Portland Architecture

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

And with a succession of writing assignments following a slow pandemic, my posts to this blog have been too seldom lately. DOUG MINARIK: Touring hill towns in Greece was where I realized architecture was the right career choice, something clicked, architecture was much more than drafting plans for a house.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 14, 2019

On January 14th, 2010 my life was irrevocably changed, mostly for the better, when I decided to start a blog site and start talking about what it meant to be, and work with, an architect. During the first year, most of my time was spent learning new skills, preparing graphics and writing blog posts.

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Archmark

APRIL 6, 2023

To help save you time, we will help you choose the best social media platforms for your architecture firm, and show you how to use them for networking, brand awareness, and attracting clients. However, many architecture firms are using social media to successfully increase their online visibility and help attract clients.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 29, 2022

Stefanos Polyzoides, dean of Notre Dame’s famous classicist architecture school and chairman of this year’s prize jury, had this to say: Rob Krier’s built work demonstrates a mastery of fine art, design and construction. Even if they do accept it, I will write an expanded treatment of the matter for this blog.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 9, 2021

This is because we are on the edge of a complete flip in how every service industry functions, including medicine, law, and architecture. Every potential client who architects serve under 40 has created a software derived sketch. Take those tools and multiply their capacities by 1,000 in the coming decades, and architecture changes.

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A Better Built Environment

MARCH 1, 2021

What are the lessons I have learned from starting a firm, working for other people, and serving residential clients over the past 10 years? What are my design values and how can I attract clients that share these values? This then allows me to better serve the clients I work with. Fixed-fees address many of these issues.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 14, 2019

On January 14th, 2010 my life was irrevocably changed, mostly for the better, when I decided to start a blog site and start talking about what it meant to be, and work with, an architect. During the first year, most of my time was spent learning new skills, preparing graphics and writing blog posts.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Not exclusively, of course; but before this blog transitioned to its current weekly format, one of the thematic days of the week was appropriately devoted to monographs: Monograph Monday.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 30, 2016

This post is my contribution to an international blog series called #ArchiTalks. 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. Who are you?

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

One of the most common themes of these emails is that architecture school is nothing like working in the real world. My parents thought I should go into a different major, but I really wanted to be an architect, so I went to architecture school. I was still in architecture school as everyone else graduated.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In a few short years, I evolved from being a junior architecture staff working for everyone else to a licensed architect with interns and junior staff suddenly reporting to me. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients. What if you viewed your junior staff as one day they might be your future client? That’s a scary thought.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

This week, I am sharing blogging duties with a friend and active supporter of Entrepreneur Architect. He is the founder of Young Architect, a blog featuring articles about design, the architecture registration exam , entrepreneurship, and his journey as a young architect. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 11, 2022

Here is the 42nd installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 27, 2014

It reads: The complimentary advice provided on ‘Life of an Architect’ is based on an abbreviated examination of the minimal facts given, not the typical extensive (and sometimes exhaustive) analysis I conduct when working with my clients. Therefore, anything you read on this site is not a substitute for actually working with me.

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Architizer

JULY 23, 2024

Inspired by her global experiences, she shares captivating insights into the world’s most extraordinary cities and buildings and provides travel tips on her blog, The Travel Album. Dear architecture students, this one’s for you! However, you quickly learn that architecture is highly collaborative in the professional world.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 11, 2015

The encouraging footnote to that figure is that, of the businesses that start with a client on day one, the failure rate drops to just 2 out of every 10. It’s going to take time to fill your boards with work, to build a client base, and a referral network of trusted contacts. There won’t be one. Lesson 4 – Set Goals.

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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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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 2, 2013

link] stefano It’s important to talk about the things for undestanding and this is what blogs are for. If you can’t find any sketch paper, sandwich wrap paper does it not that bad too, i used this during my studies because it was a third of the price. This one is a perfect example. Following my casual advice is at your own peril.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 28, 2019

Welcome to “The Fun Show” [Note: If you are reading this via email, you will have to click here to access the on-site audio player] Just like the occasional blog post, the podcast (and blog post) today will be a “life” day because we are talking about, well, whatever we want to a certain extent.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I want to go to architecture school but I don’t really enjoy making models–the process is quite frustrating for me… should all aspiring architects be passionate about model making? We had college architectural interns make this model – they are in their model-making prime! And this is a really great blog.:)

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 17, 2022

The new federal facility is located on the campus of Kansas State University, which happens to be my alma mater, though it is at a bit of a remove from the main campus that I traversed in architecture school decades ago.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 19, 2014

The general consensus from the feedback on that article was that I was wasn’t wrong … I would like to add a few more chapters to the topic of architectural interns and demonstrate that being an architectural intern doesn’t always have to be a mostly empty experience of model building and material library organizing.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 27, 2014

Home / Memories from Studio / Memories from Studio People who didn’t attend architectural school don’t understand juries. I personally looked at it as character building and preparing us for that bad client. I also witnessed a couple of bad clients, too. Love your blog. Building with Structural.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Writing this #frommydesk, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Blog , Observations , Office instagram , photography , TxA An American in London The Best Things about my. I tell people all the time that I am a better photographer now as a result of all the practice I’ve put in since starting the blog.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 22, 2014

Home / Blog / #ArchiSketch #ArchiSketch Bob Borson — June 23, 2014 — 22 Comments As an architect, I tend to communicate through sketching – which is starting to make me a bit of a relic. Sharp Bob, As a recent graduate of architecture school – I’m proud to call myself an avid sketch artist.

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A Better Built Environment

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

It was rarely heard in architectural school or during design studio critiques. when architecture reached modern times, the very word beauty became taboo. I always advise the clients I work with to go all-electric on their custom homes and ADUs making all of our projects net-zero energy ready. Probably not.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

When I first started architecture school as a freshman in college, I didn’t have the focus or maturity I needed to tackle the curriculum and I ended up having a serious identity crisis when I was 19 years old. Deciding to write this blog has in many ways become a watershed moment for me in my career.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 12, 2014

I had many interesting conversations with architecture students while I was in Chicago. It was very interesting that many of them had similar questions to those I receive every day from the licensed architects who follow this blog. We have businesses to build, clients to serve and families to feed. We are taught to see.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

Now that I’ve been at this “architect” thing for a little while, I can look back at my sketches, all the way back to my time in school, and see how my sketch technique has evolved and how that technique has shaped my architectural solutions. Tej Kanitkar Hi, Mr. Borson, first off, longtime reader and fan of your blog.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 25, 2021

After getting into architecture school, one of the first things you learn is that the profession requires a lot of sacrifices and many years in order to reach success. If this strategy is widely recommended for conquering other disciplines, why would architecture be an exception? Sacrifice and Patience.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Fast forward a few years – the college process is now complete and architectural schools are churning out extremely creative graduates, ready to take on the design world … except few graduates will actually get to work on “BIG IDEA” design projects. Which would explain why I’m at this blog.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Architectural schools are often staffed with educators who are ill at ease actually practicing in the “real world”. They find refuge in academia with its impressionable young students eager to learn what they have to say (since their prospective clients were not interested).

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It was a big inspiration to me during architecture school. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' 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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EntreArchitect

MARCH 24, 2013

I tell clients that we could design a successful project with nothing more than a scope of work and site plan. This is true, but it is only after listening to our clients hopes, needs and dreams that we can take each project to its pinnacle. The quickest way to an unhappy client is to design a project beyond their budget.

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The Aspiring Architect

APRIL 25, 2019

For example, during my 4 th year of architecture school, I was the VP of Communications for my sorority. People play a massive role in your career – by being mentors, clients, consultants, teammates, advocates, friends – devote some serious time to making connections.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 13, 2014

I am frequently asked to tell the story behind how this blog got started and why I continue to write. … 600 blog posts?!?” finals time at architecture school frequently gets overwhelming and i felt like giving up on everything. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' thanks bob.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 19, 2013

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 try and keep things light and share a thing or two about what I think I know. Following my casual advice is at your own peril.

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