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Profile of an Architectural Intern – Part One

Life of an Architect

To my bewilderment, when I arrived, Michael waited a whole ten minutes before assigning me the task of driving out, by myself, to meet a new client at her house and conduct an exhaustive series of measurements from which I would generate as-built drawings in Revit.

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My First Project: The Best Project Ever Designed That Wasn’t

Life of an Architect

When I decided to select “My First Project” as a topic for this month’s ArchiTalks topic, I knew instantly which project I would choose to focus on – not because it’s so good, but because I had all sorts of attachments that I could refer to (which is an important consideration when writing an architectural blog).

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Memories from the Architectural Studio | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Memories from Studio / Memories from Studio People who didn’t attend architectural school don’t understand juries. I personally looked at it as character building and preparing us for that bad client. I also witnessed a couple of bad clients, too. Building with Structural. oh well, it was drafted well.

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#ArchiSketch | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

thinking through sketching Hashtags used: #architectural #sketch #detail #whatanarchitectdoes. a different sort of teaching sketch … this one’s for the contractor Hashtags used: #sketch. Sharp Bob, As a recent graduate of architecture school – I’m proud to call myself an avid sketch artist.

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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. maybe there is, maybe the client wants or needs that!

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Architectural Graphic Standards | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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. The end user of our work is the contractor.

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Design Voice Podcast with Catherine Meng (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

Do you know how to calculate the exact amount you need to charge your clients in order to earn 20 percent profit on that project? I loved architectural school, but I also know there’s times where you hate it. Listen to this podcast episode or download the audio file here. Start Transcript. It’s simple to do.

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