How hard is it to do work for your friends? How has shifting from employee to employer changed the way you approach projects? If you could drastically change one thing about architecture school, what … [Read more...]
Archives for 2022
Architectural Redlines on an iPad
On and off for the last two weeks, I have been reviewing and redlining drawings for one of our residential projects. I wrote about this process a few weeks ago in a post titled Design Process - … [Read more...]
Architects Working with Consultants
When architects work with consultants, how does that process operate? How many consultants are there on any given project? Well, that answer can vary widely by project type. Since this was a recently … [Read more...]
EP 093: The Top 10 Reasons NOT to be an Architect
Let’s admit it – telling someone you are an architect is pretty cool because whether or not they understand what that means or what the job entails. Regardless of the accuracy of information those … [Read more...]
Design Process – Redlines
There are a few things that I know with absolute certainty ... Leprechauns are jerks, people will tell me if I don't call out the vapor barrier in my sketches, and seeing redlines will cause PTSD. I … [Read more...]
2022 Reading List
Well, this is not a New Year’s resolution post, it is a new year post of my 2022 proposed reading list. For the past few years, at the beginning of each year, I try to choose a stack of books that I … [Read more...]