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Inside the mind of an architecture student

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Five years of a learning experience The mind of an architecture student is indeed a cauldron filled with fretting emotions, art, thought-provoking ideas, stories, and myriad experiences. But like everything, architecture has its pros and cons.

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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.

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The Best Architectural Websites 2015

Life of an Architect

Since I don’t have a blog roll on my site, I am going to put together a yearly list of my favorite websites. So let’s get to it – in no particular order, Life of an Architect’s Favorite Websites for 2015 : [drumroll] Colossal Colossal began in 2010 as the personal art and design blog of Christopher Jobson.

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Architecture and The Art of Getting it Wrong | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

The education of an architect intentionally and systematically breaks down the creative process “baggage” and untrained habits of their students, and then starts the process of rebuilding that process in a non-stigmatized environment. Which would explain why I’m at this blog. Probably too much so.

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Best Architectural Websites 2016

Life of an Architect

Not only is it an engaging site, you can refine the areas you look at to categories focused on sketching , art, competitions, essays … kind of everything you would ever want to know. Lee writes about his architectural practice, educating future architects, and the cause and effect the two have with one another.

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Rule of Halves

Architects Tales

25 for the blog, architects-tales.com, Copyright 2019 by Dale R. Census Bureau, employment in the architectural sector went from 190,000 in 2006 to 165,000 in 2011. That is a 13% decline – while schools continued to graduate 10,000 or more architectural students per year. Beaux Arts’ jury method?

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What do we design for? Who do we design for? [10]

A Better Built Environment

Our blog posts are exclusively written about projects that are either still in the design phase, or are under construction. Iain made it accessible through his development map and regular blog posts. We cover both new buildings and major alterations or additions to old buildings.

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