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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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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The Women Who Changed Architecture

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Discover contemporary leaders, like MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, spearheading sustainable design initiatives, reimagining cities as equitable spaces, and directing architecture schools. An essential read for architecture students, architects, and anyone interested in how buildings are created and the history behind them.

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that one-word term is used more prevalently, if not strictly, in regards to individual architects and/or firms. as "case studies."

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"Architecture is a hollowed-out profession with architects seemingly less vital than ever"

Deezen

Paul Crosby and I have explored the last 3,000 years of the western history of these someones, charting the evolution of their practice and education for our recently released book Architect: the evolving story of a profession. The main image is of architecture students on site in the 1950s, courtesy of RIBA collections.

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Reconstructing the Stockholm Exhibition 1930

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

dDAB COMMENTARY : Although it took more than 75 years for it to be translated into English, one of the books I felt the need to include in Buildings in Print: 100 Influential and Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books was Acceptera , the manifesto of Swedish modernism that came out one year after the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930.

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The Architect's Questionnaire: Gabe Fonseca

Portland Architecture

I generally tend to appreciate modern architecture more, however, the mass and weight of this building impressed me to the point of researching it further. When I was an undergraduate architecture student, I was introduced to the book City of Quartz by Mike Davis.

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What to Get an Architect for Christmas – 2016

Life of an Architect

I could also argue that boiling water is particularly handy for architecture students so they can eat those oh-so-delicious $0.99 Books For Architects I have a lot of books … but by the standards of most architects, I run kind of light in terms of actual numbers. All of the books I have on this list are keepers.

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