Life of an Architect

AUGUST 15, 2016

What About Sketching? I’m not sure that it’s that big a deal nowadays – and it would seem that most graduating architecture students don’t really know how to sketch based on the portfolio’s I’ve seen. It must be Presentation Skills … right? Can’t draw?

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

"We were competing against each other" Chybík traces his own interest in architecture back to childhood memories of visiting the Faculty of Architecture at Brno University of Technology , where his father was a professor. "I Since then I knew that I wanted to be an architect."

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Architizer

JANUARY 17, 2023

For young architecture students and experienced practitioners alike, the book remains a source of inspiration and a constant reminder of the infinite possible experiences inherent to any place. This year’s One Drawing Challenge Non-Student Winner, Thomas Schaller , is one of those architects.

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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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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I could also argue that boiling water is particularly handy for architecture students so they can eat those oh-so-delicious $0.99 What I want from my architectural books is context … meaning plans, sections, details – things that support the pretty pictures presented in the book.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I like how the phrase indicates that the subject, the case , is being analyzed in depth: it is being studied , not just presented. Perhaps the most well known case studies are from Phaidon's "Architecture in Detail" series from the 1990s, when a few-dozen buildings were documented in photographs, drawings, and critical essays.

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Bustler

MARCH 8, 2022

Use as many types of architectural forms as you wish. REQUIREMENTS The Proposal to be presented on One Landscape Oriented A1 Sheet. Proposals can be presented using any technique of your choice ( Sketches, 2D Drawings, 3D Visualizations, Models, etc. The labyrinth can be of any form. The amount is non-refundable.

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Bustler

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Participants are encouraged to explore how the architecture of a place affects the behavior of people under its influence. REQUIREMENTS The Proposal to be presented on One Landscape Oriented A1 Sheet. Proposals can be presented using any technique of your choice ( Sketches, 2D Drawings, 3D Visualizations, Models, etc.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So, for the culinarily committed, precision-passionate architect, this might well be the perfect present. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School. With the labyrinthine etchings, the exclusive grey and natural serving board presents crudités charcuterie and slices of bread in the beautiful Prairie style. Calm Subscription.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Home / Career / Surviving Architecture School Surviving Architecture School Bob Borson — December 16, 2013 — 49 Comments Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific. While in studio, you will get the opportunity to practice standing up in front of a room full of people and presenting.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 4, 2016

If you love Brutalism, Modernism, Post War, Social Housing, all presented randomly in beautiful black and white photography (along with a seemingly endless supply of closeup images of cast-in-place concrete, then this is the site for you. There are plenty of architecture student blogs, I just think this one is the best.

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e-architect

JANUARY 6, 2022

His interdisciplinary work has been published in well-known architecture magazines, as well as exhibited in Mexico, Spain, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and China. He has also presented his projects in various editions of the Venice, Sao Paulo, Rotterdam, Chile and Lima Biennials. Contestants.

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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. There is no avoiding it and since it isn’t cheap, this book makes for a wonderful present.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

Your future in architecture depends on your ability to learn and UN-learn – letting go of how things are and imagining new possibilities. Being a successful architect takes more than creating a wonderful idea and presenting it to your client. I once had a phone call with an architecture student asking for advice.

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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. Be Present. Be Present. 21 journal entries per month whether it be writing or sketching.

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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

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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Deezen

JUNE 3, 2022

Being surrounded by greenery helps people disconnect from the stressful city life and be in the present moment.". Student: Agne Daugintyte. Atelier Making employs making as its primary mode of design and research enquiry within architectural design and this connects all projects in the atelier. Course: BA3 Atelier Flux.

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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

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? Do they have things they are passionate about?

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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. Pay attention to the built environment around you.

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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. Just look up. Start early, and keep the habit up.

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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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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. saying this, I don’t regret the years I spent at the university.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 21, 2022

The large page size and landscape format (very much like the monograph on Sean Godsell's houses , also published by Thames & Hudson) is used to full effect, with large color photographs and easy-to-read floor plans presented alongside the conversational text by Dominic Bradbury.

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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 the book is big, the numbers on the cover indicate how small it is compared to the collection: it presents just 1,145 of the museum's 210,000 objects in its archive. A few of these books will receive longer reviews next month.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

Sharon Johnston and her firm, Johnston Marklee , are keenly aware of this relationship between architecture and fantasy. Time and again, they create structures such as Vault House in Oxnard, California: buildings that are playful, elegant and seem to belong more to the future than the present. Momoyo Kaijima. Neri Oxman.

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Bustler

DECEMBER 9, 2022

REQUIREMENTS The Proposal is to be presented on One Landscape Oriented A1 Sheet. Proposals can be presented using any technique of your choice ( Sketches, 2D Drawings, 3D Visualizations, Models, etc. Anyone can participate irrespective of profession or qualification, and present their ideas. The amount is non-refundable.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I suppose that this seems fortuitous to some people but there were times when this presented serious complications. When I first started architecture school as a freshman in college, I didn’t have the focus or maturity I needed to tackle the curriculum and I ended up having a serious identity crisis when I was 19 years old.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 30, 2014

While their main task is still the storage, preparation, and presentation of food, kitchens play an important role in how we live and – in our busy lives – how we spend time with our family. Robbie Darling Bob I am an architecture student, and recently I got to design a small dwelling, which included its own small kitchen.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 21, 2023

It's not uncommon today to find architecture firms, no doubt driven by savvy marketing departments and PR firms, merging their brands across platforms, such that their monographs resemble their websites. The four recently published monographs that follow provide four diverse expressions for architectural monographs today.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 30, 2015

The “Architectural School Jury” is a process that exists in architecture schools the world over – it’s where the victim student will pin their work up on the wall, and then try to explain what their project is trying to accomplish. All the information you choose to present should support the big idea.

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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’. Design presentation see here.

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