If you consider yourself a designer, you should design everything. There are many things I do during a typical day – designing “stuff” is just one very small portion – but I still consider myself a … [Read more...]
You Can’t Eat Your House and Have it Too
Did you know you can't eat your house and have it too? That sentence doesn't make a lot of sense to anybody most people but it's a play on the wildly (and incorrectly) stated phrase "You can't have … [Read more...]
Movie Theater Playhouse – The Construction Drawings
The design process starts simply enough - an observation, a challenge, a problem - it's an opportunity to make something ... or maybe it's just making something better. See a need, fill a need. … [Read more...]
Architectural Scale Figures
Prediction - if you can't get a handle on scale and proportion, you are going to make for a bad architect (at least one that considers themselves a designer). One of the very most important skill sets … [Read more...]
2015 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition – The Winners
On Friday, May 1st - 6 highly focused and dedicated judges walked in to my home with the monumental task of selecting the winners of the 4th Annual Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition. … [Read more...]
Life of an Architect – Best of 2014
While 2014 isn't technically over yet, it isn't going to stop me [cause I do what I want] from looking back at all the articles I wrote over the year to see which ones represented the very best that … [Read more...]