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029: Architects Should Work Construction

July 21, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Construction Tools from Bob Borson

If I have one regret during my college education is that I never worked on a construction site. Once I graduated from college, I went straight to work in an architectural office, drawing up all sorts of stuff that I had literally never seen before in … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Career, Contractors, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Observations, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, advice, career, Construction Process, conversations

028: Social Media for Architects

July 7, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Search Engine Results for Bob Borson

Today’s episode is loosely based on a presentation I've given titled “Social Media  - The Good, The  Bad, and the Crazy” The thing with Social media is that there are a lot of people out there that hold themselves out as experts and if I am being … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Episodes, Life in General, Observations Tagged With: hypothetical, Podcast, social media

As-Built Drawing Adventure

July 2, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

drawing with existing measurements

If you are an architect, it's a pretty safe bet that at some point in your career you've had to go on site and collect some existing dimensions for a project. My career is now almost 30 years in the making and not only have I done this possibly … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: My Work, Observations, Office, Projects Tagged With: a day in the life, Do you want to be an Architect, great to work with architects, sketching

027: Is That Even Legal?

June 23, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Justice is Blind (photo by Don Sniegowski)

How much time have you spent thinking about the legal side of architecture?  If you are like most architects, you probably haven't spent enough time thinking about it. While it may not be the sexiest part of the architectural profession,  it is … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Career, Episodes, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, advice, architects office, career, Podcast

Small, Big, Really Small, and Just Right

June 19, 2019 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

paint samples on the wall

During construction, on every single project of my career, there is a conversation that I have with my clients ... and it has to do with the size of the rooms. At very predictable times during construction, I know that the clients will think a room … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Construction, Life in General, Oak Grove, Observations Tagged With: Construction Observation, conversations, scale

026: First Jobs

June 9, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Getting your first job

Pretty simple and straightforward sentence – “Your first architectural job is important.” Let me clarify that I’m not talking about summer jobs or internships … those don’t really count because they have a known shelf-life associated with them. No, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Career, Episodes, Life in General Tagged With: architects office, career, working

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