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...]
Architecture and The Art of Getting it Wrong
Architecture is not a trade, it's a craft ... and it normally takes years of practice before you start to routinely exist in the delicate balance between programming requirements and artistic … [Read more...]
Architects and the AIA
If you receive any sort of professional correspondence from me, you will see three letters after my name ... Robert Borson, AIA The acronym "AIA" stands for the American Institute of Architects, … [Read more...]