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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. What happens when you are actually still in school? The person with the most skills typically wins.

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Customizing Textures for ‘Post-Digital’ Visualizations

Ronen Bekerman

Working in architecture over the years, Ryan Canning found that he’s often unable to find the exact material he needs for an image (really!), ending up manually adjusting one in Photoshop. Line drawing taken straight from SketchUp and brought into Photoshop. Image with block colors applied to the main elements.

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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

The general consensus from the feedback on that article was that I was wasn’t wrong … I would like to add a few more chapters to the topic of architectural interns and demonstrate that being an architectural intern doesn’t always have to be a mostly empty experience of model building and material library organizing.

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Photo's #frommydesk | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

All of my pictures are taken with my cell phone because the idea of using a proper camera, coming back and editing the image in photoshop and THEN publishing it seems to defeat the immediacy of the platform. October 18th, 2012 “so what’s the architects preferred consumption sequence with these M&M’s?

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Man versus Machine – Architectural Sketch Series

Life of an Architect

I actually made a few versions of these tile layout studies and during the photoshop assembly of getting them ready for today’s post, I cleaned up the perimeter’s edge (that’s the black line defining the outline of the elevation).

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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.