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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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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From Cubicles to Community: The Future City. (Part 2)

Community Architect

An ideal picture of education for me includes small class sizes where teachers are well-trained, well-respected, impassioned, and empowered with the expertise and the resources to provide the academic, social, and emotional support students need to thrive. Higher education will remain as important anchors for the future city as well.

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What It’s Really Like to Own a Home Between Three People

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An increasing number of first-time homebuyers are pooling their finances to purchase property outside of the traditional nuclear framework. We spoke to the trio about how they navigated the whirlwind home-buying process with attention to everyone’s needs (and worries), as well as the logistics of their group finances and overall living setup.

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Almost 40 Tips for Starting an Architecture Firm

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We decided to submit our proposal for an event called “Planning a Practice”, which would bring together an Architect, attorney, finance, and branding/strategic marketer to teach young architects the fundamental skills for starting their own practice. Keep track of your finances. Plan ahead and develop a forecast for your finances.

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Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

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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Norilsk Design Competition, Russia

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Later on, during the informal program I went to places that are typical for the identity of Norilsk like the abandoned old mines in the hills with the monument for the gulag camps with the different nationalities. But also the actual more industrialized mines where we went in with a group. It made a big impression on me.

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Building Science, Climate Change and The Pretty Good House (Transcript)

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I think we all have our things and things we deal with in that happens to be mine. It wasn’t going to pay back my student loans. I shared mine and you shared yours and you and I had had a conversation through the group and which led to this podcast. So it’s easier to finance these things a little bit longer.