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The Best Thing on my Desk

April 6, 2020 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Eric Reinholdt - Best Thing on my Desk

Making the change from a permanent desk at the office to a work-from-home desk requires a bit of transition unless you already work from home. For the most part, I'm not talking about those people in today's post. When it was decided that my office … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Life in General, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, design, design studio, desk, office

What Architects Should Watch: Shelter in Place Edition

April 2, 2020 by Andrew Hawkins 3 Comments

What to Watch for Creativity

I thought I’d craft a list of films, documentaries, and videos for viewing while there is so much extra time at home. Now I am not trying to provide additional distractions, but I think that in times like this everyone may want some additional … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Andrew H, Architects, Design, Life in General Tagged With: Architects, architectural studio, Architecture and Society, design

046: Working From Home

March 29, 2020 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Modern Home Office Designs

A lot can happen in just a few weeks. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, business as usual is anything but … and Andrew and I felt like we should interrupt our regularly scheduled podcast to take some time and talk about working from home – something that we … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Episodes, Life in General, Office, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, architectural technology, design studio, Podcast

Sketching is Hard

March 24, 2020 by Bob Borson 2 Comments

Architectural detail and elevation sketches by Bob Borson 01

If you are like me, an architect currently working from home and hating it as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic, then I will also assume that like me you will find that your design flow/process has been slightly disrupted. For example - I … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Architectural Sketches - The Series, Graphics, Life in General, Observations, Sketching Tagged With: career, drawing, schematic design, sketching

Moving to a Virtual Design Studio?

March 20, 2020 by Andrew Hawkins Leave a Comment

Silent Studios

So as the nation falls into a full-on experiment in quarantine and social distancing, everyone is having their typical life cycles interrupted. My life is no different; I am going through the process of converting my current two design studios at … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Andrew H, Architects, Design, Life in General Tagged With: Architects, Architecture School, design, design studio

045: Documenting Architecture

March 15, 2020 by Andrew Hawkins 2 Comments

Modern House Drawings Bob Borson A501

So you sitting at your desk, you’ve got your project up on the monitor and you are in the zone and crushing it … but what does that even look like? The process of preparing drawings has evolved from ā€œWhat do we need to do to ā€œWhat can’t we do?ā€ In … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Architectural Graphics - The Series, Episodes, Graphics, Office, Podcast Tagged With: architects office, construction drawings, details, drawing, Episodes, Podcast, standards

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