Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Today is a first – I am doing something that I told myself that I would never do … show you one of my projects from architecture school. The grade of the project site fell off very rapidly – part of the reason that this very real site had never been built upon. Why the change of heart?

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Today is a first – I am doing something that I told myself that I would never do … show you one of my projects from architecture school. Number 1 [drum roll please …………… ] Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me April 7, 2014 Ever wished your sketches looked like mine?

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Our interactive on-site and online studio experience harnesses digital tools to mentor students throughout our rigorous curriculum. "We We offer an excellent design education by developing each student's capacity to synthesise critical thought, architectural vision and technical comprehension. "In

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Although the site history is rooted in the meat trade, the amount of land required for meat production is not viable in the urban context. Student: Charlotte Edwards. Course: RIBA Foundation in Architecture. Soya Locavore District by Radostina Stoyanova. Tutor: Alice Howland. Email: ribastudio[at]brookes.ac.uk.

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Portland Architecture

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

O'Brien, who like me was born in 1972 and turned 50 this year, spent a week here this fall as a Portland State University visiting lecturer, culminating in a student design workshop in October. A friend of mine, Morgan Neill, who is the deputy director at the National Museum of Australia, put this fantastic exhibition on it.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The fact I included a case study chapter in Buildings in Print , as mentioned above, points to my appreciation of this sub-genre of architecture books but also to the role they have played in teaching architecture students, spreading knowledge around important works, and promoting architects and architecture within and beyond the profession.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

One of the newest members of prestigious A+Awards Jury , Germane Barnes’ research and design practice investigates the connection between architecture and identity. Mining architecture’s social and political agency, he examines how the built environment influences black domesticity. Germane Barnes.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

far we have Architect Architecture Student Drywall Contractor Interior Designer and today its an architectural photographer. Today’s bag belongs to Matthew Carbone - a friend of mine who divides his time between New York City and Columbus, Ohio. Following my casual advice is at your own peril.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

” Other than the fact that I am an architect and I have my finger on the pulse of architects savvy enough to be reading my site, I pretty much write down the list I would give my wife and post it here. The lead is advanced with a simple twist of the top, and there is a huge eraser (although I personally have no use for mine).

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As workers carve the land, the salt mine transforms into a mosque. Students Bryn Peterson, Collin Bentley and Collin Dorsey envisioned speculative futures of post-human Florida, proposing the use of embedded robotics in Amazon Mega-Fulfillment centres as autonomous labor for adaptive reuse.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

It also helps me know which rolls of trace paper in the office are mine. I think they are all worth reading and commenting on, they are some of the most visited posts on this site. Architectural Sketches Architects sketch as part of the process when doing their job … at least I do.

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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. Mine deserved a ribbon [link] Bridget Willard HA! I love this fragment: “how is this 10?

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Here it is – an unfolded 11″x17″ piece of paper … if your office is anything like mine, you have thousands of these laying about your space. Underdog Architecture Student What about the way to tear a straight piece off of a roll of trace? (I could you be any more excited?!?) This should fit in a 9 x 14.5

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 10, 2016

I flew in to Madison Wisconsin, rented a car, and then drove North for 4+ hours to get to my project site. bajillion trees on this site. It makes for a beautiful approach to the project site, but if you’re – oh, I don’t know – walking this driveway at night, by yourself … it’s kinda creepy.

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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. Cool, but whacky.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As workers carve the land, the salt mine transforms into a mosque. Students Bryn Peterson, Collin Bentley and Collin Dorsey envisioned speculative futures of post-human Florida, proposing the use of embedded robotics in Amazon Mega-Fulfillment centres as autonomous labor for adaptive reuse.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

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 did mine and everyone, including the teacher, thought my parents did it. Therefore, anything you read on this site is not a substitute for actually working with me.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It is a state architecture board mandate as to what the requirements are for licensure, not NCARB. Look on their site, they say very plainly that, licensure requirements are the prevue of the licensing state body and not that of NCARB. Mine is based on the law in many of the states I carry an architectural license.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

/ Architectural Studio – 4 Questions Architectural Studio – 4 Questions Bob Borson — May 8, 2014 — 30 Comments A large percentage of the articles I write on this site are the result of receiving the same sorts of questions over and over again. Do you know the true purpose of an architectural portfolio? .

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But as the earlier guides made clear, there is more to the boroughs than the familiar sites found in other guidebooks; and the boroughs are made up of people, not just buildings and landscapes, and it was those people that interested Helmreich the most. It's refreshing to see architecture students tackling affordable housing in creative ways.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

"Students in Washington University's Sam Fox School also have the opportunity to expand their practice by pairing any two programmes between architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Littered with ruin and decay, the chosen site has been polluted as the railroad industry of the past has vanished.

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