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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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

The Not so Sexy Side of Architecture Practicing architecture for 99.9% The practice of architecture is more than sketching on trace paper, parti diagrams, deciding what pens to draw with, groupies, and last-minute trips to Vegas. Maybe you shouldn’t be in architecture school … you don’t have what it takes.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

The work involved in setting up your design firm can be overwhelming and 99% of it was never taught to you in school. I once had a phone call with an architecture student asking for advice. There are infinite ways of “being an architect” and each firm runs its own way. Now start on the right foot.

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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. This could be almost anything within the field of architecture – it doesn’t necessarily stick to one thing.

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