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Examining Both Sides of Mentorship with Travis Krimmel

Young Architect

When Travis applied for Architecture school, he didn’t get in right away, but he was undeterred and applied again the following year to Auburn University’s Architecture Program. Going into his 5th and final year of school he realized he was out of money. What architecture school was like for Travis.

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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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Architectural Education Will Change Because The Way Architects Work Will Change

EntreArchitect

Every potential client who architects serve under 40 has created a software derived sketch. Take those tools and multiply their capacities by 1,000 in the coming decades, and architecture changes. I believe architectural education needs to train architects to recognize and harness our innate desire to create.

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Better Project Management for Small Firm Architects

EntreArchitect

The most successful projects though are the ones where we fully understand the people living and working within the architecture we design. Before we grab the roll of trace and start sketching with the Sharpie, we gather as much information about the users of our buildings as possible. So, “I know what I’m doin’ too.”

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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.

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The 14 Books Every Future Architect Should Read

EntreArchitect

When you are in the weeds of construction documents, RFI’s, AFP’s, and need a mind refresher, pick up Thinking Architecture. Tadao Ando Conversations With Students by Tadao Ando – Ando has always been one of my favorite architects since I “discovered” him at my undergrad architecture school library.

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Get your practice on a fast track through technology

EntreArchitect

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. They can sketch and verbally explain functions and relations between spaces while already subconsciously incorporating structure into the design.