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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

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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? What about those poor souls? Happy surviving!

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Influences: Louis I. Kahn

SW Oregon Architect

The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA (photo by Codera23, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) An earlier blog entry of mine, “ Genealogy of Influence ,” promised a series of posts about the architects and theorists who influenced my architectural world view. Cret instilled in his students a reverence for Beaux-Arts principles.

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Architecture and The Art of Getting it Wrong | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Fast forward a few years – the college process is now complete and architectural schools are churning out extremely creative graduates, ready to take on the design world … except few graduates will actually get to work on “BIG IDEA” design projects. Which would explain why I’m at this blog.

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How to Layout a Pediment: 350 years of instructions

Jane Griswold Radocchia

Architects looked to Europe, especially the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, for inspiration, and perhaps a re-grounding in tradition. William Ware wrote The American Vignola in 1903 as a guide for his students at the Architectural School of Columbia University. Here's his Plate XVII with many pediments. 1797, Plate 10.

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Rob Krier wins his Driehaus

Architecture Here and There

the first hero of the classical revival, who founded and presided for many years over the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, and whose pathbreaking 1959 book on modern architecture taught many that classical architecture was not dead. The Reed award was named for the arch-classicist Henry Hope Reed Jr.,

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family emergency had me put this blog on hiatus. The book is a fitting result of a building, the Petite École , that functions as an architecture school for children.

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Architectural Education Will Change Because The Way Architects Work Will Change

EntreArchitect

I believe architectural education needs to train architects to recognize and harness our innate desire to create. Architecture school need to teach architects how to better listen, communicate, as well as design. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years. Its silly to say “Change.”