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Top Ten Reasons to be a Residential Architect

April 5, 2010 by Bob Borson 28 Comments

1. Personal relationships with clients Working on residential projects allows for a personal connection that simply doesn’t exist on commercial or civic projects. The distinction might be based purely on the fact that residential projects are not … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Career, Observations Tagged With: Residential Architect, Top Ten lists

Sketching out a design solution

April 1, 2010 by Bob Borson 12 Comments

I received an email asking if I would share details from some of my projects. While I bristle at the risk I might be exposing myself to, I remembered that I enjoy looking at details quite a bit, so I thought I would try to come up with something. … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: My Work Tagged With: details, sketches, sketching

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March 31, 2010 by 30 Comments

question marks

I have been thinking about what possible future topics I might cover - I even carry a moleskin sketchbook around with me now so when a topic strikes me - I can write it down. Actually, I am pretty sure that between the time I have the idea, to the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Blog, Life in General Tagged With: deadlines, topics

Some of my favorite things

March 30, 2010 by 17 Comments

And by my favorite things, I'm going to say that these are materials and products that I would like to use on my own house (yes, I am aware that if I used them all it would look like a student project but I might try anyways). Cor-ten … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Life in General, Materials and Products Tagged With: Materials

Top Ten Client Traits

March 29, 2010 by 23 Comments

There are clients I like and then there are clients I love. There are loads of reasons why but the best clients always seem to share some of the same characteristics. These reasons might seem obvious to some but in most cases, my favorite clients … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Life in General, Observations Tagged With: Top Ten lists

Architectural Fees…part two

March 25, 2010 by 52 Comments

Money

. This is the second installment of architectural fees, you can find the first installment where I talk about fees based on a percentage of construction, and the Myth of Price Gouging ... click here for more. Today we are talking about the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Architects, Career Tagged With: architects office, architectural fees

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