Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 28, 2016

There were sketching posts, technical posts, career advice posts, and general observation type posts … none of which represented a category of runaway favorites, but they definitely had their own “user” group. What about your sketching? That’s what architecture students do, they build models.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Granted, not all buildings should have a book devoted to them, but definitely more than have been given the case-study treatment. This short list indicates that case studies are just as often critical takes as they are first-person accounts of the making of something.

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BD+C

APRIL 3, 2023

Welcome to Life of an Architect episode 122: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Here are the show notes from episode 122: Today we are going to start the process of discussing artificial intelligence and how it is intersecting with the practice of architecture, as well as the education process of architecture students.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 4, 2016

my internet explorer history ) and peer feedback ( I asked some people I know ) I have created “the” definitive listing of the Best Architectural Websites in the World for 2016. Just be warned, it might take some time to get a response, this is an architectural student website and she’s probably on a deadline.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In what has become an annual “must write” post, I present to you THE definitive list of “What to Get an Architect for Christmas.” If I ever saw something that an architecture student needed, this is it. Since half of my sketches are total clunkers, the cahier journals seem just a bit more forgiving.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 31, 2016

That’s what architecture students did, they built models. Fast forward 20 years and I look around and think: “What happened to all the architectural models?!? When I was in school, back when I was just starting my journey and my sketches were unrecognizable, physical models played a huge role in my design process.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 28, 2015

In fact, I generally don’t like dressing up in a costume and I definitely don’t like putting stuff on my face. I actually found the sketch I made as part of my design process ( what did we do before Instagram ? Some people simply lose their minds when it comes to Halloween … I am not one of those people.

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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. The Bottom Line With Finding School of Architecture.

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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. The Bottom Line With Finding Architecture Graduate School.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2017

If you are an architectural student – or a young architecture school graduate – Architectural Portfolios are extremely important. Demonstrate your Graphic Fluency Even though at the time this was the portfolio of an architectural student, it has the visual sensibilities of a graphic designer.

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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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The Architect's Guide

APRIL 8, 2021

The Architecture Reference & Specification Book updated & revised: Everything Architects Need to Know Every Day. A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture. Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design. By Julia McMorrough.

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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

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. Derek Fordé I’m definitely a dreamer. Probably too much so.

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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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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

The definition of a modern approach to war,” she said, “is the acknowledgment of individual lives lost.”. Left: ARE Sketches Volume I; right: Lora Teagarden. Trumpet was also part of the six architecture students chosen to design and construct a collapsible table for the CCNY Architecture School’s Solar Roof Pod.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The students developed master plans and then designed schemes ranging from reimagined brownstones to terraced housing and other ways of weaving more units between the existing buildings. It's refreshing to see architecture students tackling affordable housing in creative ways.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 21, 2023

His projects, as rendered in sketches, drawings, models, perspectives, and collages, are just too beautiful. No wonder his website sells prints of his architectural imagery — and no wonder this monograph is saturated with the same, sure to woo architects and architecture students too young to remember the nineties.

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