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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DECEMBER 28, 2014

Number 2 Your Projects from Architecture School are Silly September 4, 2014 Projects in architectural school tend to be somewhat outrageous – designing something to exist on the dark side of the moon isn’t all that unlikely. Blog Career Construction Design Do you want to be an Architect?

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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. Which would explain why I’m at this blog. a bus depot.) Probably too much so.

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Architizer

AUGUST 7, 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. Model making has always been a cornerstone of architectural practice, serving as a tangible representation of our visions and designs. The Lazy Way?

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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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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 27, 2014

Love the blog, Jordan Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:03 PM Hi Bruce, I can’t speak to the specifics as to whether or not welding is a good segue into architecture but I would think it has helped you with some three-dimensional thinking skills – and those are the hardest to develop in my opinion. Hopefully this helps in some way.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 23, 2014

Special thanks to Bob for opening up his blog to the interns. My name is John Charbonneau and I am a second year graduate student at the University of Texas Tech. I received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture in 2013. Career a day in the life architects office Architecture School career'

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 26, 2015

I’m Caitlin and I’m a fourth year student at Drexel University. I’m currently enrolled in the 2 + 4 Bachelor of Architecture Program and working full-time at an architecture firm. I have a Bachelor’s degree in Filmmaking specialising in Cinematography. I am also an enthusiastic reader of your blog!

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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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A4 Architects

MAY 11, 2022

Perhaps it is because I have frequently been invited to serve on design juried in the past that I have has the opportunity to see the students present their designs and philosophies publicly. For whatever reason we have just more frequently found a good fit with many students coming out of this program.

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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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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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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 11, 2020

At one point or another, every architecture student or graduate has a portfolio of their work that they have agonized over creating. At one point or another, every architecture student or graduate has a portfolio of their work that they have agonized over creating. What sort of information do I put in them?

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The Aspiring Architect

JULY 23, 2017

You may remember back in April that I asked for your help in voting for my blog, The Aspiring Architect, to win the 2017 JDR Blogger Award for Best Architecture Blog. if they are in school OR to help cover the costs of 1 ARE if they are testing. The Winner will also be listed on The Aspiring Architect Blog.

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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. It Took a Village. My boss was a difficult man.

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The Aspiring Architect

JANUARY 15, 2018

I thought time went by fast in architecture school, but geez, when you start working and time becomes relative to which project you were working on versus what month it was, time starts going by much faster. Blog more !!! Schedule my time to make sure I blog and 3. They are so right. Write a book. Break Routines.

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Architects Tales

APRIL 1, 2019

25 for the blog, architects-tales.com, Copyright 2019 by Dale R. 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. As Roger K.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I say “unhealthy” because I don’t really want to be doing it at all and I didn’t go to architecture school to run a business, but here I am. Today was the 22nd installment of #ArchiTalks – a blogging event with other architects where I provide a word or concept and let them interpret it however they want.

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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

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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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

5 Tips for Finding Best Architecture Graduate School. This fantastic Guest blog post about: How to Find the Best Architecture Graduate School was written by Architect John Maternoski. Or you’ve been out of school and working for a while. For me, Guide to Architecture Schools was worth its weight in gold.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

All my Professors, fellow students, former employers and coworkers, family members, librarians, neighbors, long-time family friends, and even the friends I made who worked at the art supply store. In his world, I was just a cheap architecture student day laborer. It Took a Village. My boss was a difficult man.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 9, 2021

I believe architectural education needs to train architects to recognize and harness our innate desire to create. Architecture school need to teach architects how to better listen, communicate, as well as design. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years. Its silly to say “Change.”

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

When I decided to select “My First Project” as a topic for this month’s ArchiTalks topic, I knew instantly which project I would choose to focus on – not because it’s so good, but because I had all sorts of attachments that I could refer to (which is an important consideration when writing an architectural blog).

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Seeds planted in architecture school bloom into a full-on virus as professionals launch their own firms and find their way to small business. As I entered architecture school, it happened too quickly. Architecture is not about the money. Go Back to School. No More Starving Artist. Does that sound familiar?

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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. Be included.

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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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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

5 Tips for Finding Best Architecture Graduate School. This fantastic Guest blog post about: Finding the Best Architecture Graduate Program for YOU was written by Architect John Maternoski. Or you’ve been out of school and working for a while. For me, Guide to Architecture Schools was worth its weight in gold.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 18, 2013

To date we have seen contents from: Architect Architecture Student Drywall Contractor Interior Designer Photographer Graphic Designer Today we get a look into the bag of freelance designer/ consultant and electrician Lindy Weston (B.Envd., Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' Your Email Address.

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Architecture Here and There

APRIL 3, 2022

I replied to my correspondents eagerly, happy to have found a co-conspirator who believed a century ago what I have maintained for 30 years in my Providence Journal columns and my blog. ’ ” It is said that design and architectural schools’ first job is to purge students of their instinct for beauty.

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Shades of Grey

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Although it's not quite fair to compare this to the output of computer literate students of recent years. Twenty years later (when I had actually read Venturi and seen the woeful influence of his polemics on South African architecture) I came out strongly against the Post Modern fashion that had swept through architecture schools.

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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. Ebola is one such pathogen — not something students want to be near on any regular basis.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Not knowing anything other than I should try to get a job in an architectural office, I got whatever job I could. Read Architectural Interns to gain some unique insight into how an architecture student can rise to the top of a pile of resumes and get that coveted architectural intern position. Your Email Address.

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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. My answer to those students, as well as to anyone else concerned with this very volatile issue?

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 11, 2017

There were hundreds of architecture students graduating that spring and they were all competing for the same few positions available in the region. Every summer since my senior year in high school I worked on construction sites, learning the trade up close and studying the psychology of the architect/contractor relationship.

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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 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 had it with me from one design studio to the next design studio up until my spring semester of my 4th year.

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