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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APRIL 22, 2018

Four of the Five panelists ran through their applications before an audience mostly made up of current architecture students. I have also been taking part in a handful of architecture school jury panels lately.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Number 2 Your Projects from Architecture School are Silly September 4, 2014 Projects in architectural school tend to be somewhat outrageous – designing something to exist on the dark side of the moon isn’t all that unlikely. But what is the point of designing these incredibly odd and silly projects?

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

Simply based on my inbox, there is a new batch of bright and shiny new future architects about to graduate and they are on the hunt for their future … hopefully in an office like mine. Architects – Getting Your First Job Getting your first job in an architecture school is more about who you are than what you can do.

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MAY 7, 2014

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.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2015

When I look at this project now, it makes me think of a highly refined architecture school project. Obviously ( obviously to me that is) this was just the beginning of my career … just how many more projects of mine would make it into the newspaper? It must be a lot. It isn’t.

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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. So if you get a chance to design a house while you are in school, designing one that is practical and livable probably isn’t on your professor’s mind.

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