So I have been having conversations with my colleagues about this idea of what I will call Architectural Resolution. This is not exactly about the image resolution like in pixels or dots, but I could make that connection in another post. What is that … [Continue reading]
It’s almost that gift-giving time of the year and if you have an architect in your life, you know that getting them a gift is not the most amazing experience since they are offensively specific – but that’s why we’re here. Now in its 12th consecutive … [Continue reading]
Life in college for architecture students is remarkably predictable for those of us who have been through it. Despite the fact that I am 29 years removed from my own time in studio, very little appears to have actually changed. There are a few … [Continue reading]
When we were all in architecture school, we made a ton of architectural models, but once we graduated … no more. What happened to all the architectural models? Why did 90% of us quit making models? There’s a case to be made in the value of building … [Continue reading]
Do architects draw too much? As I wrap up my weekend, where I spent the entire time reviewing and redlining sheet after sheet of construction drawings, especially after putting in a 60-hour Monday through Friday work-week, I find myself thinking that … [Continue reading]
What is architecture? How do we define architecture as a profession, as a practice, as a concept? I’ve been talking a lot about this recently with colleagues, and I have seen a couple of posts in various forums recently on this topic. So I wanted to … [Continue reading]
