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024: Presentation Skills, Tips and Techniques

May 12, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

024: Presentation Skills, Tips and Techniques

Unlike most professions, architects are fairly accustomed to standing up in front of a group of people and speaking ... but that doesn't mean they like it (or even worse)  - that they are any good at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Episodes, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, career, conversations, design studio, Podcast

Man versus Machine – Architectural Sketch Series

May 8, 2019 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Man versus Machine – Architectural Sketch Series

I'm currently in Chicago celebrating the 50th birthday of a good friend of mine. In fact, there are four of us here and we all know each other from our time together from the University of Texas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architectural Sketches - The Series, Design, Graphics, Interior Design, Life in General, Materials and Products, Oak Grove, Sketching Tagged With: a day in the life, architectural sketching, architectural studio, architectural technology, design, design studio, Materials

023: The Fun Show

April 28, 2019 by Bob Borson 2 Comments

023: The Fun Show

Sometimes bad things happen, and it impacts you in a way that you weren’t anticipating – takes you out of your normal head space. Since I don’t like feeling bad, we’re going to do something about it. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Episodes, Life in General, Observations, Travel Tagged With: a day in the life, hypothetical, Podcast, Travel, traveling

Notre Dame Cathedral – A Tragic Fire

April 16, 2019 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Notre Dame Cathedral – A Tragic Fire

Yesterday was April 15th, a Monday, and the day that the world-wide beloved Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire and suffered heartwrenching damage. I found about the fire from one of my co-workers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buildings, Life in General, Observations Tagged With: Architecture and Society, photography, Travel, what?

022: Residential Construction Costs

April 14, 2019 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

022: Residential Construction Costs

In the beginning, when you are starting to plan your budget for building a new house, residential construction costs are not that complicated unless you really want to make them that way. There are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Construction, Contractors, Dallas Architecture, Episodes, Office Tagged With: architects office, Construction Process, contractors, Podcast, residential construction costs

Master Bathroom … Again

April 9, 2019 by Bob Borson 3 Comments

Master Bathroom … Again

Apparently, I don't like myself very much. I am basing this on all the evidence I have on hand  ... and I use the word "evidence" because the master bathroom in my current home is a crime scene. Not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: My House Tagged With: bathrooms, design, My House

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