Life of an Architect

APRIL 22, 2018

I have also been taking part in a handful of architecture school jury panels lately. I am a little vain as a designer but not oblivious to the fact that I recognize that there were one or two other classmates of mine that have turned out to be the proverbial rockstar designer.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

One of the things having a web site like mine affords you is a peek behind the curtain – curtains in just about every nook and cranny of the planet. One of the most common themes of these emails is that architecture school is nothing like working in the real world.

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Life of an Architect

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. But what is the point of designing these incredibly odd and silly projects?

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Having grown up in suburban Chicago and been in architecture school in Kansas at the time, I visited the room on trips back home, seeing it fairly regularly after moving back to Chicago in 1997. That year, Ando completed his second Chicago commission, a house on Wrightwood in Lincoln Park for Fred Eychaner and his then partner Ken Lee.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2019

I’m currently in Chicago celebrating the 50th birthday of a good friend of mine. In fact, there are four of us here and we all know each other from our time together from the University of Texas School of Architecture.

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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. I remember in the past when people older than myself would warn me that the older you get, the faster time seems to go.

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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. 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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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.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

Simply based on my inbox, there is a new batch of bright and shiny new future architects about to graduate and they are on the hunt for their future … hopefully in an office like mine. Architects – Getting Your First Job Getting your first job in an architecture school is more about who you are than what you can do.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2022

In mine as well. There's been nothing since then, I mean, architecture schools have no pedagogy. Where the developer is, is not about where architecture could be. My generation, that is those in that show, never quite believed in those guys as a didactic, intellectual or conceptual force.

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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. Obviously ( obviously to me that is) this was just the beginning of my career … just how many more projects of mine would make it into the newspaper? It must be a lot. It isn’t.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

Surviving Architectural School Despite the urban legends that you’ve heard about that person who stayed awake for 6 straight days to finish his project, Architecture school is terrific. Here are a few tips that can help make your experience in architecture studio that much better and more rewarding.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 14, 2019

From the very beginning, I made it an objective of mine to respond to every comment and email I received … no matter what. One of the most frequent questions I get through the contact form on the site is from students in college who are currently struggling in school.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It was my first year in architecture school at UH, and it was in the Architecture History class from Prof. For an out of the way corner of an out of the way state, NW Arkansas packs quite an architectural punch. Each time we go home to Michigan, we make a pilgrimage to drive by this house… still love it.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 14, 2019

From the very beginning, I made it an objective of mine to respond to every comment and email I received … no matter what. One of the most frequent questions I get through the contact form on the site is from students in college who are currently struggling in school.

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Architects Tales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Backing up a bit, when I graduated from architecture school, I returned to Wisconsin to look for a job with an architectural firm to continue my apprenticeship. An Attorney Next. My path to become a licensed attorney had a zig-zag trajectory – often nudged in unexpected directions by other people.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 4, 2014

I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and this event was most likely going to be filled with ex-professors and old classmates of mine. As sweet as it is, it is not mine. While I don’t suffer from stage fright, I do suffer from “looking like an idiot” fright. Congrats on the MC.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 22, 2018

I ended up applying to half architecture schools and then half liberal arts schools because part of me thought that I might want it to be like a comp lit major, but I ended up only getting into the architecture school. I loved architectural school, but I also know there’s times where you hate it.

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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. The Lantern House -. Bamgbopa Folarin can some1 in Nigeria also participate?…well, link] Cory W.

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SW Oregon Architect

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA (photo by Codera23, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) An earlier blog entry of mine, “ Genealogy of Influence ,” promised a series of posts about the architects and theorists who influenced my architectural world view. This is the latest post in the series. As I write this it is Super Bowl Sunday.

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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. But that’s not really the entire story is it?

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

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

It also helps me know which rolls of trace paper in the office are mine. I often wonder how much sketching gets used when you reach the “real world” My architecture school puts very heavy emphasis on learning sketching and hand drawing skills. Pingback: Its more than a 10 Jess Hopkin Love this post.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Cheers, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Life in General , Observations , Travel a day in the life , about bob , Architecture School , bob borson , Travel , traveling Graphic Standards heard around the. Learning is certainly a great by-product of the experience, but so is growing up. i think i can draw well.

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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. I did mine and everyone, including the teacher, thought my parents did it. link] Bob Borson Thanks Kerry.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 19, 2018

I am not bad at math and architecture as we know, it’s not just about. I loved architecture school and never looked back. I was like, okay, well both of those sound pretty awesome, but I hadn’t really considered that. LePage: 06:49 . A couple of years?

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EntreArchitect

JULY 24, 2018

And I said, well, you know, when I went to sleep at night, really my whole life, I’ve thought about how a chair gets made or a roof gets put on, you know, when I was 16 I was thinking this way, said, okay, so I’ll go to architecture school. And they all believed it.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 30, 2014

Just did a lab in architecture school haha, wouldn’t understood this in the slightest a week ago, but now i totally get it, funny how you can apply education to real life just george funny how you can apply real life experience to education…yes? Hopefully I won’t find out if your scenario is typical or not.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Mine is based on the law in many of the states I carry an architectural license. lugray I believe this is also the case in Denmark – graduate from architecture school = being an architect. Now, the reality of your argument is based on what you have done. We should consider rolling in the AREs to coursework.

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Architizer

JULY 31, 2024

He achieves this, he says, through paying attention to classical principles such as proportion, harmony and beauty — ideals that Vitruvius knew well but that modern architecture has not only overlooked but, in Pennoyer’s account, actively suppressed. “So So I graduated from college in 1981, architecture school in 1984.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Brandon Tyler Carr I’m still in Architecture School, so this post will pretty much broaden my arena for studio. Being Asian parents they just couldn’t comprehend. 4) Fenix TX – Self Title - –Who doesn’t love some early 2000′s pop punk to boost a good mood?

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 9, 2014

Democratic Work Ethics Some firms, mine included will tend to have an open space office. Items such as contracts, budgets and other are also looked after by senior members of the project team or people in the office that specialized in a particular area. ” Your is a possessive word.

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