A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

An Alphabet of Architectural Models Edited by Teresa Frankhänel, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Simona Valeriani, Matthew Wells Merrell , October 2021 Flexicover | 6-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches | 128 pages | 88 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781858946979 | $37.95 Teresa Fankhänel is a Curator at the Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität, Munich.

Architecture 96

Architecture Education Materials Concept 96

Architizer

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It incubates in architecture school, spreads through architecture companies and slowly infects your entire life. Straight out of architecture school, we’re conditioned to believe it’s better to work for peanuts at a Starchitecture firm than to find a role that will help us pay off our student loans. Because it is.

Architect 103

Architect Consulting Industrial Real Estate 103

EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I just need to tack up my shingle, design great buildings and clients will come knocking. Maybe… but whether clients come knocking or not, its not so simple to keep them knocking. Jim Horan, author of The One Page Business Plan series of books says, “The greatest value in creating a business plan is not the final document.

Architecture School 40

Architecture School Small Firm Client Clients 40

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. Building with Structural. oh well, it was drafted well.

Architect 106

Architect Architecture Students Mining 106

Architizer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This informative and well-illustrated children’s book written by Joe Rhatigan and illustrated by Jamie Tejido, outlines what an architect does and introduces children to some of the world’s most famous landmark buildings alongside architectural terms and fun facts. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School.

Architecture School 97

Architecture School Glass Students Sketching 97

Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

One thing we really work on is trying to get our interns working on something that has value, things that contribute to the office in a positive manner, and something that has value to them when they return to school. We had college architectural interns make this model – they are in their model-making prime!

Architect 105

Architect Architecture Client Clients 105

Architizer

JUNE 9, 2023

The end of the Pinochet regime was an important moment for architecture in Chile, leading to a boom in architecture schools and a broader curriculum. With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs.

Architecture Firm 136

Architecture Firm Firms Architecture Residential 136

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.

Client 52

Client Clients Inspiration Home 52

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.

Education 52

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

You need to know and I strongly recommend that you pick up a copy of ‘ Architectural Graphics ‘ by Francis D.K. Ching’s book (along with my studio professors) taught me how to show profile lines – their use defines the look of my sketches as well as a generation of other architects. Whats your guess.

Sketching 111

Sketching Architect Architecture Technique 111

Young Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Drawn from a multi-million-dollar firm's strategies, this course offers a streamlined approach to building a successful, sustainable business in architecture. It's essential for any architecture school to have a hub for books and learning materials, and we're proud to fill that gap with our new addition.

Architect 89

Architect Contract Architecture Firm Firms 89

30X40 Design Workshop

APRIL 14, 2022

Lateral thinking 13:36 Designing houses + interiors without a license 14:29 Know this… 15:26 Solving problems vs. Telling Stories 16:40 What clients buy from architects 17:16 I’m (insert age) is it too late to become an architect? 18:25 The challenge of going to school later in life 19:38 What skills will prepare me for architecture school?

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Sketching Architect Architecture School Client 52

EntreArchitect

MAY 11, 2015

Eric has authored several books on architecture, his most recent is entitled, Architect and Entrepreneur: A Field Guide to Building, Branding, and Marketing Your Startup Design Business , which expands on his thoughts below and other topics related to contemporary practice. There won’t be one. Use your ‘brand’ to tell your story.

Client 52

Client Clients Small Firm Sketching 52

Architecture Here and There

MARCH 29, 2022

the first hero of the classical revival, who founded and presided for many years over the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, and whose pathbreaking 1959 book on modern architecture taught many that classical architecture was not dead. The Reed award was named for the arch-classicist Henry Hope Reed Jr.,

Client 59

Client Clients Architecture School Modern 59

Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

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. Following my casual advice is at your own peril.

Architecture 111

Architecture Sketching Students Events 111

Deezen

MAY 10, 2022

There's been nothing since then, I mean, architecture schools have no pedagogy. The reason, I think, is because the client has become a developer. Where the developer is, is not about where architecture could be. Mark wrote a terrific book on deconstruction. Oh, I would put [Alison and Peter] Smithson in for five.

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Deconstruction Architect Developer Development 130

Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Secondly, although I’m not an architect, I love buildings and what turned me on to buildings more than anything else was the books in the school library. For me, I think I am torn between the British Art Muesum at Yale by Louis Kahn or the Rare Book Library by SOM again at Yale. So simple yet so complex.

Building 98

Building Architect IT Mining 98

Young Architect

APRIL 20, 2022

Think: Business of Architecture. The moment a client signs that contract, you now have a project. especially if your office or friends already own the books. I say read something enjoyable, something your interested in, or even my easy to read self-help book about the ARE’s. Project Management Exam (PjM).

Contract 88

Contract Schematic Design Management Construction 88

Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

You will get to do just about everything sooner rather than later – attend client meetings, contribute to the design, prepare construction drawings, organize and process bidding and negotiating information, and go to job sites. And no, school teaches you zero about being an architect. it teaches you to solve problems. Ann Agreed.

Small Firm 109

Small Firm Architect Firms Architecture 109

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.

Architecture School 86

Architecture School Firms Architect Technology 86

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. maybe there is, maybe the client wants or needs that!

IT 111

IT Art Architect Architecture 111

Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 2, 2013

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.

Sketching 63

Sketching Architect IT Architecture School 63

Life of an Architect

JUNE 22, 2014

Sharp Bob, As a recent graduate of architecture school – I’m proud to call myself an avid sketch artist. I constantly find myself sketching just to understand ideas, forms, and various concepts and my firm looks to me a lot to prepare and execute sketch renderings for clients and projects. link] Cory W.

Sketching 101

Sketching Architect Events Concept 101

Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Ugly’s reference book. Cheers, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Bags , Materials and Products Materials , Products Surviving Architecture School Christmas Cards from Famous. Experienced tradesmen and novices alike reference this guide. How many #12 wires can fit in 1 inch conduit?

Architect 86

Architect Contractor Site Materials 86

Life of an Architect

MAY 4, 2014

The other goal I had for myself was that I wanted to have a project that I had designed make it in to an architectural history book – now that’s a lofty goal. Remember, this is the site of a regular guy who hasn’t made it into the architectural history books … or bought a jet ski.

Architect 109

Architect Site Mining Structural Engineering 109

EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It is a place to start until you build a project volume or client base to get more projects and hire staff. You graduated from Architecture school. Shannon was an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois where he taught Professional Practice and helped the program earn NAAB accreditation.

Architect 52

Architect Firms Professional Services Small Firm 52

Young Architect

MAY 22, 2022

An architecture career is really about providing a service of creating a functional environment for clients with a variety of needs and wants. It’s the point of architecture school and the licensing process. My passion for this idea has forced me to explore all over the globe, learning about people and their environments.

Architecture 52

Architecture Environment Architecture School Architect 52

Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Cheers Subscribe by Email Enter your Email Address Delivered by FeedBurner Trending on Life of an Architect Recommended Stuff for Architects Recommended Books for Architects My name is Bob Borson and this is my site. October 18th, 2012 “so what’s the architects preferred consumption sequence with these M&M’s?

Sketching 99

Sketching Architect IT Site 99

Deezen

JULY 20, 2022

Course: Unit 01 Alternative Arrangements , BSc Architectural Studies. This project stems from the book Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich. The unit delves into the abstract concept of territory and its implications on claims to space in relation to the live client, the community within Treherbert in the South Wales Valleys.

Project 98

Project Students Architecture Cities 98

Life of an Architect

APRIL 13, 2014

Home / Life in General / Motivation – and why it’s important Motivation – and why it’s important Bob Borson — April 14, 2014 — 27 Comments It’s Sunday morning, it’s raining outside, I’m really tired, and the consensus around the house is to lay about, read books and watch television.

IT 102

IT Architect Diagram Events 102

Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

For the purposes of today’s article, I am going to assume that all architectural drawings are correct and serve their purpose of conveying intent, scope and quantity. When I graduated from architecture school in 199[mumble-mumble], computers were not that prevalent. Websites and books especially.

Architect 111

Architect Architecture Firms IT 111

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. It becomes easier to tell the client “No, that’s crap and I’m not designing it that way!”

Architect 112

Architect Education Architecture Students 112

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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Architect Architecture Architecture Student Architecture School 63

Architecture Quote

JULY 13, 2020

There will be a lot of books. If you manage to convince your significant other to join you on a trip to the beach, you will need a book to relax with. Strictly architecture content of course. So are any other architecture-related publications from the last 5 centuries. And anything else architecture related.

Architect 52

Architect Sketching Zoning Home 52

Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I thought I would pull some out and share them to show just how different things were back in 1990 - No internet … Research meant going to an actual library and sorting through the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal system so you could pull out books. No email … you wrote letters. Can you imagine?!? i think i can draw well.

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Architecture Student Students Architect Architecture 84

Landscape Architecture Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It’s home to the school’s College of Engineering , architecture school, performing arts school, and several residence halls. Client University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The North Campus is cloistered and suburban, separated from the main Central Campus by a mile-plus and the Huron River. Project Credits.

Landscape 78

Landscape Students Engineering Engineering 78

EntreArchitect

JULY 24, 2018

His latest book, A Home called New England with Steve Colepepper was just published just this past November. And so back then, you know, the bachelor of architecture degree was it, that was the professional degree and the master’s was for teaching people. Probably one third a not for profit and have that one third.

Architecture 52

Architecture Architect Small Firm Firms 52