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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.

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Do you really want to be an architect?

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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. If you’re a client – I’m here to tell you that you want it.

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Architecture and Math

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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. All math puns intended.

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The 14 Books Every Future Architect Should Read

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Being a successful architect takes more than creating a wonderful idea and presenting it to your client. The work involved in setting up your design firm can be overwhelming and 99% of it was never taught to you in school. I once had a phone call with an architecture student asking for advice. Entrepreneurship.

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Should I be an Architect? | Life of an Architect

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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. It becomes easier to tell the client “No, that’s crap and I’m not designing it that way!”

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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. Big thick black walls look great in parti diagrams.

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Architecture Market Analysis Report

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This includes competent testing and consulting services as neutral trustees of the client. In the search for potential customers, we can look at the work undertaken by architects in Austria for different clients. Concentration of Swiss architecture industry in relation to area. Architecture Billings Index (ABI).