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? Cheers Lee hi Bob!

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

I once had a phone call with an architecture student asking for advice. This would have been my favorite section when I was an architecture student. Architecture and Disjunction by Bernard Tschumi – This is by far my most marked up, underlined, and starred architecture book. Theory + Design Process.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If I ever saw something that an architecture student needed, this is it. As a bonus, even non-architects would like a book like this because it explains the vocabulary that architects use on a daily basis with wonderful sketches that clearly show the subject. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture – $32 by David B.

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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 ? It has seriously become my online photo document/diary ). This is really a challenge to architecture students – you of all people should be designing and carving some kick-ass pumpkins. Let me see those pumpkins!

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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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Life of an Architect

JUNE 9, 2014

It is extremely complicated and we are using Rhino and Grasshopper (fancy modeling software) to help generate and document the design – I’ll show it on the site here when I have a bit more information to present. The stuff the architecture students are learning in college is whacky. Amazing piece of software.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 21, 2022

The Italian architect started his eponymous practice in 1992, after working in the office of Renzo Piano for a few years; that experience is evident in the Piano-esque nature of the sketches scattered throughout Building Green Futures as well as in a clear focus on sustainability in architecture.

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The Architect's Guide

APRIL 8, 2021

Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design The debate surrounding hand drawing versus computer-generated imagery has become a hot topic. Sketching, and the careful observation that it entails, is essential for the successful development of the next generation of designers. Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design.

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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

APRIL 30, 2014

Just think of me as your kitchen research accomplice … Cheers, Disclosure of Material Connection: I have partnered with Sub-Zero and Wolf to provide my professional opinion about kitchen design and document its Kitchen Design Contest. I’m really interested to see how you approach this! Can’t wait for it.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

As Director of Interior Architecture, Ashley is responsible for managing hospitality projects through all phases of design. From Concept and Schematic Design, to producing detailed Construction Documentation, Ashley loves collaborating on design projects to make a client’s vision a reality. With a passion for historic preservation.

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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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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Even though I was fortunate enough to visit La Borda with the architects last year, the book's thorough documentation through photographs, drawings, and lengthy commentary from the architects means I learned something new about it — and the other commendable projects in the book.

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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

The School of Architecture at Taliesin has been a pillar both in the architecture world as well as Arizona and Wisconsin where Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna invited architecture students to live and work with them and immerse themselves in ‘organic architecture’.

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