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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Architecture Student Students Architect Architecture 84

Dwell

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Floating Museum paired her with Benjamin, who runs GSAPP’s Footprint Project, a graduate course that trains students in researching and designing the "invisible" building footprints—carbon, water, biodiversity, and labor. A diagram shows the structure’s rectangular plan. When the building is complete this spring, it won’t be "finished."

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Building Diagram Mining Manufacturing 122

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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Housing Deconstruction Restoration Diagram 102

Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

Simply based on my inbox, there is a new batch of bright and shiny new future architects about to graduate and they are on the hunt for their future … hopefully in an office like mine. Every graduating architecture student has a portfolio – even I had one, and I maintained it for several years too.

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Architect Architecture School Firms Architecture Student 76

ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 10, 2022

There are about 3800 ghost towns in America due to westward expansion, mining and industrialization between 1880-1940 and about 50 well-planned abandoned ghost towns in China, followed by other countries with abandoned historic towns. All students and professionals can participate in the competitions. to express the design fully.

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Students Site Diagram Mining 52

Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

A mentor of mine once told me, “Reinvent the wheel on your own time.” Big thick black walls look great in parti diagrams. I currently TA drawing I for undergrad freshmen and I find myself defending drawing all the time to other students, colleagues and even some former professors. gt Hi Bob, great post.

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Architect Architecture Firms IT 111

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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Architect Architecture Technique Deconstruction 105