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Challenging Our Biases

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I also use Twitter to broaden the reach of this blog, as many of my updates announce and link the latest SW Oregon Architect posts. Architectural legacies are complex, as the profession’s pedagogy. There has been without a doubt a Eurocentric bias within the paradigm of architectural education (indoctrination).

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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? The person with the most skills typically wins.

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Inside the mind of an architecture student

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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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A4 Spotlight: RWU Architecture

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Perhaps it is because I have frequently been invited to serve on design juried in the past that I have has the opportunity to see the students present their designs and philosophies publicly. For whatever reason we have just more frequently found a good fit with many students coming out of this program.

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Influences: Louis I. Kahn

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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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The College Years – Episode 0002

Life of an Architect

There are a lot of unknowns when it comes to architecture school: How do I pick which college is right for me? I will still be writing blog posts and the idea will be that I will alternate between podcasts and blog posts. Is it hard to get admitted? Is there a portfolio requirement? Will I have a social life?

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

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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.