Shades of Grey

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

I am a big believer in sketch sheets for internal use. The interesting thing is that I attended very few of the lectures at the time, and like many of the students regarded the courses as unnecessarily dull. Bottom line: I'm definitely a fan of apprentice type systems, be it for building trades or professions.

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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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Architizer

APRIL 17, 2023

The Vision Awards offers a powerful opportunity for studios, individuals/professionals and students to gain a major accolade for their work, with dedicated awards reserved for each of these three groups. by Shelby Kroeger See Your Architectural Images Celebrated Worldwide!

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The Student Architect

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I'm Chelsea from TheStudentArchitect.com where I create software tutorials and provide a variety of resources for architects and architecture students. You can either create it by entering your distances and bearings, or you can do a free sketch. So if I double-click to go back into that sketch.

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Shades of Grey

APRIL 4, 2023

Must have cost a bit but it definitely contributes to the inverted pagoda effect. That would be a great little collaborative project for a group of architectural technology students, learning to use Revit, embedding data as an introduction to BIM, and gaining deeper insights into local heritage. Looking pretty good for a 1980s project.

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Shades of Grey

APRIL 30, 2021

Don’t have all the answers yet, but definitely making progress. There are little sketches mixed up with diary entries and general musings on life. I found a sketch of mortar on a “spot board” and a piece of decorative brickwork, including a brick-on-edge roll. Some of these families are fixed size with visibility parameters.

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ArchiDiaries

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Despite being often relegated to a genre of music, Jazz has throughout its history, challenged any attempts to bind it down to a definition. Yet, despite its constant metamorphosis and hard to pin down definition, Jazz has the quaint quality of being instantly recognized. . to express the design fully. Eligibility.

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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. Can’t draw? It must be Presentation Skills … right?

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As students, we learned about some notorious failed schemes: OMA’s entry for the 1982 Parc de la Villette competition in Paris, the 1999 competition short list for Downsview Park in Toronto, or the incomplete implementation of the 1851 Andrew Jackson Downing plan for the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 6, 2019

It contains lots of useful features and is definitely worth your time. Sketching on your tablet can be done by several applications. My favorites in this category are Arrette Scale or Arrette Sketch , Archisketch and Tayasui Sketches. All four of them are capable of meeting your needs and then some.

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Shades of Grey

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They made me think of Gordon Cullen and his Townscape sketches /manifesto. Definitely part of the same modern world but immediately slightly different in terms of culture and "ways of building" It was already dark by the time I emerged from the jerky old metro. All as hands-on as possible. These are shots from my morning walk.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Addams family first appeared in a 1938 New Yorker comic by cartoonist Charles Addams, which marked the earliest sketch in a long-running cartoon series depicting the ghoulish family. Showrunner Alfred Gough, who created the series with Miles Millar, told Netflix in a press release: "Nevermore Academy is a new setting that we created.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

All students and professionals are encouraged to submit entries, which are judged by a three member panel that includes industry recognized visionaries in the graphic arts. This competition is a big deal and there are typically hundreds of entries from all over the world from both professionals, students and all points in between.

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The Student Architect

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

I'm Chelsea from TheStudentArchitect.com where I create software tutorials and provide a variety of resources for architects and architecture students. So, while this is one way that you could add in your setback lines, it's definitely not my preferred method. Video Transcript Hey, happy Sunday!

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Architizer

MARCH 7, 2024

At some point in the school year, a student in my AP Literature class will ask the dreaded question: what is “Modernism?” Every city needs discussion pieces, and expressive, sculptural architecture helps give definition to otherwise homogeneous urban environments. Plug in to the latest design discussions by subscribing.

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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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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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Shades of Grey

MAY 29, 2022

He was a student in Cape Town. I like to draw with Revit which allows me to incorporate 3d and data into my sketch. So in a way, the sketching and note scribbling of my youth has coevolved with the digital era. I’m not just talking to myself. My son Joe told me what a blog was about 16 years ago, or tried to.

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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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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. Honestly, just pay attention to the built environment around you.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Makes me want to get out my sketch book and try and start working on my own delineation skills. Cheers Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Design Architects , architectural sketching , architectural technology , design Reading between the Lines What to Get an Architect for. Thank you for sharing. Incredible!

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

After my trademarked exhaustive research, I am happy to report definitively that the winner is … it’s a tie. While this would get more use by an architect that tends to sketch more, I still believe that it is useful to any architect. At some point, I think we all need to overlay a few items and coordinate.

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ArchiDiaries

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

People enjoy what technology brings, surfing the Internet on their smartphones or tablets and watching high-definition movies on their televisions at home. Try using comprehensive presentation techniques; use images, illustrations, sketches, views, diagrams, text, etc. All students and professionals can participate in the competitions.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

APRIL 19, 2022

Adriana Hall, Student ASLA. A mentoring setup helps to mitigate this distance, but there’s something to be said for across-the-table discussion and working, sketching, iterating, etc. Aravena: Yes, definitely have to double down on what Jenn is getting at. Principal and design director, Arbolope Studio, St. Jeff Cutler.

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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. They are both terrific and both have a role to play; I receive enough emails relating to hand sketching ( old architects ) versus computer drawing ( young architects ) that I think I have my finger on the pulse on how that argument plays out. But a physical model?

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

In addition to the college students they teach, children seem to be a primary target audience for their work. Straub typically makes the early sketches for a project, which Thurmayr then shepherds through design development and construction drawings.

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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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Life of an Architect

JUNE 11, 2014

Since a number of people don’t seem to understand this concept, I thought I would whip together some sketches to help illustrate my point. Love the sketches too. As a student, we do not see things such as this! If you can’t read drawings, hopefully my explanation will be good enough for you to understand. Thanks Bob.

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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. Next time you get one, see if you can work in something about your student loans being completely paid off – LOL! How mean am I? :>)

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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. Manipulating digital images for college students just wasn’t an option. This is the tool that will play THE key role in getting a job … the right sort of job.

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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. a bus depot.) Probably too much so.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

My office’s models tend to be study-work-in-progress, since I’m faster with an Xacto than perspective – and I detest how so many of my boss’s sketches faked the scale, and other sketches left a wall out and misled the observer/client. lancotf Great design. It looks like a blast!

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The Architect's Guide

APRIL 8, 2021

Whether you are an architectural professional or student you should find many of these resources a welcome addition to your home or office library. A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture. Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design. Buy on Amazon.

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