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Ep 148: Meetings are a Waste of Time

April 7, 2024 by Bob Borson 4 Comments

Ep 148: Meetings are a Waste of Time

You check the time and realize that you have 4 minutes before your next meeting. Maybe it’s an internal meeting, maybe clients are coming in. Is it in person or online? Depending on how you answer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Episodes, Observations, Office, Podcast

AIA24 Conference on Architecture & Design

April 4, 2024 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

AIA24 Conference on Architecture & Design

It's just about time for my yearly pilgrimage to AIA24, Conference on Architecture & Design - I've lost count of how many of these I've attended, and for the best of reasons. Taking place in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Graphics, Life in General

Ep 147: Draw Like an Architect

March 24, 2024 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Ep 147: Draw Like an Architect

How good do you need to be at drawing if you want to become an architect? Or … How can I be an architect – I can’t draw? These are questions that in one form or another, I hear a lot, especially from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Architectural Graphics - The Series, Architectural Sketches - The Series, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Graphics, Podcast, Sketching Tagged With: architectural sketching, Do you want to be an Architect, Graphics, Podcast, sketching

Ep 146: Ask the Show Spring 2024

March 10, 2024 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Ep 146: Ask the Show Spring 2024

We get asked a lot of good questions here on the show – they come up in the comment section, they are sent into our email inboxes, and some slide into our DM’s. Sometimes we reach out and ask people … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Design Studio, Do you want to be an Architect?, Education, Episodes, Life in General, Observations, Podcast Tagged With: architectural studio, being a part of the design process, career, design studio, Do you want to be an Architect, Podcast, traveling

Ep 145: Delegated Design

February 25, 2024 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Ep 145: Delegated Design

In the architecture and construction industry, delegated design refers to the process where certain design responsibilities are transferred from architects to contractors during the construction … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architects, Construction, Design, Episodes, Life in General Tagged With: being a part of the design process, Construction Process, Podcast

Ep144: Objects of Design

February 11, 2024 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Ep144: Objects of Design

From a design standpoint, some things are just cooler than other things – and these things don’t need to be justified to anyone because people either understand it or they don’t … but that doesn’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Design, Episodes, Life in General, Observations, Podcast Tagged With: being a part of the design process, design, Podcast

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