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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

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Home / Career / Surviving Architecture School Surviving Architecture School Bob Borson — December 16, 2013 — 49 Comments Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific. What happens when you are actually still in school? The person with the most skills typically wins.

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007: A Survivor’s Guide to Architecture School

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Fall is just around the corner and that means it’s time for students around the country to return to their desk’s at architecture school. While it wasn’t mandatory to do your work up on school property, back in my time, this was true for 99.99% of the people in architecture school.

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

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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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Architectural Studio - 4 Questions | Life of an Architect

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Also, where I spent a ridiculous amount of time building basswood models, most of the students I talk to these days send their digital files to a laser cutter and have the pieces of their model cut for them. Here are a few tips that can help make your experience in architecture studio that much better and more rewarding.

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Memories from the Architectural Studio | Life of an Architect

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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. I had it with me from one design studio to the next design studio up until my spring semester of my 4th year.

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Rule of Halves

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For aspiring architects, the rule is first encountered as students when they enter architectural school and are told that one half of the students in their class will drop out either in the first year or no later than before graduation. As Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, says in his book, ARCHITECT? . … According to the U.S.

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An Electrician's Bag | Life of an Architect

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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., Alex Robert nice tools bag. Awesome bag as well.