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Architecture School in a Box

30X40 Design Workshop

Before I enrolled in architecture school in the late summer of 1991 (has it been 32 years?), As architecture schools greet new students this fall, I thought it would be fun to revisit that list of “must-haves” after having practiced architecture for 30 years. What’s stood the test of time in my practice?

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Sketch to Finished Floor Plan

30X40 Design Workshop

Would you be surprised to learn that most architects aren't taught how to assemble a set of construction drawings in architecture school? Most graduate architects learn this from their first employer during their mandatory internship. Concept Sketch. I certainly was. Walls, Doors, + Windows.

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Architectural Sketching [or How to Sketch like Bob] | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? This doesn’t mean that everyone who graduated in my era could sketch – far from it. What it means is that we learned how to think and communicate our ideas slightly different from the product of today’s architecture programs.

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Is This the Most Beautiful Architecture School Project Ever Designed?

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Many of the details of her proposal — including the striking wallpaper designs — are inspired by Morris’s own sketches and textile designs. In terms of architectural inspirations, the project possesses a resemblance to Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Cemetery , a moving project defined by pristine concrete forms and reflecting pools.

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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? Home / Career / Surviving Architecture School Surviving Architecture School Bob Borson — December 16, 2013 — 49 Comments Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific.

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Man versus Machine – Architectural Sketch Series

Life of an Architect

Primarily among these activities is that I like to sketch out my ideas rather than relegating it to a computer program. I am aware that this is a simplified response to what is actually a much longer and ( at least to architects) possibly more interesting conversation.

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Sketch Paper | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? Home / Heard around the architectural studio / heard around the architectural studio #010 I can’t find any sketch paper. newyoker tracing paper is a tool for recording and most importantly refining architectural ideas.