ArchiDiaries

MAY 7, 2022

Architect Senthil Kumar Doss graduated from ( NIT ) Regional Engineering College, Trichy, in 1999 and began his Architectural career with his Internship at the Internationally renowned Architect B.V. Doshi’s office based in Ahmedabad. An ardent on-site, hands-on Architect with a passion for martial arts. Practice Ideology.

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Young Architect

JULY 18, 2023

Chloe's journey into the world of architecture is a testament to this. What started as a passion for sketching and drawing eventually led her to apply to an architecture program in college. While most students find architecture school progressively harder, Chloe felt quite the opposite.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 27, 2015

9 Architectural Sketches – Keep or Throw Away? Published : 12 January 2015 Views : 17,486 Why You Should Read it : Do Architects hang on to their sketches? I generate a lot of sketches in the process of being an architect and historically speaking, I throw them away.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2016

What About Sketching? I’m not sure that it’s that big a deal nowadays – and it would seem that most graduating architecture students don’t really know how to sketch based on the portfolio’s I’ve seen. Presentation skills are far more important than anybody in school actually realizes.

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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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Lines on Paper

JANUARY 4, 2022

Over time, it develops its own identity - it is like a signature; unique and often hard to replicate. This is why in the earlier years of architecture school, students are asked to make cardboard models, and prototypes and scale models of their furniture designs.

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Stephen B Chambers Architects

AUGUST 16, 2016

I learned to design in architecture school using freehand sketching and manual drafting. And though others in my profession often use computers to assist their design, I still begin with the sketch…by hand. Often, I look down at the blank piece of paper without a definite sense of what the design wants to be.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

With that in mind, many things about Stern’s early years in Brooklyn struck a note with me – his upbringing, his religion, his family’s immigration – but none more so than the story of his invasion, at the age of 15, of the office, on New York City’s Madison Avenue, of the mega-developer William Zeckendorf.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

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. Drawing is a skill, not a gift, and with all skills it can developed with practice.

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Lines on Paper

JUNE 12, 2021

To learn about projects in various stages : schematic Design, Design Development etc) l Ask if there is a probation period. It is not directly related to their training in school at the present time but it certainly opens their eyes to the many facets of our profession. Ask to be involved in projects. (To

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 2, 2015

So, now that I was 5 and my future was all mapped out thanks to a piece of wood, clearly I spent my formative years studying the architectural masters, sketching, building models, playing with concrete and 2×4’s. Would you be surprised to learn that I struggled a lot that first year?

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

That’s a long time to work at developing the skills it takes to practice architecture. … kids will take a chance. Finding this balance takes time to develop because the impractical and the practical are at odds with one another. Develop a problem or a ask question. Am I right? Or are they?

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Architects Tales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Backing up a bit, when I graduated from architecture school, I returned to Wisconsin to look for a job with an architectural firm to continue my apprenticeship. All of us worked for Henry McKnight, a real estate developer and former Minnesota state senator. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 5] The U.S.

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Shades of Grey

MARCH 25, 2023

Returning to architecture school as a mature student I was pursuing the idea of architecture as the reflection of a particular time and place, often subliminally expressed. I was gathering quotes to this effect from architects of note and illustrating them with enigmatic sketches using a mirror as metaphor.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 16, 2017

The Club House Designer : Eloy Diaz Prado (Delicias, Mexico) Bio : I just graduated Architecture school (technically was a year ago). I like to travel with my wife when our schedules allow, design and build furniture, and of course, sketch different designs of buildings or anything that comes to mind.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 25, 2021

After getting into architecture school, one of the first things you learn is that the profession requires a lot of sacrifices and many years in order to reach success. The final level, wisdom, occurs when multiple knowledge structures are developed and deepened. Sacrifice and Patience.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The model that I thought I would show today is for a residential project we currently have in development. I asked Michael Malone and his response was pretty simple: “The house is pretty large and this model was an ongoing study model to review the interior spaces and material unit sizes as the project is being developed.”

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 25, 2017

Sharing Architecture With Kids. If you’re anything like me, my guess is that you loved your time in architecture school. You get to use your talents and develop it with loose abandon, explore your interests and learn all about design and architecture – one of the coolest fields in the world. I love it.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 18, 2017

Systems are the sound structure of a successful architectural firm. They establish the discipline required for financial success and the freedom to develop a portfolio of highly developed architecture. We revisit the cost with any changes in scope and again following Design Development Phase.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2017

If you are an architectural student – or a young architecture school graduate – Architectural Portfolios are extremely important. Resumes are important, they can help you get an interview, but few people coming out of architecture school will ever get hired based on their zippy resume.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 24, 2013

Systems are the sound structure of a successful architectural firm. They establish the discipline required for financial success and the freedom to develop a portfolio of highly developed architecture. We revisit the cost with any changes in scope and again following Design Development Phase. Listen carefully.

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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. This means you may have to learn something about business, finance, development, politics, etc.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 11, 2015

If the business failed, I would keep those skills: WordPress development, writing, publishing, blogging, marketing, e-mail list management, e-commerce, copywriting are, valuable by any measure in today’s economy. For each day I develop a list of the three (specific) things that will move my business forward.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 4, 2014

Graeme K You mentioned that your blog is getting young people excited about becoming an architect; I’m now weeks away from completing my final year in architecture school in Scotland and there have been many late nights and moments of doubt throughout. Goals are important in personal and professional development.

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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

The project I now remembered had made a lasting impression on me since it was my first assignment when my then prolific boss, Heinz Egenhofer hired me for my first job out of architecture school. Such sketches are what I recommend my students to prepare if they want to test if they really understand their own design.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 30, 2015

Let’s pretend that you are in architecture school – maybe you just started, maybe you’ve been there for a while – I’m not sure that it matters for today’s discussion. If you look at your project and can’t recognize it, you need to keep working until you’ve developed one.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 17, 2020

What mobile and temporary modular units exist and how could the US support developing nations with spatial solutions? That immersion evolved into the architecture school whose alumni have worked on important Frank Lloyd Wright designs including Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum.

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