Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

” Other than the fact that I am an architect and I have my finger on the pulse of architects savvy enough to be reading my site, I pretty much write down the list I would give my wife and post it here. And for those architecture students who are at school 32 hours a day, this is a sweet back-up power source.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 18, 2013

To date we have seen contents from: Architect Architecture Student Drywall Contractor Interior Designer Photographer Graphic Designer Today we get a look into the bag of freelance designer/ consultant and electrician Lindy Weston (B.Envd., I have 3M in my bag at the moment.

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Life of an Architect

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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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. Following my casual advice is at your own peril.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

far we have Architect Architecture Student Drywall Contractor Interior Designer and today its an architectural photographer. Therefore, anything you read on this site is not a substitute for actually working with me. Talk about hauling around a lot of gear … I think only drummers have it worse.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Underdog Architecture Student What about the way to tear a straight piece off of a roll of trace? (I Therefore, anything you read on this site is not a substitute for actually working with me. This should fit in a 9 x 14.5 envelope or similar legal-size file drawer. Following my casual advice is at your own peril.

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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. Like with school teaching us something new, we have to be ready to let design teach us as well.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 9, 2014

It is extremely complicated and we are using Rhino and Grasshopper (fancy modeling software) to help generate and document the design – I’ll show it on the site here when I have a bit more information to present. The stuff the architecture students are learning in college is whacky. Cool, but whacky.

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Life of an Architect

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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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 19, 2013

I found it in a different studio at the beginning of the semester… Funny how architecture students find that maybe if they took a nap on something that it can be their own. 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

APRIL 30, 2014

There will be a natural evolution to what gets discussed over the next two years, it’s my site and I can talk about whatever I want. Coinciding with this series on my site will be the Sub-Zero and Wolf Kitchen Design Contest, now in its 20 th year. Also, name calling will get you banned from this site. and the world.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I’m a 20 year old architecture student from India and I do believe I’m going through an identity crisis, right in the midst of my submissions too! link] Jonathan Brown It can’ be put into words, the good and the bad, although walking out on the construction site of a project you designed is really incredible.

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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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e-architect

DECEMBER 9, 2022

RIBA Serjeant Award for Excellence in Architectural Drawing. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced the winners of the 2022 President’s Medals during its annual awards for the world’s best architecture student projects. Architecture Awards. RIBA Gold Medal 2010. Location: UK. Stirling Prize.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 15, 2016

I’m not sure that it’s that big a deal nowadays – and it would seem that most graduating architecture students don’t really know how to sketch based on the portfolio’s I’ve seen. 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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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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Deezen

JUNE 25, 2022

In 2010, a study conducted by Professor Barratt and his team at Oxford University concluded that seven physical characteristics of a school can impact the learning process of children by up to 16 per cent. "The population of Tower Hamlets is growing by 15 residents every day. The Haaf Netters Rest by Jack Harding.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It includes housing, educational spaces, and areas for civic engagement made from regenerative materials produced along the site. Commendations in the RIBA Silver Medal category: Nadir Qazim Mahmood (Manchester School of Architecture) for Nirvana. RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards 2016 Winners. Architecture Awards.

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e-architect

JULY 17, 2023

2023 President’s Medal and Awards for Research News, Royal Institute of British Architects Prize, Student design 2023 President’s Medal and Awards for Research Winners 17 July 2023 RIBA announces 2023 President’s Medals Judging Panels The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the judging panels for the 2023 President’s Medals.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If I ever saw something that an architecture student needed, this is it. Since I’ve owned a cell phone for a long time now and never lost it, it makes sense that I should own a Bluetooth padlock that I can UNLOCK with my phone! B O O K S ! ! !

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

She has been distinguished with several international awards, such as the Emerging Voices Award from The Architectural League of New York, and is a key member of this year’s A+Awards jury. The architectural historian Kenneth Frampton described their work as “very close to what I attempted to define in 1983 as Critical Regionalism.”.

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Life of an Architect

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. Do you know the true purpose of an architectural portfolio? .

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Home / Buildings / Deconstruction versus Demolition Deconstruction versus Demolition Bob Borson — November 4, 2013 — 29 Comments Deconstruction is an environmentally friendly alternative to demolition and on the KHouse Modern project , the existing house on site is currently going through the process of being taken apart piece by piece.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 18, 2014

Our hobbies are strictly architecture… and more architecture. Designer : Kasthuri Chakrapani - Chennai, India Bio : I am an architecture student. Therefore, anything you read on this site is not a substitute for actually working with me. Sleep, eat, CAD, repeat #architorture. Designer : Kania P.

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e-architect

JANUARY 25, 2022

Space for 7,000 New Homes Plus Commercial and Community Facilities at 205-acre Site in West Edinburgh. The development consortium which owns more than 200 acres of prime development land in the west of Edinburgh has unveiled an ambitious vision for a significant new neighbourhood to be built on the site. 6 Dec 2021. 27 July 2021.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But as the earlier guides made clear, there is more to the boroughs than the familiar sites found in other guidebooks; and the boroughs are made up of people, not just buildings and landscapes, and it was those people that interested Helmreich the most. It's refreshing to see architecture students tackling affordable housing in creative ways.

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Community Architect

JUNE 9, 2022

Whitney Young, 1968) It is clear that a historically black university (HBCU) such as Morgan State University in Baltimore is trying hard to attract black architecture students and make students aware what role architects have played in segregation and, conversely what role they can play in creating more equity.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MAY 30, 2022

Dates on the building's completion vary by source, with research on my book determining 1945, volume eight of World Architecture 1900-2000: A Critical Mosaic bumping it to 1948, and the authors of Golconde: The Introduction of Modernism in India , first published in 2010 , indicating a substantial completion date of 1942.

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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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