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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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

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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Deezen

AUGUST 9, 2022

School statement: "California Baptist University (CBU) architecture students design for the public good. The architecture programme at CBU prepares students to serve as design professionals rooted in the Christian faith tradition. This project sought to draw cues from the natural ecology of the surrounding site.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2022

Our reputation is reflected by our continued presence in the Domus listing of the top 50 Architecture Schools in Europe and our students and staff continue to win prestigious industry awards, including regular successes in the RIBA President's Medals.". The site is located within the old Cinque Port of Rye, East Sussex.

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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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Architizer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. So, for the culinarily committed, precision-passionate architect, this might well be the perfect present. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School. Architizer Journal is reader-supported. Learn more. By Matthew Frederick. Calm Subscription.

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e-architect

JULY 19, 2023

Now in its 17th Year, the 3DReid Student Prize is the largest independent Prize for Part II architecture students. All Schools of Architecture in the UK are invited to nominate students. Architecture cannot cure Alzheimer’s. All Schools of Architecture in the UK are invited to nominate students.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 15, 2016

I’m not sure that it’s that big a deal nowadays – and it would seem that most graduating architecture students don’t really know how to sketch based on the portfolio’s I’ve seen. It must be Presentation Skills … right? What About Sketching? Can’t draw?

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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

MAY 7, 2017

If you are an architectural student – or a young architecture school graduate – Architectural Portfolios are extremely important. Resumes are important, they can help you get an interview, but few people coming out of architecture school will ever get hired based on their zippy resume.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In a few short years, I evolved from being a junior architecture staff working for everyone else to a licensed architect with interns and junior staff suddenly reporting to me. In his world, I was just a cheap architecture student day laborer. Allow interns to use the plotter and copier for school projects.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In a few short years, I evolved from being a junior architecture staff working for everyone else to a licensed architect with interns and junior staff suddenly reporting to me. In his world, I was just a cheap architecture student day laborer. Allow interns to use the plotter and copier for school projects.

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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. Be unique in your approach and presentation.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This includes anyone not registered to practice architecture in a U.S. or Canadian jurisdiction, graduates from NAAB-accredited programs, architecture students who acquire acceptable experience prior to graduation, and other qualified individuals identified by a registration board.”

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

Just some food for thought … So let’s get to it – here are 5 Tips and Techniques that should improve your architectural sketches [ all the images Ive used in this post were collected off the Life of an Architect site and Instagram feed from the last 4 years. It shows that Ive been consistent in using these techniques.]

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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. saying this, I don’t regret the years I spent at the university.

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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. How do you present your work before an interview and in an interview? Drawing sets? Work samples?

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Community Architect

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’. Design presentation see here.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I suppose that this seems fortuitous to some people but there were times when this presented serious complications. 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.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In 2012, the Texas Society of Architects agreed to put together a task force to examine the Architectural Licensing Exam (ARE) and the Intern Development Program (IDP) process and propose changes for a simpler, more efficient system. I have read the report myself several times over and the data presented in it is both remarkable and alarming.

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