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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Landscape Architecture Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

He’s an extraordinary educator who founded China’s first landscape architecture program at Peking University in 1997, graduating hundreds of master’s and doctoral degree students who have gone on to teach, practice, and influence design, development, and policy throughout China and the world.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 15, 2016

What About Sketching? 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. Can’t draw? It must be Presentation Skills … right?

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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? What’s the Right sized firm for you?

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Addams family first appeared in a 1938 New Yorker comic by cartoonist Charles Addams, which marked the earliest sketch in a long-running cartoon series depicting the ghoulish family. With the new emphasis on action and drama, the busy and cartoonish set design of the original series was not part of the new aesthetic," she continues.

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He has also received a series of commissions in the Miami Design District in 2018 (in collaboration with SB Architects), years after publishing a book on his alleyway explorations, Tight Urbanism , in 2010. I learned a lot about him while studying at U of O and working with Cava and other local architects.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I could also argue that boiling water is particularly handy for architecture students so they can eat those oh-so-delicious $0.99 I personally feel that the really nice ones can be a little intimidating to sketch in – they seem a little precious to me. I am a pro (or at least now I can look like one).

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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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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! How mean am I? :>)

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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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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

For those in this situation, and even for those who do have an architecture background, here’s my advice: In the summer before starting school, spend a ton of time in the library, and an equal amount of time visiting buildings, sketching, and going to lectures and events. Pay attention to the built environment around you.

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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.

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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

For those in this situation, and even for those who do have an architecture background, here’s my advice: In the summer before starting school, spend a ton of time in the library, and an equal amount of time visiting buildings, sketching, and going to lectures and events. Honestly, just pay attention to the built environment around you.

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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

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. a bus depot.) We both benefited for learning from each other.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

ARRHOV FRICK ARKITEKTKONTOR © Mikael Olsson The office was founded in 2010 in Stockholm by Johan Arrhov (1979) and Henrik Frick (1977). At present, Olsson Lyckefors employs 34 architects, interior designers, students and staff members in Gothenburg and Stockholm. In 2017 Carlos Nieto (1977) became a collaborating partner.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I think through drawing and sketching, for others they might turn towards computer software … I don’t really care. 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! I know I believe it. Alan Manning Great!

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If I ever saw something that an architecture student needed, this is it. As a bonus, even non-architects would like a book like this because it explains the vocabulary that architects use on a daily basis with wonderful sketches that clearly show the subject. B O O K S ! ! ! They are all that good.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 30, 2014

Robbie Darling Bob I am an architecture student, and recently I got to design a small dwelling, which included its own small kitchen. My wife is really anxious for me to move from the discussing and sketching phase into the construction document phase. I’m really interested to see how you approach this! Can’t wait for it.

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e-architect

APRIL 19, 2023

The exhibition brings together renderings, photographs, sketches, studies, models, video, as well as immersive content, to present each project as a considered architectural response to an aspect of Qatar Museums’ program of cultural nation-building. They include: Museum of Islamic Art, architect: I.

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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. I currently TA drawing I for undergrad freshmen and I find myself defending drawing all the time to other students, colleagues and even some former professors. I often reread the posts you have written regarding sketching, drafting, etc.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 2, 2014

Architectural Sketching or. And just so you know, we value your insights so much that we have referred high school/college students to your blog to get a taste of the “Life”, so carry on, Sir! Nix Too much negativity in the world! And I think I agree with John Keiser that people rather read than comment.

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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. Find out more about the jury here. Anna Maria Bordas. Sheila O’Donnell.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Founded in October 2010 by Tjeerd Bloothoofd. Their solutions are the result of a long series of consistent decisions and elaborations: diagrams and matrixes, sketches and artist’s impressions, ground plans and sections, construction models and working drawings.

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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.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A recent studio at Yale School of Architecture had students proposing affordable housing solutions for NYCHA's Washington Houses in East Harlem; the public housing project consists of more than a dozen towers on three superblocks that are the equivalent of seven city blocks, with open space comprising more than 85% of the site.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 23, 2014

Since 2004, BLDG|BLOG has been penned completely by Geoff Manaugh ( I feel a bit weary about my site and I’ve only been doing it since 2010 ) but doesn’t show signs of slowing down. If you are an architect, or a student of architecture, or possibly a person breathing air, you know and love the website ArchDaily.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MAY 30, 2022

Like The Battle for Home , Building for Hope 's text is accompanied by the architect's own sketches, this time depicting places well beyond her native Syria. The same authors, Pankaj Vir Gupta and Christine Mueller of Vir.Mueller Architects, wrote at Architectural Digest last year that it was completed in 1945.)

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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’. It is far from clear what happens inside.In

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