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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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MARCH 18, 2014

link] Bob Borson I choose not to make this a forum for religious or political commentary, but rather an appreciation of the architecture at hand. If you can’t look at a building like this and appreciate the design and the effort and craftsmanship that went into it, I don’t have anything further to say.

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JUNE 1, 2014

Home / Heard around the architectural studio / The Bee Hole of an Architect The Bee Hole of an Architect Bob Borson — June 2, 2014 — 49 Comments Most architects I know go about their business in an professional manner – but somehow that doesn’t necessarily translate to the behavior that happens in the office.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

One of Scarpa’s few ground up commissions, it is an exquisite lesson in architecture telling a story through metaphor. Architect: Le Corbusier completed 1956-1960 I met my first architectural love in the summer of 2003 during a whirlwind tour of European architecture. What building flipped your architectural switch on?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

As part of the ongoing series I am running, I have been showing the working contents of various design and construction related professionals.So far we have Architect Architecture Student Drywall Contractor Interior Designer and today its an architectural photographer. Great post. I suspect it would be different.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I don’t know about you but that doesn’t look like architecture to me … I imagine this is why people start having two martini lunches. Greets from Switzerland, Zeljko [link] Bob Borson I didn’t mean to infer that all meetings are a waste of time – it’s really that meetings can be time wasters.

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