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Ep 157: Project Constraints

August 11, 2024 by Bob Borson 2 Comments

Ep 157: Project Constraints

You sit down at your desk, you turn your computer on, maybe you sharpen your pencils, you lay out your rolls of trace and your sharpie pens – whatever your creative process - and you are about to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Contractors, Episodes, Observations, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, architectural studio, Construction Process, design, Podcast, Residential Architect

EP 143: Architectural Drawings: Excessive or Essential

January 28, 2024 by Bob Borson 3 Comments

EP 143: Architectural Drawings: Excessive or Essential

Today we are focusing on drawings and the question that first comes to mind is to talk about what we draw, why we draw it, and who we draw it for and why that impacts all other considerations.  With … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Construction, Contractors, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Graphics, Observations, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, Construction Observation, Construction Process, drawing

Ep 108: Ask the Show (Fall 2022)

September 5, 2022 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Ep 108: Ask the Show (Fall 2022)

How much drafting does a fully licensed architect do? What is something you learned in the industry that you hadn’t been taught in school? Are you as condescending to your employees as your redlines … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Architects, Architecture School, Career, Contractors, Design Studio, Do you want to be an Architect?, Education, Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, Architects, architects office, architectural studio, Architecture School, career, Do you want to be an Architect, Podcast

Ep 99: Construction Drawings

May 1, 2022 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Ep 99: Construction Drawings

A subject matter that we are always dancing around is the creation and preparation of drawings. Fundamentally and at their essence, drawings are at the core of what architects do and they allow us to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Architectural Graphics - The Series, Construction, Contractors, Episodes, Podcast, Residential Tagged With: conversations, Do you want to be an Architect, Podcast, Residential Architect

Ep 074: Architectural Memories that Matter

May 2, 2021 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Ep 074: Architectural Memories that Matter

There are a handful of moments in a person’s professional life that really matter, and sometimes we don’t recognize how important those moments are until several years later. I know that I have a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Contractors, Episodes, Heard around the architectural studio, Life in General, Memories from Studio, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, architectural studio, career, conversations, design studio, Podcast

Ep 069: Better Faster Cheaper

February 21, 2021 by Bob Borson 3 Comments

Ep 069: Better Faster Cheaper

We have all heard the phrase “Better, Faster, Cheaper, you can have any 2” but is that actually true? … Yes, of course, that’s true, but we are going to talk about it anyways because this is really a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Contractors, Design Studio, Education, Episodes, Observations Tagged With: architects office, architectural studio, Architecture and Society, conversations, Podcast

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