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Book Briefs #41: Six Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

I've decided to bring back "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog.

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

A Better Built Environment

Book Club The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber I just finished reading the E-Myth revisited and although it isn’t design/architecture specific, I have to say it strikes a lot of chords with me.

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Bob Stern and Bill Brussat

Architecture Here and There

(Pinterest/from his latest book). A book unexpected and unannounced arrived on my doorstep today: Robert A.M. Stern’s Between Memory and Invention , which I immediately mistook for an update of an earlier volume of his, Tradition and Invention in Architecture (2011). I was just a kid. Pinterest).

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Putting in the Work

Life of an Architect

I had a moment this evening that made me rethink the post I was originally going to publish today – something else took roost in my head and writing these blog posts over the last several years has become cathartic for me. Surprisingly, I’m not here to reminisce about the good old days. Guess what else I worked on?

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Rule of Halves

Architects Tales

25 for the blog, architects-tales.com, Copyright 2019 by Dale R. For aspiring architects, the rule is first encountered as students when they enter architectural school and are told that one half of the students in their class will drop out either in the first year or no later than before graduation. As Roger K.

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Young Architect Gift Guide – 2022 Edition

Young Architect

I know it’s been a few years, but here are the previous Architect Gift Blog Posts: The Young Architect Gift Guide 2014. Architecture Student’s Christmas List – 2014. 2015 Top 50 Architecture Books. Gifts and Toys For Architecture Students. Architecture Gifts for Kids.