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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. Be a participant in developing your education – nobody can read your mind and know what you want.

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Do I Have to Be an Artist to Be an Architect?

The Student Architect

So many people feel the same as you do, and many of them let those thoughts get in the way of pursuing their dream to study architecture. Let's make one thing clear—architecture school isn't art school. Of course, it does, but there's so much more to architecture than drawing a pretty picture. Try collaging!

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Customizing Textures for ‘Post-Digital’ Visualizations

Ronen Bekerman

, ending up manually adjusting one in Photoshop. Fast forward one year, and he built this tool that can help with Customizing Textures for ‘Post-Digital’ Visualizations called Architextures Create after learning web development as a hobby. Line drawing taken straight from SketchUp and brought into Photoshop. perspective.

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“22 Gordon Street” Reimagines the Bartlett School as a Monstrous Manifestation of Architectural Experimentation

Architizer

The rendering, however, is not only concerned with the evolution of the building itself; it uses the architecture school building as a metonym to imagine an alternative model for architectural education and the profession as a whole. “In

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Profile of an Architectural Intern – Part One

Life of an Architect

Seeing no rational reason to decline, and having already developed a sense of ownership over my work and a sense of pride in the firm, I did indeed return the next summer. I’m now being trusted to work on multiple billable projects at once, including a 50% work-share on a house in Oklahoma that is now undergoing design development in Revit.

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Architectural Portfolios

Life of an Architect

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.