Architecture Chat

JANUARY 9, 2021

Five years of a learning experience The mind of an architecture student is indeed a cauldron filled with fretting emotions, art, thought-provoking ideas, stories, and myriad experiences. Five years spent in an architecture school are nothing less than a roller-coaster that persuades you to find hidden values and varying purposes.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 10, 2023

In 1992 Gene Kohn, Chairman and Founder of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) spoke at my architecture school. I was a 22-year-old architecture student and a born entrepreneur. Below is the talk Gene presented at the EntreArchitect Business Summit for our community of small firm architects.

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Architizer

AUGUST 19, 2022

Browse the Architizer Jobs Board and apply for architecture and design positions at some of the world's best firms. Architecture school is difficult. Students should not face unworkable schedules that force them to sacrifice their sleep and overall health. Competition among the students was fierce.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I can’t tell if I am forgetting all the bad parts about being in an architectural studio because walking around and talking to some of the architecture students sure did charge my batteries quite a bit. I didn’t bring my real camera with me so al of these are taken with my phone.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

So I thought I would put together an architectural job “starter kit” of all the things you should be paying attention to if you’re planning on getting a job at an architectural office. My experience demands that I champion the advantages of working in a small firm, it’s what I know and love.

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Architizer

MARCH 20, 2023

Evelyn Lee is the Head of Workplace Strategy and Innovation at Slack Technologies, founder of Practice of Architecture , and co-host of the podcast, Practice Disrupted. She takes inspiration from her experience in tech and outside of the profession to reimagine practice operations for firms.

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Architizer

APRIL 19, 2023

Evelyn Lee is the Head of Workplace Strategy and Innovation at Slack Technologies, founder of Practice of Architecture , and co-host of the podcast, Practice Disrupted. She takes inspiration from her experience in tech and outside of the profession to reimagine practice operations for firms.

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Deezen

JUNE 29, 2022

Architecture firms should adopt more collaborative leadership styles to address labour grievances in the industry, says co-CEO of the world's biggest architecture studio Andy Cohen, in this exclusive interview. "I Above: Andy Cohen is co-CEO of Gensler. Top: He is based at Gensler's office in downtown LA.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 28, 2014

I’ve been around the architectural block more times than I care to admit at this stage of my career and I have learned a few things along the way. One upside of working many jobs is that you get to experience all sorts of different project types, firm sizes, and management techniques. Why the change of heart?

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

Architects – Getting Your First Job Getting your first job in an architecture school is more about who you are than what you can do. I thought I would put together some basics tips and strategies that might help you find the perfect firm for you. Maybe you shouldn’t be in architecture school … you don’t have what it takes.

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Young Architect

MAY 14, 2022

Studying design from at one of the many great architecture programs is, in my (admittedly, biased) opinion, one of the greatest educations a person could get as well as an amazing industry to work in. Architecture School. Having an architecture license is not a prerequisite to having a successful career in architecture.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

New this season, firms can gain recognition for their entire portfolio of work thanks to the addition of the new Best Firm categories celebrating practices of all sizes, geographies and specializations. Wandile arrived at Andrews University, Michigan, a precocious architecture student with charismatic leadership qualities.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 26, 2015

is a design and manufacturing company specializing in sculpture, architectural features and commercial products Joe McCall – A noted and reputable designer with over 23 AIA award-winning buildings to his credit, there are so many accolades that you can share about Joe that they are too numerous to list.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I can barely tolerate addition and subtraction so sorting through all the financial data my firm has collected and trying to make sense of it was literally like death from a thousand paper cuts. When I was coming out of school, I didn’t think owning a firm or running a business … it literally never crossed my mind.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 11, 2017

Throughout the winter before graduating, I wrote over 100 cover letters and mailed them with my standard one-page resume to every architecture firm in the New York metropolitan area. There were hundreds of architecture students graduating that spring and they were all competing for the same few positions available in the region.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

With a twisted sense of pride, too many architects today accept the small firm stereotype of “starving artist”. Seeds planted in architecture school bloom into a full-on virus as professionals launch their own firms and find their way to small business. Architecture is a profession like law and medicine.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

It isn’t unreasonable to think an intern would be far more knowledgeable than the licensed architect, sitting just a few feet over, in some of the various methods and technologies that architectural firms employ. This includes anyone not registered to practice architecture in a U.S. or are in the process of completing it.

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DesignScape Architects

JUNE 2, 2020

A common misconception, shared by both architectural students and people in other fields, is that architecture is an industry. If architecture were treated as nothing more than a means to make a profit, it would be stripped of all the sensitive design decisions that ultimately change people’s lives.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 27, 2014

I am taking an architecture class at my local community college and the professor is encouraging me to complete their program in addition to my Masters. I am 25, however, and this would keep me in school for significantly longer. I was the welder with a BA in history trying to switch careers to architecture. Arch graduate?

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Back in my early career, the firm I worked for ( which was the earliest incarnation of the firm where I am now a partner ) focused almost exclusively on retail jobs – and we did a lot of them. When I look at this project now, it makes me think of a highly refined architecture school project.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School. An oldie but a goodie —Matthew Frederick had what has now become the architecture student’s bible published back in 2007, yet surprisingly, it is still as relevant today as it was then. By Matthew Frederick. Click here to sign up for our Jobs Newsletter.

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Architects Tales

APRIL 1, 2019

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. Finally, firm formation may be dropping as well. As Roger K.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 8, 2015

With a twisted sense of pride, too many architects today accept the small firm stereotype of “starving artist”. Seeds planted in architecture school bloom into a full-on virus as professionals launch their own firms and find their way to small business. Architecture is a profession like law and medicine.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

This past December I was invited to speak at AIAS Forum 2013; the American Institute of Architecture Students national convention. While we waited for the airports to open, I had the opportunity to speak in length with many of the architecture students in attendance. That first summer was not encouraging. It worked.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

For me personally, juggling architecture school and getting through the Architect Registration Exam, while making a living has been my biggest hurdle in becoming an architect. During college I worked for a firm for only 6 months, before I threw up my hands and quit. The Worst Job I Ever Had – and the Most Important.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

For me personally, juggling architecture school and getting through the Architect Registration Exam, while making a living has been my biggest hurdle in becoming an architect. During college I worked for a firm for only 6 months, before I threw up my hands and quit. The Worst Job I Ever Had – and the Most Important.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 12, 2014

I had many interesting conversations with architecture students while I was in Chicago. Others wanted to know about how to start their own firms. Our architectural educations should be viewed more as personal improvement, building our skills and reinforcing our knowledge, and less as a ticket to professional exclusivity.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2017

If you are an architectural student – or a young architecture school graduate – Architectural Portfolios are extremely important. Resumes are important, they can help you get an interview, but few people coming out of architecture school will ever get hired based on their zippy resume.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 30, 2016

This month, the #ArchiTalks topic is “Back to School”, so I am encouraging my fellow small firm architects to go back to school themselves and learn what they need to know to find the work they want and live a life they’ll love. Back to School. summer is almost over and the kids are heading back to school.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

They look like 1/4″ At my firm we typically start at 1/16″ and work up to 1/8″, usually do not go above unless its working out a detail or a small detailed area. Travel sketchers and architecture students would all enjoy better success if they knew, say how to pull the pencil to keep an even lineweight.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Recently things are changing for architecture students in the United States. Though, today, many schools do not enforce these rules, the AIAS and current generations of architecture students are taking on the responsibility to educate their peers and are advocating against the unhealthy and unsafe practice of the legendary all-nighter.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 16, 2017

I participated in a number of architectural competitions, some of which were rewarded. Designer : Andrei Olkoski (Novo Hamburgo, Brazil) Bio : I am an architecture student, I’m in the 5th semester and I’ve been working with custom furniture for twelve years.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

The work involved in setting up your design firm can be overwhelming and 99% of it was never taught to you in school. I once had a phone call with an architecture student asking for advice. There are infinite ways of “being an architect” and each firm runs its own way. Now start on the right foot.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The education of an architect intentionally and systematically breaks down the creative process “baggage” and untrained habits of their students, and then starts the process of rebuilding that process in a non-stigmatized environment. Like with school teaching us something new, we have to be ready to let design teach us as well.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

I just walked into the building’s lobby during my summer vacation and asked the elevator operator to take me to [Zeckendorf’s firm] Webb & Knapp – totally different times [circa 1954], no security. I did not say I was an architecture student, which I certainly was not. I was just a kid. You go, RAMSA!

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Life of an Architect

MAY 18, 2014

Louis, Missouri, USA Bio : Architectural designer/coffee snob working on completing my license (5 down, 2 to go). Designer : Natalie Carran – Iowa, USA Bio : I practice in a small service based firm and am looking to have a little fun designing this playhouse for cats… I mean children…children. Designer : Kania P.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Art Vandelay “Most firms will cover some or all costs associated with exams and initial license” None of the half dozen firms in which I have worked with during the last 7 years have. I believe the firm paying for your licensing is a pre-2008 standard and is now considered overhead as opposed to an investment.

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