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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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Japanese-American architect Gyo Obata dies aged 99

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The son of two Japanese artists who emigrated to the United States, Obata managed to avoid internment following Pearl Harbor and was educated at Washington University in St Louis – one of the only architecture schools taking Japanese-American students at the time. Obata won a number of awards throughout his life.

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Ingrid Schroder named director of the Architectural Association

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Schroder is currently head of design teaching at the University of Cambridge 's architecture department, where she has taught for more than 20 years. She also directs the university's MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design (MAUD) course, which she established in 2012. Five candidates competed for role.

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Architectural Delineation Competition - KRob 2013 | Life of an.

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It was a big inspiration to me during architecture school. link] This has some really rich student work – drawings and models. link] Bob Borson I have seen it before – didn’t remember the name of it since I haven’t seen it since my early days in college.

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A Love Letter to "Home: A Short History of an Idea," the Book That Defined My Idea of Comfort

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In fact, many of the things Rybczynski learned in architecture school and beyond seemed to directly contradict the concept. If you buy something through a link on the site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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Photo's #frommydesk | Life of an Architect

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December 1st, 2011 “ good times – not taking calls – deadline approaching – music playing “ February 9th, 2012 “ poor Cubebot … wrong place, wrong time “ May 13th, 2012 “This is what I’m doing … what are you doing?”

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Sketch Paper | Life of an Architect

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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.