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

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I have almost always worked in small firms – except for that one time when I didn’t, which wasn’t a bad year but it cemented in my mind that my skill set is better suited for a small architectural firm. Here are my Top 5 Reasons to work in a Small Architectural Firm: 1. So right on Bob.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 30, 2013

First thing I learned to do on my very first “job” at an architectural firm Mark Mc Swain Most “City” folding formats are based on whether the P&D/Engineering Office file cabinets are Letter versus Legal sized format. Cam Ahhhhh such joy it brings to see someone still knows the right way to do this.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This could be almost anything within the field of architecture – it doesn’t necessarily stick to one thing. Since I have typically championed the small architectural firm, I wear a lot of hats and can relate to most people who have some role to play. Something a master machine can’t make. Alan Manning Great!

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Architects Tales

APRIL 1, 2019

From the various AIA firm surveys over the years, a consistent pattern has emerged that showed 90% or so of architectural firms are small, with only one or two architects as sole proprietors. On the other hand, the remaining 10% of the firms employ the vast majority of architects working as employees instead of principals. . …

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

One could spend hours thumbing through the renderings of United Design Architects , or UDA, the Tehran and Portland based architecture firm co-founded by Iranian architect Raha Ashrafi. s Royal Institute of British Architects from 2011 to 2013. , both of which seek to redefine the relationship between cities, farms and nature.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 22, 2018

And so I googled, I think I literally googled “Shanghai architecture firms” and applied to the first applied to the first few search results that popped up. I then took a job with the first firm that was willing to apply for a work visa for me. So 2011 through 2010 starting to crawl out of the bad economy.

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