Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

For those in this situation, and even for those who do have an architecture background, here’s my advice: In the summer before starting school, spend a ton of time in the library, and an equal amount of time visiting buildings, sketching, and going to lectures and events. When I was looking for schools, that book was my Bible.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

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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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

(Pinterest/from his latest book). A book unexpected and unannounced arrived on my doorstep today: Robert A.M. Stern’s Between Memory and Invention , which I immediately mistook for an update of an earlier volume of his, Tradition and Invention in Architecture (2011). I was just a kid. ” The office is pictured above.

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30X40 Design Workshop

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Before I enrolled in architecture school in the late summer of 1991 (has it been 32 years?), As architecture schools greet new students this fall, I thought it would be fun to revisit that list of “must-haves” after having practiced architecture for 30 years. What’s stood the test of time in my practice?

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Organized by AIA Dallas since 1974, KRob has awarded prizes to works that best represent the artistic qualities of architecturally inspired drawings created digitally or by hand. This competition is a big deal and there are typically hundreds of entries from all over the world from both professionals, students and all points in between.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

The Not so Sexy Side of Architecture Practicing architecture for 99.9% The practice of architecture is more than sketching on trace paper, parti diagrams, deciding what pens to draw with, groupies, and last-minute trips to Vegas. Maybe you shouldn’t be in architecture school … you don’t have what it takes.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It also has a new translation of Ando’s essay “Le Corbusier and His Houses,” with photos of more than 100 models of Le Corbusier houses made by Ando’s students in Tokyo, 2001, with Ando's commentary included in English for the first time. The two-part exhibition had two curators: Eric Mumford did the Corbu component and Daniel J.

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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. The schooling that I received addressed the Art of Architecture, as well has history, etc.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

One thing we really work on is trying to get our interns working on something that has value, things that contribute to the office in a positive manner, and something that has value to them when they return to school. We had college architectural interns make this model – they are in their model-making prime!

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

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. For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to be an architect. I know I believe it. Alan Manning Great!

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

For the purposes of today’s article, I am going to assume that all architectural drawings are correct and serve their purpose of conveying intent, scope and quantity. When I graduated from architecture school in 199[mumble-mumble], computers were not that prevalent. But that’s not really the entire story is it?

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Front of the school facing Bismarck Strasse (School website) The architectural project with all these features came to my mind when I was wondering which of the projects I have under my belt as an architect could still resonate with the students that I, at times, try to teach one thing or another. Let me explain why.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Reading the exhibition book reveals, that the critics who accused Koolhaas of an elitist perspective just didn’t read the global explorations of countrysides and its historical background. Is the 10 day construction of a hospital from modular units architecture? To hear the man himself thinking, click here ).

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