Life of an Architect

JULY 4, 2016

It’s a space for us to shine a light on creativity we’re inspired by – design that’s educational, eco-friendly or just plain awesome. 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.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Most of those posts have focused on the process of becoming an architect after you’ve graduated from college so today I thought I would jot down some things from my collegiate days that will probably resonate with others who have already gone through and survived the process known as “Architecture School.”

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

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 did not say I was an architecture student, which I certainly was not. I was just a kid.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 16, 2017

Monster Land Designers : Alisson Villarreal (Atlantico, Colombia) and Roberto Cuevas ( Atlantico, Colombia) Bio (Alisson): I’m an Industrial Designer who shares a love for art, spaces, color, contrast and nature. I participated in a number of architectural competitions, some of which were rewarded.

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Architizer

JANUARY 17, 2023

For young architecture students and experienced practitioners alike, the book remains a source of inspiration and a constant reminder of the infinite possible experiences inherent to any place. This year’s One Drawing Challenge Non-Student Winner, Thomas Schaller , is one of those architects.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It could be a cityscape, an individual building, or even an architectural detail. It could be a plan, section, elevation, perspective, axonometric projection, sketch or abstract. As long as it includes architecture in some ways, it is eligible. Awe-Inspiring Atmosphere. Dystopian Warning. Fantasy Island. Sustainable City.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The objects were selected by the curators, who also penned texts for the book — all expressing the museum's primary goal: "to inspire people to see how design impacts their lives." It's refreshing to see architecture students tackling affordable housing in creative ways. Daley) that make the embrace of broader contexts sensible.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

x 10) - $15 I’m a big advocate of sketching, despite the fact that I am not particularly adept in my own sketching “style” I get a lot of Moleskine journals as gifts but the one I’ve listed above is my favorite. Since half of my sketches are total clunkers, the cahier journals seem just a bit more forgiving.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I think through drawing and sketching, for others they might turn towards computer software … I don’t really care. I started out pre-med, I’m smart, like you, I never really had to work hard and got into a top liberal arts school. How can someone not approve of ART? How can someone not approve of ART?

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The Architect's Guide

APRIL 8, 2021

Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design The debate surrounding hand drawing versus computer-generated imagery has become a hot topic. Sketching, and the careful observation that it entails, is essential for the successful development of the next generation of designers. Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If I ever saw something that an architecture student needed, this is it. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Landscape and Architecture $45 by Michael Sheridan (Author) and‎ Michael Holm (Editor) Fun Fact: The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is located just outside Copenhagen, Denmark and NOT in Louisiana.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 21, 2023

Although much of the machine-inspired architecture of the nineties remained on paper or in model form, the projects were clearly proposals to be built, be it an unlikely monastery , a more reasonable house or apartment building, or most obviously an industrial structure (an example of the last, by Holt Hinshaw Jones, was built at UCLA in 1994 ).

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Frank Lloyd Wright was cenot only a gifted architect but also the incarnation of the arrogant white man architect, a man with a dubious relationship to women and an attitude that is said to have inspired Ayn Rand's "Fountainhead" novel of the lone architect hero who always knows better. Oh what discussions this can inspire!

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