The designation between house and home - is it semantics or is there a difference. Can I as "the architect" influence the difference one way or another?According to Merriam Webster:house (n): … [Read more...]
What Does a Fellow Keep in his Drawers?
Now that I am an AIA Fellow and I've officially hit the big time, people are continually stopping me everywhere I go and asking me, "O Supreme Leader, now that thou hast hit the bigeth league, couldst … [Read more...]
How do you eat a Whale?
2017 has started and I am already trying to decide what it is I am supposed to be doing. Not in "Why I am I Here?" existential way, but more in the "I need to change out the filters at the blower unit … [Read more...]
What did you miss in 2016? The Best from Life of an Architect
The end of the year is almost upon us and it is time to reflect back on last year - that a look at what worked, and what didn't. Did you know I wrote 48 articles for this site last year? In the seven … [Read more...]
What to Get an Architect for Christmas (2016)
While researching potential gift ideas for this year's 7th Annual What to Get an Architect for Christmas, I found a lot of lists that were full of really icky and terrible gift ideas that were clearly … [Read more...]
Then and Now – Architectural Design or Accounting
On my next birthday, I will celebrate 49 successful years of surviving my yearly journey around a 1.392 million kilometer ball of hot plasma that burns at a temperature exceeding 10,340°F ... more … [Read more...]