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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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Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas

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It's an excellent book, as is the second installment in Leslie's series of books on skyscrapers in Chicago, but the subtitle of the second book, How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City , indicates the incorporation of those wider contexts eschewed in the first book. and "foundation" (piles, spread, caissons).

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Should I be an Architect? | Life of an Architect

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I’m a 20 year old architecture student from India and I do believe I’m going through an identity crisis, right in the midst of my submissions too! I did mine and everyone, including the teacher, thought my parents did it. This means you may have to learn something about business, finance, development, politics, etc.

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The Costs Associated with becoming an Architect | Life of an Architect

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If you can’t manage your own situation to either gain training at a solid firm which mentors you and is paying for your exams, or manage your own finances to come up with $1800 over a 5 year period, you probably have no business being an architect until you learn those skills. Brett Bouwer Very Interesting article.

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