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Charcoal, Mushrooms, and More Become Building Parts for a South Chicago Artist Residency

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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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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

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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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On Case Studies

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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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Resonate | Concert Hall

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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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Dear Future Architects – You need to Hear This

Life of an Architect

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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Architectural Graphic Standards | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

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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Architectural Tricks of the Trade | Life of an Architect

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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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