Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If I ever saw something that an architecture student needed, this is it. Over that last few years, I’ve included a book section as part of my “What to Give an Architect for Christmas” list … and they have always been the most purchased items. B O O K S ! ! ! Good enough for me.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This informative and well-illustrated children’s book written by Joe Rhatigan and illustrated by Jamie Tejido, outlines what an architect does and introduces children to some of the world’s most famous landmark buildings alongside architectural terms and fun facts.

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Shades of Grey

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They made me think of Gordon Cullen and his Townscape sketches /manifesto. In my youth as an architecture student, it was heralded as a steppingstone towards the ideal of structural honesty during the early days of the reinforced concrete frame. All as hands-on as possible. who invented that little portmanteau "hands-on")?

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

(Pinterest/from his latest book). A book unexpected and unannounced arrived on my doorstep today: Robert A.M. Stern’s Between Memory and Invention , which I immediately mistook for an update of an earlier volume of his, Tradition and Invention in Architecture (2011). I was just a kid. Sorry, I could not resist.)

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This year's roundup of books to give to discerning architects for the holidays is presented in pairs. While at least one book in each pair is new, the other one isn't necessarily so — new, old, or not-so-old, it is related to the first in some manner, as explained in my descriptions. Hey, architectural historians like gift books, too!)

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

x 10) - $15 I’m a big advocate of sketching, despite the fact that I am not particularly adept in my own sketching “style” I get a lot of Moleskine journals as gifts but the one I’ve listed above is my favorite. Since half of my sketches are total clunkers, the cahier journals seem just a bit more forgiving.

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e-architect

JANUARY 6, 2022

She is the director and founder of the Mexican law firm ROZANA MONTIEL | ARCHITECTURE STUDY focused on architectural design, artistic re-conceptualizations of space and the public domain. The studio works on various projects at different scales and strata ranging from the city to the book, the artifact, and other micro-objects.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 21, 2022

I've decided to bring back "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog.

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The Architect's Guide

APRIL 8, 2021

Architecture Books Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. For this post, I thought I would put together an exhaustive list of the best architecture books. The Architecture Reference & Specification Book updated & revised: Everything Architects Need to Know Every Day.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This is a guest post written by my friend Taylor Schaub, a 4th-year undergraduate architecture student at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She’s pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture degree with a minor in Business. Not until after the book was finished did I realize how imperative the impact was. Mindfulness.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

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? Greetings from Florence!

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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

For those in this situation, and even for those who do have an architecture background, here’s my advice: In the summer before starting school, spend a ton of time in the library, and an equal amount of time visiting buildings, sketching, and going to lectures and events. When I was looking for schools, that book was my Bible.

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Young Architect

APRIL 1, 2022

For those in this situation, and even for those who do have an architecture background, here’s my advice: In the summer before starting school, spend a ton of time in the library, and an equal amount of time visiting buildings, sketching, and going to lectures and events. When I was looking for schools, that book was my Bible.

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Deezen

JUNE 8, 2022

Seagull's experiential design knowledge is collected into a recipe book reimaging gardens and the seaside.". Student: Megan Pledger. MAKING employs making as its primary mode of design and research enquiry within architectural design and this connects all projects in the atelier. Course: MArch Atelier &rchitecture.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I actually found the sketch I made as part of my design process ( what did we do before Instagram ? This is really a challenge to architecture students – you of all people should be designing and carving some kick-ass pumpkins. It has seriously become my online photo document/diary ). Anybody can do that.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

The Not so Sexy Side of Architecture Practicing architecture for 99.9% The practice of architecture is more than sketching on trace paper, parti diagrams, deciding what pens to draw with, groupies, and last-minute trips to Vegas. Why Should You Read This? Why Should You Read This?

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 9, 2014

Jess Hopkin If it’s any consolation, I use sketch up all the time for trying to make my point at uni Tony Bob, Im new to your blog, and I have had some reading a lot of your posts and insight. The stuff the architecture students are learning in college is whacky. Cool, but whacky. Place the fridge at other end of bench.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

So far we have seen the contents from: Architect Architecture Student Drywall Contractor Interior Designer Photographer Today we get to take a look inside the bag of Dallas based environmental graphic designer – Steve Jordan of Steve Jordan Design. This may shed some light: [link] 03306028 Ah very cool.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

The dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Andraos is also a founding partner of WORKac , a firm dedicated to “positing architecture at the intersection of the urban, the rural and the natural.” Her publications include the books 49 Cities and Above the Pavement—the Farm!

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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. One intern is a fantastic sketch artist and the other is a music genius.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I think through drawing and sketching, for others they might turn towards computer software … I don’t really care. I’m a 20 year old architecture student from India and I do believe I’m going through an identity crisis, right in the midst of my submissions too! I know I believe it. Alan Manning Great!

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 30, 2014

Robbie Darling Bob I am an architecture student, and recently I got to design a small dwelling, which included its own small kitchen. My wife is really anxious for me to move from the discussing and sketching phase into the construction document phase. I’m really interested to see how you approach this!

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MAY 30, 2022

Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. The biographer spoke with many people in the making of his book and "Holly is my hero" was a consistent refrain from them.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 21, 2023

Of the numerous books publishers send me for review — be they requested by me, pitched by them, or arriving at my doorstep unsolicited — the highest percentage of them are monographs. But books, in my opinion, are better archives than websites, offering architects a further level of control over the finished product compared to websites.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As a step towards the schematic design refinements, my boss had prepared 6' long pencil-drawn and marker-colored large-scale wall sections on narrow sketch paper strips that showed how everything should fit together. Such sketches are what I recommend my students to prepare if they want to test if they really understand their own design.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Reading the exhibition book reveals, that the critics who accused Koolhaas of an elitist perspective just didn’t read the global explorations of countrysides and its historical background. Is the 10 day construction of a hospital from modular units architecture? To hear the man himself thinking, click here ).

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