How hard is it to do work for your friends? How has shifting from employee to employer changed the way you approach projects? If you could drastically change one thing about architecture school, what would it be? All this and more on today’s episode … [Continue reading]
On and off for the last two weeks, I have been reviewing and redlining drawings for one of our residential projects. I wrote about this process a few weeks ago in a post titled Design Process - Redlines and the focus was on the design process and … [Continue reading]
When architects work with consultants, how does that process operate? How many consultants are there on any given project? Well, that answer can vary widely by project type. Since this was a recently submitted question, I thought I would spend some … [Continue reading]
Let’s admit it – telling someone you are an architect is pretty cool because whether or not they understand what that means or what the job entails. Regardless of the accuracy of information those people bring to the conversation, being an architect … [Continue reading]
There are a few things that I know with absolute certainty ... Leprechauns are jerks, people will tell me if I don't call out the vapor barrier in my sketches, and seeing redlines will cause PTSD. I have talked about redlines a handful of times and … [Continue reading]
Well, this is not a New Year’s resolution post, it is a new year post of my 2022 proposed reading list. For the past few years, at the beginning of each year, I try to choose a stack of books that I plan to read in the upcoming year. So I wanted to … [Continue reading]
