an architectural scale (which is used to measure out dimensions as I sketch and I use the edge to tear the trace paper off the roll). On occasion, I will use a an Alvin 10″ Parallel Glider but normally only when I am sketching out dimensioned floor plan concepts.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 16, 2017

This preliminary round of judging has a bit more fluidity to it that allows the judges to put a premium on creativity and concept since we are not actually going to build all 26 of these designs. When creating new concepts and ideas these passions are used as bases and the fun of mixing them all together.

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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. There needs to be a better balance between design and application.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Amsterdam University of the Arts Institution: Amsterdam University of the Arts School: Amsterdam Academy of Architecture Course: Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture School statement: "The world around us is constantly changing and at a rapid pace.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

You will get to do just about everything sooner rather than later – attend client meetings, contribute to the design, prepare construction drawings, organize and process bidding and negotiating information, and go to job sites. That last one almost deserves its own category. We hire a number of interns each year.

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Community Architect

JUNE 9, 2022

Whitney Young, 1968) It is clear that a historically black university (HBCU) such as Morgan State University in Baltimore is trying hard to attract black architecture students and make students aware what role architects have played in segregation and, conversely what role they can play in creating more equity.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It is a state architecture board mandate as to what the requirements are for licensure, not NCARB. Look on their site, they say very plainly that, licensure requirements are the prevue of the licensing state body and not that of NCARB. I have a personal friend that failed site planning twice, and months later she got a letter.

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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. The school was very much intended as an element of civic pride. That is true even for concept software such as Sketch-Up.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

The School of Architecture at Taliesin has been a pillar both in the architecture world as well as Arizona and Wisconsin where Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna invited architecture students to live and work with them and immerse themselves in ‘organic architecture’. Archinect ). Steven Holl is 73.

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