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Architectural Sketching [or How to Sketch like Bob] | Life of an Architect

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Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Career / Surviving Architecture School Surviving Architecture School Bob Borson — December 16, 2013 — 49 Comments Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific. What happens when you are actually still in school? What’s the Right sized firm for you?

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Uncovering the Next Step with Architect Brad Michael

Young Architect

Brad decided to look into the profession of Architecture when a teacher of his in high school noticed that he excelled in math and suggested he might excel in architecture also. That propelled Brad to go to Architecture school at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His struggles in navigating school.

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Architizer Holiday Gift Guide 2022

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Niche is produced from black melamine and has a smooth, matte finish that makes the pieces pleasing to the touch and easy on the eye. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School. It’s perfect for taking notes or jotting down quick sketches when you’ve forgotten a pen or pencil —again. By Matthew Frederick.

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Architecture in the Real World … sorta

Life of an Architect

One of the most common themes of these emails is that architecture school is nothing like working in the real world. I loved playing with Lego’s as a child (variation 1b is “I used to sketch up house plans as a child.”) I was still in architecture school as everyone else graduated. ”) 2.

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Bob Stern and Bill Brussat

Architecture Here and There

The new book, just out, is, however, the biography of architecture’s own Zelig – he has always been around and pops up everywhere. I have not finished the first chapter, but it has inspired this serendipitous post. I wrote about her the day after she died in this column for the Journal, “ Sketching my mom of moms.”

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Dear Future Architects – You need to Hear This

Life of an Architect

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.