SW Oregon Architect
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA (photo by Codera23, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) An earlier blog entry of mine, “ Genealogy of Influence ,” promised a series of posts about the architects and theorists who influenced my architectural world view. Cret instilled in his students a reverence for Beaux-Arts principles.
Life of an Architect
APRIL 22, 2018
Four of the Five panelists ran through their applications before an audience mostly made up of current architecture students. I have also been taking part in a handful of architecture school jury panels lately.
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Life of an Architect
OCTOBER 23, 2013
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.
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?
Life of an Architect
JULY 19, 2014
Or, at least now you’re wondering how, since I literally just told you about that… Being from Frisco, TX (a 15-year-old suburb city with 500 sports fields and nearly as many schools), I had some pretty unique opportunities as a high school student. There are at least a thousand more me’s out there, looking for a gig like mine.
Life of an Architect
DECEMBER 28, 2014
Number 2 Your Projects from Architecture School are Silly September 4, 2014 Projects in architectural school tend to be somewhat outrageous – designing something to exist on the dark side of the moon isn’t all that unlikely. But what is the point of designing these incredibly odd and silly projects?
Life of an Architect
MAY 7, 2014
These days, many students work from home or their apartments since the work is done digitally. Also, where I spent a ridiculous amount of time building basswood models, most of the students I talk to these days send their digital files to a laser cutter and have the pieces of their model cut for them.
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