I have mentally been an architect my entire life. When I tell people who I knew I wanted to be an architect by the time I was 5 years old, they think how lucky that must have been! How great it must be to have a singular drive and focus towards a … [Continue reading]
I am sitting here on the couch with the football game on ... I was planning on tackling my email inbox. After reading through the first 10 or so all asking for some sort of advice on being an architect I thought I would just write a few posts on the … [Continue reading]
You've probably heard the expression "the greatest thing since sliced bread" - right? Everybody has this wrong, it should be "the greatest thing since Crayola crayons". . . There are few things as entrenched in the experience of being a child as … [Continue reading]
Today I am participating in an exercise where you write your own obituary. This is a topic provided by a group of really good friends and fellow blog writers where we all select a topic and write on that topic all on the same day. I didn't really … [Continue reading]
Things used to be much more simple - but that doesn't mean they were better ... but in this case it does. During the holiday break, I had some time to continue flipping through all the old Architectural Forum magazines we acquired and I found a real … [Continue reading]
This is the first post for 2011 - no pressure to start the year off with a good one right? While this is not the one year anniversary for Life of an Architect, I am going to take a look at how my site performed last year. I can remember when I … [Continue reading]
