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 … [Read more...]
Architectural Graphics 101 – Symbols
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 … [Read more...]
Knowledge versus Tools
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 … [Read more...]
Ep 075: Should Architects Do It All?
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 … [Read more...]
Go To the Cave … or Return to Camp?
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 … [Read more...]
Ep 072: Architectural Disconnect
How old were you before you learned that architects exist? Do you remember that class you took in elementary school that talked about architects and architecture? Of course, you don’t … because for … [Read more...]