Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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Deezen

JUNE 7, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: a fashion collection that celebrates the designer's Ukrainian roots and an allotment scheme at London's Docklands are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Kingston School of Art. In addition to learning core design and research skills, students work on live projects throughout the course.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Student drawings, scale models, and a life-size recreation of set designer Es Devlin's London studio are on display at an exhibition exploring the designer's 30-year archive at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Normally, my practice is a small group of people in my studio, resonating out to wider groups."

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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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Architecture Chat

MAY 6, 2019

The edition is complete with the latest syllabus, sketch book, practice tests and NATA study material. It also includes hand sketching tips from human proportions to various geometrical shapes. With this students have access to facility of free evaluation of sketches. Books of all subjects in one place.

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Deezen

AUGUST 4, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: a house informed by the playfulness of the game hide-and-seek and a textile collection that combines hand-manipulated and digital techniques are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students presented by the Design Institute of Australia. Student: Michael Smith. Student: Maddison Robinson.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 8, 2022

With intricate and lively sketches, he explains the classical orders of architecture that were created by Vitruvius around 100 AD. The book contains a large number of Terry’s drawings and sketches from travels, as well as linocuts. Mark’s Square and San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice and Inigo Jones’ St.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

David Drazil Founder of Sketch Like an Architect ; Published Author; Teacher David Drazil is an architect who loves to sketch. David Drazil Founder of Sketch Like an Architect ; Published Author; Teacher David Drazil is an architect who loves to sketch. David is also an author of three books on architectural sketching.

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Shades of Grey

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

I am a big believer in sketch sheets for internal use. Along the way I came upon these two "possibles" which were text books for courses I took during my first Architecture degree 1969-72 at UCL. Letting go of books is a strange thing. He rubs some people up the wrong way, but this is not that kind of book.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

After responding to a hopeful architect on Dwell.com I decided to flesh out my answer and include more books. Naturally there is some overlap and some of these books could fit in multiple headings, this is architecture after all. Covey – This is a universally loved book by people in every field. It is no surprise why.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

Books, tech, and lots of pens to set the newly minted designer up right. A University of Kentucky graduate exhorts her fellow students to “Be the change.” A “Challenge Sketchbook” with a list of challenges and a checkbox next to them so the student can check them off as accomplished. Well, it’s finally happened.

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Jane Griswold Radocchia

MAY 3, 2024

In 1540 Sebastiano Serlio drew this sketch in Book IV of his On Architecture.* Palladio doesn't describe this, but the roofs in his The Four Books of Architecture (1570) use the same pitch. Vignola's book on architecture was translated, of course. 1600, attributed to Vignola, comes from a book published in Spain.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that one-word term is used more prevalently, if not strictly, in regards to individual architects and/or firms. A book on Le Corbusier is a monograph.

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Architizer

JANUARY 1, 2024

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. We all know knowledge is the key and all that, so this year, why not try a different approach; what about starting or joining a book club?

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

MAY 18, 2023

Updated and expanded for 2023 grads, with more tech, more cult books, and a few surprising must-haves for the newly minted designer. A “Challenge Sketchbook” with a list of challenges and a checkbox next to them so the student can check them off as accomplished. By the LAM Editorial Advisory Committee* Well, it’s finally happened.

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Hotel Designs

JULY 8, 2024

From 1880 to 1940 the University flourished, welcoming both, wealthy local students as well as families of Colonial residents. You’ll also spot personal belongings of some of the students, including their bowler hats and end-of-year photographs, all still in great condition despite the passage of time.

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Shades of Grey

JULY 30, 2021

Freehand sketching and painting on stretched canvas are physical activities that I have always enjoyed. In my thirties, my obsession took me into education in Zimbabwe, writing and illustrating small text books, teaching at various levels. It’s interesting to return to university as a mature student. Oh to be young again.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It also has a new translation of Ando’s essay “Le Corbusier and His Houses,” with photos of more than 100 models of Le Corbusier houses made by Ando’s students in Tokyo, 2001, with Ando's commentary included in English for the first time. The two-part exhibition had two curators: Eric Mumford did the Corbu component and Daniel J.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Sketchbooks: Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketches by George Saumarez Smith Triglyph Books , October 2021 Hardcover | 10 x 12-1/2 inches | 240 pages | English | ISBN: 9781916355439 | $55.00 George has written several books on architecture and regularly teaches classicism at schools across Europe and North America.

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Bustler

JUNE 25, 2022

Choose the building typology and convey your thoughts through a maximum of two sketches and 500 words. Convey your thoughts through a maximum of two sketches and 500 words. Submissions are open to all students and architects writing in English. . The story may be accompanied by one to two sketches.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2024

The book spotlights in detail 14 of the studio's projects, organised around eight themes that it considers important to contemporary architecture including adaptive reuse, affordability and materiality. Since then I knew that I wanted to be an architect." We were not working together, we were competing against each other," explained Chybík.

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He has also received a series of commissions in the Miami Design District in 2018 (in collaboration with SB Architects), years after publishing a book on his alleyway explorations, Tight Urbanism , in 2010. A recent Seattle house was featured in a New York Times article called " A Modern Home That Looks Toward the Sky and the Water."

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Architizer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

She also won the Top Student Prize in the 2021 One Drawing Challenge! She is the ambassador of Morpholio, the Sketching app for Architects and designers and also one of the partners of Arquiforma, a Brazilian platform for students. Left: Lora Teagarden; right: The ARE Sketches book by Lora Teagarden.

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30X40 Design Workshop

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As architecture schools greet new students this fall, I thought it would be fun to revisit that list of “must-haves” after having practiced architecture for 30 years. And I just like having physical books nearby as I'm designing, and I use them to reference details and standards during the design process.

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Bustler

JULY 19, 2022

For this, we will visit those sites of odd more-than-human collaborations and explore site-specific ways of working through sketching, mapping, and storytelling. in history books, mythologies, encyclopedias, maps and guidebooks, and furthermore try to build an oddly possible topography of its own.

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ArchiDiaries

APRIL 30, 2022

It is home to the city’s cultural heritage, modern art, music, films and over a million books, including more than 16,000 from the Japanese occupation period and of course, is equipped with the latest technologies of a modern library. Art and books. Drawings & Sketches. Bamboo forest. Heritage collection.

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Shades of Grey

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

These are some of the sketches I made in the days following the workshop. In 1980 two friends from my student days invited me to join their project, self-publishing a book about the "squatting movement". Squatting, the Real Story" As illustrator I was responsible for the section pages of this 1980 book.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Omar Nobil: Students coming out of university in the last three to five years have a dramatically different understanding of 3D design – they really are 3D natives. MillerKnoll has contemporary furniture as well as design classics Alice Laycock: Do you think there's still a place for hand sketching? Omar Nobil: Absolutely.

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Architizer

MAY 15, 2023

With two different awards categories for the Best Architectural VDrawing ( Hand Drawn and Computer Aided ), each recognizing a Studio Winner, an Individual (independent professional) Winner and a Student Winner, there are opportunities for all career levels to receive accolades from this accomplished panel.

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Deezen

JUNE 8, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: a feminist urban architectural intervention and a design created to support wild bees in Stockport feature in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Manchester School of Architecture. We have also welcomed international exchange students visiting from partner institutions. Student: Megan Pledger.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

As a graphic design student at the Basel School of Design, Solomon studied with the Swiss modernist Armin Hofmann, scrutinizing Helvetica with a microscope, slicing off unnecessary serifs, and building a bridge to a new world through typographic economy. She knows how to put my little crummy sketches on a whole wall,” Solomon says.

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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 Books For Architects I have a lot of books … but by the standards of most architects, I run kind of light in terms of actual numbers. All of the books I have on this list are keepers.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Makes me want to get out my sketch book and try to start working on my own delineation skills. I don’t think that I will ever approach the level of skill demonstrated by these winners – but not many people ever will.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Apparently, some years I clearly want more stuff than others, and this year’s list at 28 total items falls somewhat short of last year’s intensive mega-book list (43 total items, 31 one of which were books.) At some point, I think we all need to overlay a few items and coordinate.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Home / Life in General / Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Bob Borson — October 24, 2013 — 38 Comments 23 years ago, as a fourth year architecture student, I spent the Fall semester traveling around Western Europe soaking in all the architectural wonders I could find.

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A4 Architects

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

JNA Griswold Design Sketch (Above) and the completed house (Below), 1864 Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) was the first American citizen to be admitted to study at the École des Beaux Arts, the preeminent school of art and architecture in the world during the 19 th century.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MAY 30, 2023

My 2018 trip yielded a pair of "book briefs" on this blog with two handfuls of catalogs from the main exhibition, some from the national pavilions, and some on collateral events. Although a similar number of books from the current Biennale is featured below, it felt this year that print catalogs were slimmer than in years past.

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