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What to get an Architect for Christmas 2011

December 8, 2011 by Bob Borson 39 Comments

Reindeer cartoon sketch

Let's see ... 400 square feet of glass mosaic tile, labor to install, elongated 1 piece toilet, large soaking bathtub, 20 hours plumber labor, 60 hours carpenter labor, tape, bed and texture ... wait a minute, that's my Christmas list!! . Ho Ho … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Architects, Life in General, Materials and Products Tagged With: Architects, Gifts, Products, t-shirts

Say what you mean, mean what you say

December 6, 2011 by Bob Borson 23 Comments

Lemon Chess Pie

The message today is about taking a deeper and sometimes a second or third look at what appears to be an everyday common object, occurrence, or in my example, a phrase. All of a sudden, something you never really paid much attention to is everywhere … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Career, Life in General, Observations Tagged With: career, conversations, Let's Blog Off

Small Residential Projects

December 5, 2011 by Bob Borson 22 Comments

Small Residential Projects

Not every residential project I work on as an architect is large with an even larger budget - that just happens to be the case lately and where I find my role in the office. Since smaller projects with smaller budgets tend to be less complicated, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: My Work Tagged With: being a part of the design process, design, great to work with architects, modern house, Residential Architect, sketching, sketchup

How to build a shower that won’t leak – Products

December 1, 2011 by Bob Borson 55 Comments

Building a proper shower starts with specifying the right sort of products. Because there are all sorts of sites out there that tell you how to build a shower (and since I don't build these myself), I am going to stick with something those other … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Materials and Products, My Work Tagged With: Materials, Products, Sale Street

Josef Albers – Homage to the Square

November 29, 2011 by Bob Borson 11 Comments

. Did you know that Josef Albers (March 19, 1888 – March 25, 1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: My House Tagged With: art, My House

How much money does an architect make?

November 28, 2011 by Bob Borson 79 Comments

I get plenty of emails asking questions here at Life of an Architect - and over the last 12 months an increasing amount of them are either from students or associate/ intern level architects ... and this is how most of them look: . Dear Bob @ … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Career, Do you want to be an Architect? Tagged With: Architects salary, career

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