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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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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

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While 2014 isn’t technically over yet, it isn’t going to stop me [ cause I do what I want] from looking back at all the articles I wrote over the year to see which ones represented the very best that 2014 and I had to offer. This doesn’t mean that everyone who graduated in my era could sketch – far from it.

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I Want to be an Architect, Where Do I Start?

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What About Sketching? I’m not sure that it’s that big a deal nowadays – and it would seem that most graduating architecture students don’t really know how to sketch based on the portfolio’s I’ve seen. Can’t draw? It must be Presentation Skills … right?

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Do you really want to be an architect?

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To help answer this particular question, I have written over 50 articles in the last 5 years that have the “ Do you want to be an architect ” tag on them. This was the very first “Top Ten” list I ever wrote and in some ways, this is the most important article on my site. ” you ask? Almost 3 years?

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What did you miss in 2016? The Best from Life of an Architect

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Did you know I wrote 48 articles for this site last year? In the seven years that I have been writing articles here on Life of an Architect , that is my lowest output. The truth is that I was busier this year than I have ever been and even writing one article a week proved to be challenging.

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Surviving Architecture School | Life of an Architect

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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. Architectural Portfolio’s and their true purpose Architectural Sketching Taking the Architectural Registration Exam Do you want to be an Architect? How I believe in #13.