Life of an Architect

JULY 19, 2014

I am not at all unique in my academic knowledge or skill set; by the end of the second year of curriculum, every student in the UT School of Architecture has experience in Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper, Photoshop, Illustrator, and the basics of construction and building codes.

Architecture 101

Architecture Small Firm Firms Students 101

Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

When I look at this project now, it makes me think of a highly refined architecture school project. The quality of contractor we typically were able to work with was extremely high. There are times when I think that working on these sorts of projects when I was younger didn’t do me any favors. It must be a lot.

Project 111

Project Design Glass Contractor 111

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. Always look for the positive architectrunnerguy Amazingly during my whole 5 years of architectural school (Va. but i learned a lot during mine and others’ crits over the years.

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Architect Architecture Students Mining 106

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. The end user of our work is the contractor.

Architect 111

Architect Architecture Firms IT 111

Life of an Architect

JUNE 22, 2014

thinking through sketching Hashtags used: #architectural #sketch #detail #whatanarchitectdoes. a different sort of teaching sketch … this one’s for the contractor Hashtags used: #sketch. Sharp Bob, As a recent graduate of architecture school – I’m proud to call myself an avid sketch artist.

Sketching 100

Sketching Architect Events Concept 100

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. Mine deserved a ribbon [link] Bridget Willard HA!

IT 111

IT Art Architect Architecture 111

Life of an Architect

MARCH 30, 2014

While it might take several architects to move these panels into place ( see the second to last bullet point ), normally just two regular contractors can move them around just fine. You know how you can tell these guys are contractors? I tell the contractors and move on. I’m excited to continue to follow the project!

Structure 105

Structure Building Architect Construction 105