I know that not everyone who visits me here at Life of an Architect celebrates the 4th of July (in fact, it's barely over half - 52.65%) but since I do, I thought I would take the time to wish … [Read more...]
Pencils and Architects
The other day I was attempting to clean up my desk a bit and I moved a very large stack of drawings that was laying on top of about 50,000 other things. As I moved the drawings, a bunch of pen's, … [Read more...]
Moving a large tree … feels good
Moving a tree isn't something that a lot of people think about ... which is a shame. We have a commercial job we are working one that has four really magnificent trees on site, the youngest is over a … [Read more...]
John Ruskin:
Common Law of Business Balance
I stumbled upon a quote the other day that really resonated with me - although I had thought through it many times before, I hadn't ever heard or read it put so succinctly. It is called "The Common … [Read more...]
Top 10 Things you’ll never hear an Architect say … in Turkish?
There is a lot of foolishness that goes on here at Life of an Architect, let's face it - I'm not talking about anything really important and while I take what I do pretty seriously, I always try and … [Read more...]
Architects and Hobbies
Architects don't have hobbies, at least most of the ones I know don't have one. I haven't spent the time to do any real research, just basing this on what I know and from personal experience. So … [Read more...]