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? What’s the Right sized firm for you?

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 23, 2022

This past Thursday evening, representatives from three AIA Oregon firms presented projects currently in design for scrutiny by University of Oregon architecture students in the 2022 Reverse Crit. I may have graduated from architecture school decades ago, but I will always remain a student of architecture.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2022

Gyo Obata, co-founder of the St Louis-based architecture firm HOK , has passed away at the age of 99. The firm would go on to complete projects all over the United States, Europe and Asia. The news of Obata's death on 8 March 2022 was announced by HOK, which shared a retrospective of his life and works on its website.

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Deezen

JUNE 29, 2022

Architecture firms should adopt more collaborative leadership styles to address labour grievances in the industry, says co-CEO of the world's biggest architecture studio Andy Cohen, in this exclusive interview. "I Above: Andy Cohen is co-CEO of Gensler. Top: He is based at Gensler's office in downtown LA.

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Bustler

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The event is the result of a Town Hall in January this year where more than two dozen members of signatory firms came together to discuss how we can use Adaptive Futures to address our mission of addressing our global climate emergency. Louis by El Dorado and Good Development Group.

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Young Architect

DECEMBER 1, 2021

She’s always loved art and math, and a 3rd-grade teacher suggested to her that architecture would be a good fit for her. In high school, she took drafting classes and joined a group for engineering and architecture. Starting after her junior year in high school, she also worked for an architecture firm.

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Architizer

APRIL 19, 2023

Evelyn Lee is the Head of Workplace Strategy and Innovation at Slack Technologies, founder of Practice of Architecture , and co-host of the podcast, Practice Disrupted. She takes inspiration from her experience in tech and outside of the profession to reimagine practice operations for firms.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 12, 2022

Data from the 2020 annual report of the NAAB revealed that 50% of the students enrolled in NAAB-accredited architecture programs were female. 1 Yet, the percentage of women who obtained their architect license, achieve upper management positions, become partners and own architectural firms have not increased as men’s percentages have.

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ArchiDiaries

MAY 7, 2022

Apart from Practice, Senthil is an academician, researcher, and Guest lectures/who conducts workshops at various architecture schools in India and Dubai. An ardent on-site, hands-on Architect with a passion for martial arts. Practice Ideology.

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Deezen

JULY 26, 2022

"We will conduct a search for dean Harriss' successor this coming academic year, and I will soon begin work on identifying a search firm to help us in this effort.". Read: "We have a way to go to reach gender parity, but it's not without hope" Pratt Institute's School of Architecture is one of six schools at the university.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

With a twisted sense of pride, too many architects today accept the small firm stereotype of “starving artist”. Seeds planted in architecture school bloom into a full-on virus as professionals launch their own firms and find their way to small business. Architecture is a profession like law and medicine.

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Bustler

JANUARY 13, 2022

Since founding his firm in 1997, Phifer has completed an expansion of the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland; an expansion of the Corning. Ongoing projects include the TR Warszawa Theatre and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Cine Colombia headquarters in Bogotá, the Indiana. In 2013, Phifer received the Arts and Letters Award in.

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Architizer

JUNE 9, 2023

The end of the Pinochet regime was an important moment for architecture in Chile, leading to a boom in architecture schools and a broader curriculum. With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs.

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Architecture Chat

JANUARY 9, 2021

Five years of a learning experience The mind of an architecture student is indeed a cauldron filled with fretting emotions, art, thought-provoking ideas, stories, and myriad experiences. Five years spent in an architecture school are nothing less than a roller-coaster that persuades you to find hidden values and varying purposes.

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Architizer

AUGUST 19, 2022

Browse the Architizer Jobs Board and apply for architecture and design positions at some of the world's best firms. Architecture school is difficult. However, its influence on subsequent architecture education was profound. Click here to sign up for our Jobs Newsletter. . In one sense, this is as it should be.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Also included is a performing arts centre designed to reinvigorate both the creative arts and wider community in greater Sydney and a safe space dedicated to people in the queer community. School: School of Built Environment. Courses: Architecture and Interior Architecture. University of New South Wales.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Shaped like one-half of an hourglass, Dealey Plaza features several small art deco colonnades and fountains but is dominated by three wide roadways, which converge at the west end of the plaza before diving under a raised railroad bridge. Visitors regularly dart into traffic on Elm Street to pay their respects or take photos.

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Young Architect

MAY 14, 2022

Studying design from at one of the many great architecture programs is, in my (admittedly, biased) opinion, one of the greatest educations a person could get as well as an amazing industry to work in. Architecture School. Unlike school, time and money sometimes dictate the design of the project. The Profession.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

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. Pingback: Architecture and The Art of Getting it Wrong |.

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Architects Tales

APRIL 1, 2019

For aspiring architects, the rule is first encountered as students when they enter architectural school and are told that one half of the students in their class will drop out either in the first year or no later than before graduation. And only one half of those who stay will form their own firms or become principals in a larger firm.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 21, 2023

The book is a fitting result of a building, the Petite École , that functions as an architecture school for children. M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022 by Thom Mayne and Morphosis, published by Rizzoli.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 9, 2021

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. Anyone will be able to directly create buildings through software, no architect need apply. Its silly to say “Change.”

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SW Oregon Architect

JULY 25, 2021

The title I brought with me is Architecture Depends , by Jeremy Till , an architect and Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of the Arts in London. I say timely because the book serves to remind us of the messy context within which we create architecture today. Thus far, I’ve only read the first two of eleven chapters.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This large-scale new building is part of the sequenced critical build programme at the school. This programme will ensure that staff and pupils enjoy outstanding facilities across all subject areas, in the creative and performing arts and for sports. image courtesy of architecture office. London Architecture News.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 8, 2015

With a twisted sense of pride, too many architects today accept the small firm stereotype of “starving artist”. Seeds planted in architecture school bloom into a full-on virus as professionals launch their own firms and find their way to small business. Architecture is a profession like law and medicine.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

All my Professors, fellow students, former employers and coworkers, family members, librarians, neighbors, long-time family friends, and even the friends I made who worked at the art supply store. During college I worked for a firm for only 6 months, before I threw up my hands and quit. Check him out at YoungArchitect.com.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 19, 2014

A while back I wrote a post titled “ Architectural Interns ” where I stated: Other than slowing things down, interns aren’t very useful in small firms because we run fast and lean. You might recognize Michael as the namesake principal of the firm where Bob and I now work. Arch at UT Austin.

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Stephen B Chambers Architects

AUGUST 16, 2016

Texas Architect Steve Chambers Collaborates with Artist Stephen Lapthisophon on Conceptual Art Piece for DB12 Based on Chambers’ Vintage Tool Collection I am a residential architect and have had my own firm for 36 years. I learned to design in architecture school using freehand sketching and manual drafting.

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A Better Built Environment

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Leave a comment Weekly Reading The Architectural Drawing Prize My love for architecture and the art of design is strong, even as my frustrations with the profession grow. It is seeing things like this that rekindle my passion for architecture. It was rarely heard in architectural school or during design studio critiques.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 19, 2014

It would be nice to include a picture of your actual architecture school building – something that identifies it as whatever school it happens to be. I am currently sitting in seat 13D flying back from presenting and acting as Master of Ceremonies for the AIA Potomac Valley Design Celebration.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 23, 2014

I didn’t know that being an intern at this firm meant that I would be collaborating and contributing to the firm’s work. We not only have the opportunity to work on something that is alien to a small firm like MMA, we also find ourselves collaborating with sculptors, interior designers, and contractors across the globe.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

In architecture school, we each had a professor who told us that architecture should be practiced for the art and art alone. “If If you want to make money”, they said, “quit now, take a walk across campus and enroll at the business school.”. I am Mark R. LePage and I am an Entrepreneur Architect.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

I just walked into the building’s lobby during my summer vacation and asked the elevator operator to take me to [Zeckendorf’s firm] Webb & Knapp – totally different times [circa 1954], no security. ” Bob Stern’s architectural tastes might also be said to be indeterminate. where I was primarily raised.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

EPAC Experimental Puppetry Arts Centre Bulgaria Design Competition, Stara Zagora architecture contest news EPAC Experimental Puppetry Arts Centre Bulgaria Competition News post updated 5 September 2023 We received a critical document about this competition, and felt on balance it would be good to share with our readers.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 17, 2022

Overall, what struck me about the list was the way the majority of the titles appeared to skirt architecture and design, with the monograph on Lewerentz and Douglas Spencer's Critique of Architecture firmly within the bounds of architecture but the other three books more on the field's margins.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

All my Professors, fellow students, former employers and coworkers, family members, librarians, neighbors, long-time family friends, and even the friends I made who worked at the art supply store. During college I worked for a firm for only 6 months, before I threw up my hands and quit.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 22, 2018

If you don’t know how, learn how by downloading our free course: Profit for Small Firm Architects today at EntreArchitect.com/FreeCourse. I loved reading and writing stories and poems and journals, but also of drawing and art classes and making things with my hands. It’s simple to do. LePage: 00:22

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