Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

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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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 11, 2015

“Citizen Architect” is a phrase that – if you are in the field of architecture – you hear a lot. There are certain moments that I can recall when I learned of something that has fundamentally changed who I am as a person – moments that made me both feel wonderful and terrible at the same time.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Since marble is a natural product, it is going to evolve and change over time and with use no matter how much you baby it. However, there have been times when I’ve had a party and I’m playing bartender , and in my haste to be a good host, I might slop a teeny-tiny bit when mixing up my cocktails.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Home / Life in General / An American in London An American in London Bob Borson — February 17, 2014 — 49 Comments I am in desperate need of a holiday – for lots of reasons. Why not do both … a blog post on my vacation? about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect?

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A4 Architects

AUGUST 24, 2023

White Horse Tavern As any regular reader of the A4 Architecture blog well knows, Newport, Rhode Island is a city with a rich history dating back to its founding in 1639. At the date of the Declaration of Independence, it was the fifth-most populace city in the American colonies and a major center of trade and commerce.

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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. Leave your current practice on good terms.

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Community Architect

APRIL 20, 2024

Traces of San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, Boston's Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, promoted by a visionary developer, designed by a Harvard Dean of architecture, nearly defeated in a referendum, those are the ingredients that made Baltimore's HarborPlace a model for urban waterfronts around the world nearly half a century ago.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

And who will secure a place among the 100 finalists and get themselves featured in the next edition of “ 100 Drawings That Tell Stories About Architecture “? Only time will tell — to put yourself in the running, submit a drawing to the competition before October 21st : Submit a Drawing.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 30, 2014

The SIP research home was five times more airtight than the wood-frame room when measured by a blower door test. Just letting you know in advance so you don’t feel the need to correct me next time you and I are talking SIPs over a beer. Sounds good doesn’t it?

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 13, 2019

On January 14th, 2010 my life was irrevocably changed, mostly for the better, when I decided to start a blog site and start talking about what it meant to be, and work with, an architect. That class was Architecture and Society and was taught by the great (and extremely popular) Larry Speck, FAIA.

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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. I suppose that this seems fortuitous to some people but there were times when this presented serious complications. “ to “ Why should I become an Architect? and What are you actually good at doing?

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Home / Blog / Out with the Old, In with the New Out with the Old, In with the New Bob Borson — December 30, 2013 — 58 Comments It’s pre-dawn on a Sunday and I am currently sitting in my kitchen, the rest of my house still in bed, trying to get my bearings in place before the new year kicks off in earnest.

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Community Architect

APRIL 7, 2023

Various business and cultural relations exist including through the Baltimore Creative Alliance. Various business and cultural relations exist including through the Baltimore Creative Alliance. Murphy also organized and moderated a Baltimore Rotterdam webinar series addressing urban design issues. Part 1 covered transportation.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 24, 2018

This is the transcript from EntreArchitect Podcast Episode 229, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Architecture. Duo Dickinson and we’re speaking about artificial intelligence and the future of architecture. Listen to this podcast episode or download the audio file here. Start Transcript. We will show you how.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 2, 2018

I attended the American Institute of Architects National Convention in New York for a week and then immediately after I rolled into a week-long vacation in Maine. I’ve never been to Maine before and since it was geographically convenient, it seemed like the right time to go.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

I did, however, ask everyone to tell me what their favorite building was … the one that they truly loved. [ One of Scarpa’s few ground up commissions, it is an exquisite lesson in architecture telling a story through metaphor. A beauty of youth, of conviction, of place, and of occasion. Simple plan.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

If you have gone through the process yourself in the last 10 years you know exactly what I mean – it seems like there is a never-ending line of people with their hands out, telling you that you have to pay for every single step along the way – and we all know that there are a lot of steps along the way to becoming a licensed architect.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 12, 2018

Spend less time on accounting and more time doing the work that you love. He’s also a member of the EntreArchitect Facebook group, the EntreArchitect community, which is where we connected, and he shares his knowledge in that group all the time. Listen to this podcast episode or download the audio file here. Thanks Mark.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MAY 30, 2022

an ambitious treatise that combines stories from daily life in Syria with observations of cities such as Detroit, Helsinki, Bristol, Beirut, Dubai, and Amsterdam. American Urbanist: How William H. An effective business can learn from good public places," Rein writes.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everything I have learned about succeeding in business as a small firm architect has come to me in two ways; either through trial and error (with lots and lots of error) or through the many dozens of business and “self-help” books that I’ve read over my many years as an architect. by Seth Godin. by Seth Godin.

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