We've all been there ... walking some lonely aisle of despair (with 3,000 other people) within IKEA looking for the Ekby Järpen floating wall shelves. Everybody knows that if you're cool, really … [Read more...]
Who Doesn’t Love a Nice Bar?
In case you haven't figured this out for yourself, let me be the one to tell you: Bars are making a comeback. Maybe that's the sort of thing you don't want to brag about knowing - or worse - be … [Read more...]
Scale and Proportion
For any architect, scale and proportion are two skills that appear to be the most challenging to master. Scale and proportion are also where a good architect makes their living. I know coming out of … [Read more...]
The Cottage House
I'm starting to lose count of how many playhouses I've designed over the last 6 years ... I think it's around 8 or 9, which might not sound like a lot to you but it certainly seems like a lot to me. … [Read more...]
2016 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition – Finalists
Last Friday was a big night here at Life of an Architect World Headquarters 2.0. It was the first round of playhouse judging and we had to go through 415 entries. While that sounds like a lot, it … [Read more...]
A Case for Building Architectural Models
When architects are in school, they build a lot of models during their coursework. I don't have an actual count but I bet that over the 6 years I spent in school that I built a few hundred models. … [Read more...]