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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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

These days, many students work from home or their apartments since the work is done digitally. Also, where I spent a ridiculous amount of time building basswood models, most of the students I talk to these days send their digital files to a laser cutter and have the pieces of their model cut for them.

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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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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

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

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. The schooling that I received addressed the Art of Architecture, as well has history, etc.

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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

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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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. Cret instilled in his students a reverence for Beaux-Arts principles.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 22, 2018

Catherine Meng received her bachelor of architecture degree from Cornell University and joined DLR Group Kwan Hemi in 2016 where she focuses on multifamily and student housing projects. I loved architectural school, but I also know there’s times where you hate it. So I was like, I guess I have to go.

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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. Travel sketchers and architecture students would all enjoy better success if they knew, say how to pull the pencil to keep an even lineweight. I’m a 3rd year student in Australia so will be completing my Bachelor degree at the end of this year.

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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

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. Alan Manning Great! Thanks a lot!

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 19, 2018

She’s taught design studios, construction detailing and theory courses at the Boston Architectural College, The Northeastern University and Wentworth Institute of Technology, and was the director of Practice Instruction and Community Engagement Projects at the Boston Architectural College, where she directed nearly 80 student led projects.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 24, 2018

I’m older than you, so my parents were of the greatest generation and they, for whatever reason parents did in those days, shipped me up to Buffalo, New York for high school where I played football and was an okay student. So 55 percent of the graduates of architecture school will never get a job in architecture.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the costs of student loans, and general costs of living, and then compare them to the income of a young architect it is ridiculous! Mine is based on the law in many of the states I carry an architectural license. My name is Brett Bouwer and I am a third year architecture student at the university of colorado denver.

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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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