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2012 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design – the ‘Dugout’

June 17, 2012 by Bob Borson 18 Comments

2012 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design - the 'Dugout'

So here it is the 2012 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design [cue fanfare] The 'Dugout' . In case you didn't get it from the "dugout" name, this years playhouse is themed after a major league baseball dugout. If you're not a baseball fan, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Competition, My Work, Playhouses Tagged With: 3-D modeling, Architecture and Society, CASA, Playhouse Competition, playhouses, sketchup

Top 10 Things you’ll never hear an Architect say … in Turkish?

June 14, 2012 by Bob Borson 12 Comments

Map of Turkey

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 have fun while I go about my business. There have … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Life in General Tagged With: Architects, Architecture and Society, career, design studio, Top Ten lists

Modern Stairs – the timeline

June 11, 2012 by Bob Borson 54 Comments

modern stairs - mostly done

Today I thought it would be interesting to look at the timeline for the modern stairs we put in at our modern project that is wrapping up. There are a bunch of posts that I am thinking about putting together but the stairs have got to come first … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Materials and Products, Modern House, My Work Tagged With: concrete, Construction Observation, Construction Process, details, Materials, plans, Sale Street

Weekend Adventure in So-Cal

June 4, 2012 by Bob Borson 11 Comments

Nick in a pregnancy suit

I went to Southern California last week on a working holiday to visit the Bosch Experience and Design Center to take a look at  Bosch appliances and BLANCO sinks and faucets. These trips are really fun but there is typically a lot of work involved. … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Materials and Products, Travel Tagged With: a day in the life, being a part of the design process, Products, social media, traveling

European Design for the Modern Kitchen

May 29, 2012 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

. Soon I will be flying off to California to take part in a panel discussion titled "Design Trends for the Modern Kitchen" with Bosch, BLANCO and  a group of heavy-hitters from DWELL magazine.  I don't make time to go on many work related trips … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Blog, Materials and Products Tagged With: a day in the life, being a part of the design process, Products, social media, traveling

Architects and Hobbies

May 28, 2012 by Bob Borson 55 Comments

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 why don't architects have hobbies? Inquiring minds … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Life in General Tagged With: a day in the life, Architects

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