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Architectural Sketching [or How to Sketch like Bob] | Life of an Architect

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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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Architecture Student Study Abroad Bag

Life of an Architect

To date we have seen contents from: Architect Architecture Student Drywall Contractor Interior Designer Photographer Graphic Designer Electrician’s Bag Today we get a look into the bag of American architecture student, Kyle Landau, who at the time was studying abroad in Florence for his fourth year.

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ON THE SHELF

Shades of Grey

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. Studying "The Way We Build" across time and space is an obsession of mine. Perhaps I will scan selected pages.

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Architecture School in a Box

30X40 Design Workshop

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. Essential Architecture Book List Design “Sketching is thinking,” as they say and initial concept development (for me) always happens in my sketchbook.

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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

Life of an Architect

I’m not entirely sure, maybe it’s the presentation I am putting together for a group of freshman architecture students … or maybe it’s because I found some of this stuff during my recent move and I got a good laugh after looking through my work. This doesn’t mean that everyone who graduated in my era could sketch – far from it.

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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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Ando and Le Corbusier

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

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.