As an architect, every space I walk in to, I look at … intensely. I scrutinize, evaluate, process, and redesign. Every. Single. Space. There are times when I wish this didn’t happen … most of the time … [Read more...]
013: What to Get an Architect for Christmas [2018]
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This is the 9th annual and highly anticipated What to Get an Architect for Christmas gift guide. It's hard for me to process that when I wrote the very first gift guide back in 2010 that this would … [Read more...]
011: An Architect’s Salary
It was only a matter of time before I once again tackled the topic of an architect's salary. This is actually the fourth post I've prepared on the subject, but I haven't talked about it since January … [Read more...]
008: Top Ten Reasons to be an Architect
If there is one moment I can look back and single out the moment when everything changed, it was February 22, 2010. That was the day I decided to write the post "Top Ten Reasons to be an Architect" … [Read more...]
Modern Wood Rainscreen
There is something about a clean and simple wood "screen" that is suspended off the face of the wall that is at the same time both modern and refreshing. There are all sorts of tricks and benefits … [Read more...]
Being an Architect is Hell – The Ongoing Descent
Being an architect is hell for any countless number of reasons, but one of the most prevalent reasons is that architects everywhere are assaulted visually on a daily basis by the most mundane of … [Read more...]