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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

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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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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that one-word term is used more prevalently, if not strictly, in regards to individual architects and/or firms. A book on Le Corbusier is a monograph.

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Dear Future Architects – You need to Hear This

Life of an Architect

Simply based on my inbox, there is a new batch of bright and shiny new future architects about to graduate and they are on the hunt for their future … hopefully in an office like mine. The Not so Sexy Side of Architecture Practicing architecture for 99.9% What’s the Right Size Firm for You? Big or Small?

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Architectural Tricks of the Trade | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

″ – drawing title on one side and the firm’s logo on the other side. Here it is – an unfolded 11″x17″ piece of paper … if your office is anything like mine, you have thousands of these laying about your space. ″ x 7.5″ could you be any more excited?!?) This should fit in a 9 x 14.5

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Should I be an Architect? | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I think I knew that I had gamed the system a bit and part of this identity crisis came from the knowledge that I hadn’t ever really had to work before and now that I was in one of the most premier architecture programs in the country, that somehow I hadn’t really earned it. Something a master machine can’t make.

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