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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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"Architects are too often complicit in gentrification and social cleansing"

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First it was with their remarkable transformation of the Palais de Tokyo in 2002 (expanded in 2014), a stripping out of a classical/art deco exhibition hall to create a raw, haunting, cavernous interior which became Paris's riposte to London's Tate Modern. The floor plates were extended with balconies and the building reclothed.

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Event: CannonDesign Lecture for Excellence in Architecture and Engineering: Thomas Phifer

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Ongoing projects include the TR Warszawa Theatre and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Cine Colombia headquarters in Bogotá, the Indiana. University Eskenazi School of Art & Architecture in Bloomington, and the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project in Lower Manhattan. In 2016, he.

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I’m Nine Years Old – The Teenage Years

Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect – Year’s Two (2011) and Three (2012) I will admit that in year two I fell off the writing pace I had set in year one, but not by much. In 2011 I wrote 159 articles and in 2012 that trend continued … I only wrote 96 articles. My favorite blog post of 2011 is: Do You Want to be an Architect?

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Photo's #frommydesk | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

These photos are in chronological order starting December 1st, 2011 and include all sorts of things. August 10th, 2013 “concept assembly sketch for a modern house I will feature on LoaA” #vegetativeroof. August 23rd, 2013 “and so it begins … #design #sketch #architect” #architecture.

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Sketch Paper | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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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Architectural Delineation Competition - KRob 2013 | Life of an.

Life of an Architect

Just mark your calendar with the following date: Thursday, November 14th 6:00pm at the Dallas Center for Architecture 1909 Woodall Rodgers Frwy, Suite 100 Register for the Awards Presentation and Lecture here. It was a big inspiration to me during architecture school.