There are moments in practice when your job begins changing before anyone has formally admitted that your job has changed. The work you already have remains, but the expectations around it begin to expand, and suddenly the role starts asking for a … [Continue reading]
Two hundred episodes leaves behind more than a back catalog. It leaves a record of what we cared about, what we got right, what we wrestled with, and what kept changing shape the longer we sat with it. Some topics were easy to discuss, some were … [Continue reading]
Conflict doesn’t usually start with shouting. Conflict typically starts with a room full of professionals trying to keep it together while money, timing, blame, and ego begin working themselves up like a raccoon next to a vending machine. … [Continue reading]
Creativity gets talked about as though it arrives through some spark of inspiration … right up until you have to do it for a living. At this point, the conversation gets a lot more practical because ideas still have to survive deadlines, budgets, … [Continue reading]
Architecture is a long-game profession. It takes years to create a foundation of knowledge required to do our work. It begins in school and continues through your early career, and peaks after many years in the profession. As architects, we never … [Continue reading]
Retirement is one of those ideas that sounds simple right up until you apply it to architects, and then it starts to fall apart almost immediately. The idea itself seems straightforward enough - work for a long time, reach some undetermined age, and … [Continue reading]
