There is a secret that all attentive architects know: Don’t give your client what they ask for, give them what they need. Better yet, have them be a part of the design process. In order to create … [Read more...]
Vegetables or Dessert?
There are two important pieces of information that are floating around my head that are seemingly at odds with one another: "Sooner or later, you will need to eat your vegetables" and "Eat your … [Read more...]
Architectural Studio – 4 Questions
A large percentage of the articles I write on this site are the result of receiving the same sorts of questions over and over again. Rather than send out a half-baked, off the top of my head response, … [Read more...]
Make Your Own Opportunities
Young architectural interns are awesome … full of promise and possibility. I’ve been around the architectural block more times than I care to admit at this stage of my career and I have learned a few … [Read more...]
Architectural Job Starter Kit
March is knocking on the door so that means one thing in an architectural office: the "summer interns" and freshly minted architectural graduates are ... well, knocking on the door. So I thought I … [Read more...]
Surviving Architecture School
Despite what you might hear, architecture school is terrific. I know that it isn't easy and I can still remember moments of crippling panic as I looked around the studio during my presentation. Fast … [Read more...]