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How to Layout a Pediment: 350 years of instructions

Jane Griswold Radocchia

The diagram shows the actual twine held tight at Points A and B. Palladio doesn't describe this, but the roofs in his The Four Books of Architecture (1570) use the same pitch. He uses the geometry in the pediment of a Menagery, in his book, On Architecture *. I began my diagram here on the lower edge of the pediment's frame.

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Do I Have to Be an Artist to Be an Architect?

The Student Architect

So many people feel the same as you do, and many of them let those thoughts get in the way of pursuing their dream to study architecture. Let's make one thing clear—architecture school isn't art school. Does it help to have art skills and to be able to translate your thoughts and ideas clearly on paper?

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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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Do you really want to be an architect?

Life of an Architect

All that notwithstanding, this is an important article for architecture students and their parents to read. It talks about the process – maybe even the realization – of what it takes to get through architecture school. Architects communicate through drawing – we aren’t making art.

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Architecture and Math

Life of an Architect

The higher, more complex areas of math such as calculus hinder many students, but it is the logic pattern of math such as this that is a critical tool in the mind of an architect. Evan Troxel, Architect The architecture school I went to required Trigonometry to get my degree. That’s what reference materials are for.

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Amber Book ARE 5.0 Review – Video Tour

Young Architect

What differentiates Amber Book from all other architect exam prep providers is how they have mastered the art of using graphics and animations to help you study for the ARE. . Michael teaches design studio, environmental building systems, materials & methods of construction, and architectural acoustics. I always tell people.

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Rereading the Nineties

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

In my decade working as an architect in Chicago, from 1997, after graduating from architecture school, to 2006, when I left for grad school in New York City, I made many, many — many — trips to Prairie Avenue Bookshop, spending too much money there but always feeling when I walked out the door that I could have easily spent much, much more.