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Architectural Sketching [or How to Sketch like Bob] | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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Man versus Machine – Architectural Sketch Series

Life of an Architect

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. For grins, I thought I would use the following example … laying out tile patterns.

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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

Life of an Architect

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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CJ Hendry transforms a defunct East London church into a giant ‘snow globe’

The Spaces

After initially exploring venue options stateside, Hendry was tipped off about the Bethnal Green church by a friend from her architecture school days. Epilogue comprises 30 small and medium artworks of flora, drawn by Hendry in her signature hyper-realistic style (they look more like studio photographs than sketches.)

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Architecture School in a Box

30X40 Design Workshop

Before I enrolled in architecture school in the late summer of 1991 (has it been 32 years?), As architecture schools greet new students this fall, I thought it would be fun to revisit that list of “must-haves” after having practiced architecture for 30 years. What’s stood the test of time in my practice?

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#ArchiSketch | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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. The rest of my afternoon is starting to look up – all that’s missing is a beer Hashtags used: #sketching.

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Architecture in the Real World … sorta

Life of an Architect

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. ”) 2.