How much drafting does a fully licensed architect do? What is something you learned in the industry that you hadn’t been taught in school? Are you as condescending to your employees as your redlines let on? All this and potentially other hateful … [Continue reading]
Ep 107: Design Development
There is a process when working on a residential project when you actually start figuring out what the project will look like in terms of elevations, exterior materials, interior finishes, specialty lighting, cabinetry, plumbing fixtures … a lot of … [Continue reading]
Ep 106: Architecture School 101: Equipment
Around this time every year that a new crop of potential future architects are about to start their first year of architecture school, and they have questions. What equipment do I need? Drawing supplies? Computer requirements? What about software and … [Continue reading]
Ep 105: Interior Architecture
Architecture is a field with a wide variety of possible pathways and careers. Today we will focus our attention on the closely related field of Interior Architecture. What exactly is Interior Architecture you ask? That’s what we will be discussing, … [Continue reading]
Ep 104: Conventions – The Best and Worst of Times
Depending on your age, sooner or later you will end up at one convention or another. For some people, this is a yearly migration full of can’t-miss opportunities. For others, it’s three days of questionable decisions and most likely, a lot of fun. … [Continue reading]
Ep 103: Architects and the Art of Being Happy
Take a look around and you are likely to see what I see. Read the emails I receive and you're likely to start believing it as well. People, which includes Architects, seem to be fairly unhappy at the moment and we are going to see what we can do … [Continue reading]