A Modern List of Dallas Texas
19 Jul 2011
If you are in Dallas and want to know where cool, groovy modern people go to do modern things … here is the list compiled by the ultimate hipsters at Build llc – Andrew van Leeuwen and Kevin Eckert
Guest post
Oh Yeah – It’s Party Week!
18 Jul 2011
Sitting in at Life of an Architect this week are four amazing bloggers who will entertain and amaze you with their humor and architectural genius
Shipping Containers – a design primer
7 Feb 2011
Over the last couple of months I’ve spent a bit of time thinking about and designing with used shipping containers as building blocks for single family homes. This is a niche in architecture that has been getting a lot of press on sites
Better Body by Design
12 Oct 2010
What happens to poor old Bob and his colleagues? They get weak abs, rounded shoulders and upper backs, and are at increased risk for metabolic syndrome from all that sitting.
The Brick House Goes Thrifting
23 Sep 2010
My name is Morgan, I edit a blog called The Brick House which chronicles the renovation of our less than architecturally interesting cement brick house located in the middle of a retirement community in Southern California. No, it’s not Palm Springs -
Do all architects lead glamorous lives?
9 Sep 2010
‘Do all architects lead glamorous lives?’. You certainly would think so if you believed Hollywood. Seems like every other movie or tv show has an architect as the lead character.
Greene & Greene and Modernism: Complete Perfection
16 Aug 2010
For those of you not familiar with Greene & Greene, the thumbnail sketch goes something like this. Born in Cincinnati, raised in St. Louis and educated in Boston, they established a practice in Pasadena in 1894. Their work in the early years was eclectic and in prevailing styles, most of which were better suited to the Midwest and East with with they were familiar than to their adopted home.
Rules for an Architect’s Blog
8 Jun 2010
In late 2006, nine months after founding our small architecture firm, we started a blog on our website as a place to add news about the firm. Business blogging had been popular for years, but few architects (such late adopters) had them. We started blogging anyway, in spite of the fact that other architects weren’t doing it. To try something new
Getting More From Your Twitter Experience
4 Jun 2010
URL shorteners are a must when you’re trying to fit a link into 140 characters – but don’t just use a shortener for the sake of making a smaller URL. Find a service that provides metrics for your link, so you can see how many people are clicking on it. That’s why bit.ly is my URL shortener of choice – the tracking features are great.
Ignorance really is bliss
3 Jun 2010
Today’s guest post is written by none other than my better half – Michelle, my wife of 15 years. Apparently people wanted to know what it was like being married to an architect.
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