Is the education of architecture school about the big ideas or the technical details? This is a question that has been on my mind quite a bit lately. So what should be the focus of the collegiate architecture school system? The Complaints I was … [Continue reading]
Architects are expected to have a working mastery of building science and technology, construction techniques, and methodologies, all while bringing everything together in a visually pleasing manner. If that didn’t sound like a lot and something … [Continue reading]
Time for the next installment of Architectural Graphics 101, and this time I decided to take a look at architectural symbols which are really wayfinding devices for our construction drawings. They are not very complicated items but shockingly I have … [Continue reading]
So I was having a conversation with some professor colleagues the other day and we got on the subject of knowledge versus tools. The basic idea of this chat was about what students should be learning during their architectural education. Which of … [Continue reading]
Architects come out of school with a ton of knowledge, except most don’t actually know how to be an architect … and What does that even mean? That is the focus of today as we look at and discuss what it takes to "build an architect". A large part of … [Continue reading]
How many of you remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books from your childhood? These were books that came out in the late 1970s and early 1980s and the premise was that you read a book and roughly at the bottom of every page or two you were given … [Continue reading]
