Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Home / Design / KRob 2013 – Architectural Delineation Competition KRob 2013 – Architectural Delineation Competition Bob Borson — October 10, 2013 — 27 Comments If you like architectural “drawings” than you’ve just landed on the mother lode.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 4, 2016

my internet explorer history ) and peer feedback ( I asked some people I know ) I have created “the” definitive listing of the Best Architectural Websites in the World for 2016. c) you can’t be a forceful vacuum I give a lot of credit for effort – both in real life and in my architectural websites. You’re welcome.

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Shades of Grey

JULY 30, 2021

Freehand sketching and painting on stretched canvas are physical activities that I have always enjoyed. As a student in “the West” I had felt like a small cog in a system that already had too many architects and where success meant helping rich people to display their wealth. Then as a mature student I proceeded to dive in headfirst.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 9, 2021

This is because we are on the edge of a complete flip in how every service industry functions, including medicine, law, and architecture. Every potential client who architects serve under 40 has created a software derived sketch. Take those tools and multiply their capacities by 1,000 in the coming decades, and architecture changes.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

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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

MARCH 23, 2014

Home / Architects / The Best Architectural Websites 2014 The Best Architectural Websites 2014 Bob Borson — March 24, 2014 — 27 Comments The Best Architectural Websites in the World. c) you can’t suck I give a lot of credit for effort – both in real life and in my architectural websites.

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Community Architect

APRIL 7, 2023

Rotterdam - City of Architecture (Photo: Philipsen) Through my past teaching and current mentoring role at Morgan State University I was invited to participate in the student and faculty architecture trip to Rotterdam organized by Murphy. It is this variety that tells the story of the city.

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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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Shades of Grey

APRIL 4, 2023

That's the year my youngest son was born, and 36 years later I'm staying with him for 3 weeks as an experiment in what I'm calling "hybrid retirement" That means a mixture of remote work and doing this kind of "way we build" private study that started with my blog and has blossomed out in various ways. Just a thought.

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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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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

The future of architecture is female. That’s what recent A+Awards winners have taught us, with more women than ever leading teams in conceptualizing, designing and delivering some of the world’s best architecture around the globe. Women have been the creative force behind dozens of winning projects in recent seasons, from B.L.U.E.

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Architecture Quote

JULY 7, 2020

This is ultimate the guide to architecture marketing and digital marketing for architects. We start with basics of branding and go into deep detail on how to use digital marketing to grow your architecture company. Chapter 1 – Marketing for Architects – Branding Your Architecture Company. Architecture-work-photos.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2016

There were sketching posts, technical posts, career advice posts, and general observation type posts … none of which represented a category of runaway favorites, but they definitely had their own “user” group. What about your sketching? just to see if there was some sort of pattern that emerged.

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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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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 21, 2022

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. This installment features six monographs published between December 2020 and January 2022.

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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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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Home / Architects / Architectural Models Architectural Models Bob Borson — September 12, 2013 — 33 Comments One of the biggest changes I have seen since moving over to my new office is that the number of scale models has gone up considerably. Can’t wait to go to architecture school.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MAY 30, 2022

Here is the next installment of "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. Nakashima's involvement is one of many things I learned in the short but necessary book on an important work of modern architecture.

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Architecture Quote

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Architecture software tools help architects streamline, automate, and optimize their output. Thanks to a growing market of architecture software tools , we’re all producing high-end work and delivering projects faster than ever. Here are 140+ software tools architecture firms need to know about to stay ahead in 2020.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s hard for me to process that when I wrote the very first gift guide back in 2010 that this would become the most requested blog post that I would write every single year. While this would get more use by an architect that tends to sketch more, I still believe that it is useful to any architect.

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Architecture Quote

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This blog lists the 20 best drawing tablets for architects available in the market with features such as: Size: A greater surface area offers larger space to draw, sketch or edit. Architecture Drawing Tablet: Wacom Cintiq 22 Drawing Tablet. Architecture Display Tablet – XP-Pen Artist Display 22R Pro. Drawing Tablet.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

For the purposes of today’s article, I am going to assume that all architectural drawings are correct and serve their purpose of conveying intent, scope and quantity. When I graduated from architecture school in 199[mumble-mumble], computers were not that prevalent. Your blog is the now part of my daily digest.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 11, 2018

The first of which is was most recently focused on in the new series “ Architectural Sketches ” … in this case, it was the second installment where I took a focused look at the retail component of a 20,000 square foot new development that will include a medical practice as well as additional tenant space. Yes, please.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 10, 2018

Almost 40 tips for Starting an Architecture Firm. After obtaining my license as an Architect in New York, I brainstormed several long term goals and decided to start a personal blog, develop design projects, and learn everything that I could about starting an architecture firm. Develop a strategic plan for your business.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 25, 2021

After graduating, a lot of young people encounter a slow start beginning their careers in architecture. After getting into architecture school, one of the first things you learn is that the profession requires a lot of sacrifices and many years in order to reach success. Thus, we are driven to ask: Why is architecture different?

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MAY 30, 2023

Two weeks ago I was in Venice for the Biennale, covering the 18th International Architecture Exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko for World-Architects. My 2018 trip yielded a pair of "book briefs" on this blog with two handfuls of catalogs from the main exhibition, some from the national pavilions, and some on collateral events.

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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. Deciding to write this blog has in many ways become a watershed moment for me in my career. Home / Architects / Should I be an Architect? Should I be an Architect? and What are you actually good at doing?

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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. I’ve actively tried to utilize the pre-planned routines that I hear or see in podcasts and blogs.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 9, 2014

Jess Hopkin If it’s any consolation, I use sketch up all the time for trying to make my point at uni Tony Bob, Im new to your blog, and I have had some reading a lot of your posts and insight. Next time you get one, see if you can work in something about your student loans being completely paid off – LOL!

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Since a big part of my role in the office is to mentor and shape the younger architects and interns ( Lord Corbusier, please have mercy upon their architectural souls ), when I find myself going over “a lesson” it becomes the seed for one of these advice posts. heard around the. Paul Scharnett Bob, Great advice.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 2, 2014

Home / Blog / To Delete or Not To Delete … To Delete or Not To Delete … Bob Borson — April 3, 2014 — 91 Comments There are times when I am a glass is half-full sort of person and there are times when I am a glass-half-full-needs-to-be-poured-over-your-head type person. To sum up, I am not my blog.

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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

JUNE 11, 2014

Since a number of people don’t seem to understand this concept, I thought I would whip together some sketches to help illustrate my point. Love the sketches too. As a student, we do not see things such as this! If you can’t read drawings, hopefully my explanation will be good enough for you to understand. Thanks Bob.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

So far we have seen the contents from: Architect Architecture Student Drywall Contractor Interior Designer Photographer Today we get to take a look inside the bag of Dallas based environmental graphic designer – Steve Jordan of Steve Jordan Design. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.'

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 30, 2014

Why Architects should Blog Theresa Hi Bob: I know you professionally and you’ll do great at this task! Robbie Darling Bob I am an architecture student, and recently I got to design a small dwelling, which included its own small kitchen. Patrick Bob, excited to see where the blog will be headed in the upcoming months.

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