Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Number 5 You Make your Own Opportunities April 21, 2014 Young architectural interns are awesome … full of promise and possibility. I’ve been around the architectural block more times than I care to admit at this stage of my career and I have learned a few things along the way. Number 3 Should I be an Architect? Why the change of heart?

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Home / Career / Surviving Architecture School Surviving Architecture School Bob Borson — December 16, 2013 — 49 Comments Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific. It’s architecture not emergency surgery, mix in some hobbies during the weekend. What about those poor souls?

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 31, 2016

That’s what architecture students did, they built models. Fast forward 20 years and I look around and think: “What happened to all the architectural models?!?” ” We still build architectural models in my office, but not that many – and far fewer than I would like to see built.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

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). The new book, just out, is, however, the biography of architecture’s own Zelig – he has always been around and pops up everywhere. I was just a kid.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Once again, this year, the Architizer Holiday Gift Guide is stacked full of ideas for all the architecture enthusiasts in your life. Designed by the Queen of the Curve, Zaha Hadid, and sold by Alessi, Niche is a beautiful gift for any architecture enthusiast. Little Genius: Architecture. by Zaha Hadid. By Matthew Frederick.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

Are you looking to get a degree in architecture? Naturally there is some overlap and some of these books could fit in multiple headings, this is architecture after all. Your future in architecture depends on your ability to learn and UN-learn – letting go of how things are and imagining new possibilities.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2024

Architecture studios in Central Europe have been chronically overlooked, claims Chybik + Kristof co-founder Ondřej Chybík in this interview. No-one can name anybody" from Central European architecture scene "If I go somewhere and I talk about Czech architecture or Central European architecture, no-one can name anybody," he told Dezeen. "No-one

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

The professional field of architecture comes as a shock to most recent graduates because the real-world is nothing like the studio environment you became familiar with while you were in school. Today’s post is all about helping you prepare yourself for the real world of architecture. Why Should You Read This?

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e-architect

JANUARY 6, 2022

Arquine Competition MEXTÓPOLI 2022 Pavilion, Mexican Design Contest News, Architecture. He is co-founder of AZÓCAR CATRÓN, an Architecture and Urbanism studio and workshop established in Concepción together with Carolina Catrón. Venice Architecture Biennale 2018: “Freespace”, with the installation “Stand Ground”.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

That’s a long time to work at developing the skills it takes to practice architecture. … kids will take a chance. People have their own tools, mores, and values for setting priorities and, as a result, most people view the finished result of “Architecture” without considering the process of creating architecture.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 16, 2017

While most of the judges are not architecturally trained, even they could spot a design that had scale issues. We both work at large architectural practices on international projects, but enjoy the challenge of designing small, community-based projects. I enjoy all kinds of architectural competitions, be it large or small.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This is a guest post written by my friend Taylor Schaub, a 4th-year undergraduate architecture student at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She’s pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture degree with a minor in Business. 21 journal entries per month whether it be writing or sketching. Physical health. Mindfulness.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2017

If you are an architectural student – or a young architecture school graduate – Architectural Portfolios are extremely important. Resumes are important, they can help you get an interview, but few people coming out of architecture school will ever get hired based on their zippy resume.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Bob Borson — February 10, 2014 — 49 Comments The last several years have been hard on the architectural profession. This could be almost anything within the field of architecture – it doesn’t necessarily stick to one thing. Get yourself an architectural blog and that number will grow to 10 Million times.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Front of the school facing Bismarck Strasse (School website) The architectural project with all these features came to my mind when I was wondering which of the projects I have under my belt as an architect could still resonate with the students that I, at times, try to teach one thing or another. I was supposed to manage this project.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 21, 2023

It's not uncommon today to find architecture firms, no doubt driven by savvy marketing departments and PR firms, merging their brands across platforms, such that their monographs resemble their websites. The four recently published monographs that follow provide four diverse expressions for architectural monographs today.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The year 2020 had so many global challenges (climate change induced fires, floods and storms, an international awareness of racism and police violence, a pandemic and at least one super power leader keeping the world on edge) that architecture almost seems like a frivolous footnote. 2020: Man not any longer the center of architecture?

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