The Architect's Guide

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Along with a T-square (if the board does not include a straightedge), pencil , and chair , a drafting board is a must-have item for hand drawing as an architect or student. US Art Supply Extra Large Adjustable Wood Artist Drawing & Sketching Board 26" Wide x 21" Tall. So here is my list of The 10 Best Drafting Boards. 19.75" x 29.5"

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

All students and professionals are encouraged to submit entries, which are judged by a three member panel that includes industry recognized visionaries in the graphic arts. This competition is a big deal and there are typically hundreds of entries from all over the world from both professionals, students and all points in between.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 4, 2016

Not only is it an engaging site, you can refine the areas you look at to categories focused on sketching , art, competitions, essays … kind of everything you would ever want to know. Just be warned, it might take some time to get a response, this is an architectural student website and she’s probably on a deadline.

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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

This fantastic Guest blog post about: Finding the Best Architecture Graduate Program for YOU was written by Architect John Maternoski. You’re surrounded by other cool graduate students who have unique backgrounds and so many ideas and experiences to share. Young Architect. 5 Tips for Finding Best Architecture Graduate School.

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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

This fantastic Guest blog post about: How to Find the Best Architecture Graduate School was written by Architect John Maternoski. It includes what they specialize in, how many students and faculty members they have, and a short description of each program. Young Architect. 5 Tips for Finding Best Architecture Graduate School.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Makes me want to get out my sketch book and try and start working on my own delineation skills. Cheers Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Design Architects , architectural sketching , architectural technology , design Reading between the Lines What to Get an Architect for.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

If your school doesn’t put any sort of emphasis on sketching, burn an elective (or two) and take a class over in the arts building. Architectural Portfolio’s and their true purpose Architectural Sketching Taking the Architectural Registration Exam Do you want to be an Architect? may I make a suggestion for a blog post?

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EntreArchitect

MAY 9, 2021

Every potential client who architects serve under 40 has created a software derived sketch. There are now approximately 6,000 students graduating from US architecture schools each year, and 6,000 professors guiding architectural education. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years.

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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

I did not say I was an architecture student, which I certainly was not. As Paul Rudolph later emphasized to students: “Even the king of Seagram’s had to put up with a nine-foot ceiling.” I wrote about her the day after she died in this column for the Journal, “ Sketching my mom of moms.”

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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. Electronic Sketch Pad / Drawing Tablet Price: $$. Tablet for Digital Sketching Price: $. Sketch Pad Price: $. and 10 and MacOS 10.12

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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.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The education of an architect intentionally and systematically breaks down the creative process “baggage” and untrained habits of their students, and then starts the process of rebuilding that process in a non-stigmatized environment. Which would explain why I’m at this blog. a bus depot.) Probably too much so.

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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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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. Although she does not have a website, she can be found on LinkedIn , Instagram , and as a previous guest on Life of An Architect Blog. nosce te ipsum: know thyself. Physical health.

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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

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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Architizer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

She also won the Top Student Prize in the 2021 One Drawing Challenge! She is the ambassador of Morpholio, the Sketching app for Architects and designers and also one of the partners of Arquiforma, a Brazilian platform for students. Left: Bob Borson; right: The Life of an Architect blog. Bob Borson, FAIA.

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Shades of Grey

MAY 29, 2022

This blog is for me. My son Joe told me what a blog was about 16 years ago, or tried to. He was a student in Cape Town. The focus of this blog has been to document my personal journey, my weekends of exploring ideas. I like to draw with Revit which allows me to incorporate 3d and data into my sketch.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 1, 2013

If you sketch something with a dead-end corridor that’s too long, and the intern catches it and drafts a viable solution, instead, while they are doing everything else, I think they should be rewarded for that. Kymberly Having mentored many students, I can say that your advice and analogy are spot on. Send to Email Address.

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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? That’s what architecture students do, they build models.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The fact I included a case study chapter in Buildings in Print , as mentioned above, points to my appreciation of this sub-genre of architecture books but also to the role they have played in teaching architecture students, spreading knowledge around important works, and promoting architects and architecture within and beyond the profession.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 10, 2018

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. Have a website or blog. Almost 40 tips for Starting an Architecture Firm.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

While this represents progress, both gender and racial inequality and discrimination remains widespread in the architecture industry , from student bodies and educational institutions right through to professional organizations and the workplace as a whole. Left: ARE Sketches Volume I; right: Lora Teagarden. Anna Maria Bordas.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Deciding to write this blog has in many ways become a watershed moment for me in my career. I think through drawing and sketching, for others they might turn towards computer software … I don’t really care. Get yourself an architectural blog and that number will grow to 10 Million times. I know I believe it.

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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

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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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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EntreArchitect

JULY 25, 2021

During studies, students are mostly taught separately about spatial organization, the basics of structural design, and, perhaps, energy efficiency. They can sketch and verbally explain functions and relations between spaces while already subconsciously incorporating structure into the design.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 23, 2014

Since I don’t have a blog roll on my site, I am going to put together a yearly list of my favorite websites. It offers the insight of a professional architectural site while also providing the personal attention and 1st person narrative of a blog – which you can probably guess is something of which I am particularly fond.

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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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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

And this is a really great blog.:) My office’s models tend to be study-work-in-progress, since I’m faster with an Xacto than perspective – and I detest how so many of my boss’s sketches faked the scale, and other sketches left a wall out and misled the observer/client. Send to Email Address.

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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. Manipulating digital images for college students just wasn’t an option. This is something that I think about every time I look at a portfolio … or even write one of my blog posts.

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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. Murphy also organized and moderated a Baltimore Rotterdam webinar series addressing urban design issues.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

I still enjoy getting out my lead holders and tools to sketch new product ideas. Your blog is the now part of my daily digest. As long as my time is at least 50% billable, I am in the clear to pursue any endeavor I choose: blogging, charity, AIA volunteer – whatever contents my heart. Colin Brown Bob. Just a thought.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MAY 30, 2023

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. I passed on it, as many others did.

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Architecture Quote

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Additionally, Vectorworks offer free software to students and special plans for educational institutions and recent graduates. The company offers discounts for students and educators. CATIA is open for partnerships among startups and students. Pexels is a tool that provides royalty-free photos for websites, blogs or apps.

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