Life of an Architect

MARCH 27, 2014

Home / Memories from Studio / Memories from Studio People who didn’t attend architectural school don’t understand juries. Always look for the positive architectrunnerguy Amazingly during my whole 5 years of architectural school (Va. Building with Structural. oh well, it was drafted well.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

From time to time I’ll hear stories when I’m on the job site about somebody getting their gear stolen – and they always think it was another electrical contractor who took it [probably because they know how expensive all these tools are]. I have 3M in my bag at the moment. Alex Robert nice tools bag. Awesome bag as well.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

From those who have experienced the baths, it is said to be a multi-sensory experience as you move through the different rooms constructed from slabs of the local stone quartzite taken from below the site. It was my first year in architecture school at UH, and it was in the Architecture History class from Prof.

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APRIL 13, 2014

finals time at architecture school frequently gets overwhelming and i felt like giving up on everything. Subscribe by Email Enter your Email Address Delivered by FeedBurner Trending on Life of an Architect Recommended Stuff for Architects Recommended Books for Architects My name is Bob Borson and this is my site. thanks bob.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

You will get to do just about everything sooner rather than later – attend client meetings, contribute to the design, prepare construction drawings, organize and process bidding and negotiating information, and go to job sites. Therefore, anything you read on this site is not a substitute for actually working with me.

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

Profiler I started toward an architecture degree in nineteeneightysomething at USC… I took a hiatus for the Gulf War… When I went back to architecture school in the late nineties… I showed up at a preliminary presentation with an armful of “trace” and realized how much things changed in only five years.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Fast forward a few years – the college process is now complete and architectural schools are churning out extremely creative graduates, ready to take on the design world … except few graduates will actually get to work on “BIG IDEA” design projects.

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APRIL 6, 2014

Just some food for thought … So let’s get to it – here are 5 Tips and Techniques that should improve your architectural sketches [ all the images Ive used in this post were collected off the Life of an Architect site and Instagram feed from the last 4 years. It shows that Ive been consistent in using these techniques.]

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OCTOBER 19, 2013

I found the jambox two years later in one of the other architecture school buildings, sitting there on a table as if that’s where I had left it the two years prior… … with no mix tape. Therefore, anything you read on this site is not a substitute for actually working with me. Following my casual advice is at your own peril.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Cheers, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Life in General , Observations , Travel a day in the life , about bob , Architecture School , bob borson , Travel , traveling Graphic Standards heard around the. Therefore, anything you read on this site is not a substitute for actually working with me.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

When I first started architecture school as a freshman in college, I didn’t have the focus or maturity I needed to tackle the curriculum and I ended up having a serious identity crisis when I was 19 years old. ” So I passed the most difficult part of architecture school to be an architect.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 30, 2014

When the SIPs erection crew gets on site, they spread all the panels all around the site and stage them for quick access and assembly. On site, the method of identifying the panels is definitely old school – a fat magic marker with the panel tag written on the exterior face. It’s like real life Lego.

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JANUARY 14, 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. By the end of year three, writing the posts represented the least amount of time I spent on the site.

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JANUARY 14, 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. By the end of year three, actually writing the posts represented the least amount of time I spent on the site.

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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. But that’s not really the entire story is it?

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AUGUST 15, 2016

Being able to understand why you did something allows you to duplicate your successes without having to replicate your solutions ( pretty sure I’ve said that before on the site here). I was pretty sure that I have spoken about this very topic before so I went and searched through my site.

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Deezen

JUNE 25, 2022

Also included is a pre-school village designed for children's wellbeing and a community hub that aims to provide clarity on climate change action. School: University for the Creative Arts. Courses: BA (Hons) Architecture and Master of Architecture. University for the Creative Arts. The Haaf Netters Rest by Jack Harding.

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OCTOBER 11, 2015

Architectural schools are often staffed with educators who are ill at ease actually practicing in the “real world”. Bob Borson I am an ardent supporter of saying yes, all you have to do is read this site and imagine me sitting on the couch writing articles and preparing graphics rather than jogging around the block.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It is a state architecture board mandate as to what the requirements are for licensure, not NCARB. Look on their site, they say very plainly that, licensure requirements are the prevue of the licensing state body and not that of NCARB. I have a personal friend that failed site planning twice, and months later she got a letter.

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APRIL 28, 2019

Welcome to “The Fun Show” [Note: If you are reading this via email, you will have to click here to access the on-site audio player] Just like the occasional blog post, the podcast (and blog post) today will be a “life” day because we are talking about, well, whatever we want to a certain extent.

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Architizer

JUNE 9, 2023

The end of the Pinochet regime was an important moment for architecture in Chile, leading to a boom in architecture schools and a broader curriculum. COMUNarquitectos © COMUNarquitectos COMUNarquitectos is a firm created in 2010 in Tokyo, Japan with the idea of make architecture mainly for the community.

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Architizer

APRIL 7, 2022

Nowadays, the city remains home to preeminent architectural schools such as UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture. By allowing the process to drive the project, we have built a portfolio of inventive projects, each of which makes the most of the unusual opportunities and particular challenges of its site context.

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AUGUST 26, 2018

Mazzy Star, with haunting lead vocals from Hope Sandoval, came into modest success in the very late 1980’s – the perfect time for me as this was the height of my “working up at studio 10-hours a day” period of architecture school. Carlos is in the song I picked for today’s playlist.

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Architizer

APRIL 21, 2023

Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Architecture © Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Architecture The School of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is a leading architecture school and group of creatives who have won several prestigious architecture awards.

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MAY 7, 2014

/ Architectural Studio – 4 Questions Architectural Studio – 4 Questions Bob Borson — May 8, 2014 — 30 Comments A large percentage of the articles I write on this site are the result of receiving the same sorts of questions over and over again.

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MAY 18, 2014

Both of us attended graduate school at the University of Calgary, studying architecture together. We’re passionate about art and design, both studying fine art at universities in Canada before heading off to architecture school. I try and keep things light and share a thing or two about what I think I know.

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e-architect

JANUARY 29, 2023

Architecture Trends Post Covid-19 workplace of the future HyperloopTT Sustainable Transportation Sustainable School Design Land Re-use and Climate Change New vaulted style of floor cuts concrete usage How Brexit Affects Architects The Right Balance for Sustainable Design Transit-Oriented Development Design RICS Digitalisation of Construction Report (..)

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Part of my job was traveling back and forth to the site for meetings and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” was a huge hit then. In the early 90’s when I first started my firm, much of my work was out of Dallas and required long road trips to attend meetings and site visits. Dar’s music was a marvelous companion on those trips.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 9, 2014

All of the project team will be exposed to learning about the site, which in turn will educate everyone about the city, roads, people movement, scale of the built environment, transportation systems, grain of the city, attractions, cultural centers, political aims, development and so on. ” Your is a possessive word.

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Community Architect

JUNE 9, 2022

My friend and Morgan architecture professor Cristina Murphy who also does teaching stints at Virginia Tech and the Technische Universiteit in Delf t (Netherlands) has tailored her studios around this question. She wrote this guest contribution describing her approach to teaching equity in architecture school.

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Architizer

JULY 4, 2023

Ramirez is a Colombian writer, curator, filmmaker and cultural producer working in the realm of architecture, urban planning and media. He is the co-founder and Managing Director of PLANE–SITE, an agency devoted to the production and dissemination of original content about the built environment.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The School of Architecture at Taliesin has been a pillar both in the architecture world as well as Arizona and Wisconsin where Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna invited architecture students to live and work with them and immerse themselves in ‘organic architecture’.

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