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

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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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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

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Home / Life in General / Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Bob Borson — October 24, 2013 — 38 Comments 23 years ago, as a fourth year architecture student, I spent the Fall semester traveling around Western Europe soaking in all the architectural wonders I could find.

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Inside the mind of an architecture student

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Five years of a learning experience The mind of an architecture student is indeed a cauldron filled with fretting emotions, art, thought-provoking ideas, stories, and myriad experiences. But like everything, architecture has its pros and cons. Travelling, sketching, researching, writing –you do it all.

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Architecture and The Art of Getting it Wrong | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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. Pingback: Architecture and The Art of Getting it Wrong |.

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Is This the Most Beautiful Architecture School Project Ever Designed?

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When she was an architecture student, Joanne Chen seized on this trend in an imaginative manner, designing a factory where master craftsmen could work alongside one another. In Victorian England, members of the Arts and Crafts movement called for an integration of the arts with everyday life.

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Why Architects Should Never Stop Drawing By Hand

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James Wines is a renowned American artist and architect associated with environmental design, and is founder and president of SITE, a New York City-based architecture and environmental arts organization chartered in 1970. A selection of Wines’ sketches.

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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

If your school doesn’t put any sort of emphasis on sketching, burn an elective (or two) and take a class over in the arts building. Nobody in architecture school knows it yet but there are so many roles besides designer in the field of architecture that there is a place for everyone. How I believe in #13.