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]
The idea of an architect designing a house for themselves sounds inevitable, like it’s lurking on the horizon as some kind of professional rite of passage. Reality doesn’t line up with the expectation, and not because architects lack the skill or the … [Continue reading]
Every so often a topic comes up that sounds straightforward on the surface, but the longer you sit with it, the harder it is to pin down. Being your own boss is one of those ideas. It gets talked about like a destination, or a title, or a clean break … [Continue reading]
Every so often a comment lands that sticks around longer than it should because it touches something familiar. The note that sparked today’s conversation came from a call I received from someone observing that architects often seem like they don’t … [Continue reading]
