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024: Presentation Skills, Tips and Techniques

May 12, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Bob Borson preparing to give a presentation

Unlike most professions, architects are fairly accustomed to standing up in front of a group of people and speaking ... but that doesn't mean they like it (or even worse)  - that they are any good at doing it. The concern going through almost … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Career, Episodes, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, career, conversations, design studio, Podcast

Man versus Machine – Architectural Sketch Series

May 8, 2019 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Life of an Architect - Man versus Machine thumbnail

I'm currently in Chicago celebrating the 50th birthday of a good friend of mine. In fact, there are four of us here and we all know each other from our time together from the University of Texas School of Architecture. Evidence presented this weekend … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Architectural Sketches - The Series, Design, Graphics, Interior Design, Life in General, Materials and Products, Oak Grove, Sketching Tagged With: a day in the life, architectural sketching, architectural studio, architectural technology, design, design studio, Materials

023: The Fun Show

April 28, 2019 by Bob Borson 2 Comments

Bob Borson and Mike Buesing at Monument Valley

Sometimes bad things happen, and it impacts you in a way that you weren’t anticipating – takes you out of your normal head space. Since I don’t like feeling bad, we’re going to do something about it. Welcome to "The Fun Show". [Note: If you are … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Episodes, Life in General, Observations, Travel Tagged With: a day in the life, hypothetical, Podcast, Travel, traveling

Notre Dame Cathedral – A Tragic Fire

April 16, 2019 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Notre Dame Cathedral night view from the Seine 02 June 2010 photo by Bob Borson

Yesterday was April 15th, a Monday, and the day that the world-wide beloved Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire and suffered heartwrenching damage. I found about the fire from one of my co-workers shortly after the fire began and I ended up streaming … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Buildings, Life in General, Observations Tagged With: Architecture and Society, photography, Travel, what?

022: Residential Construction Costs

April 14, 2019 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

In the beginning, when you are starting to plan your budget for building a new house, residential construction costs are not that complicated unless you really want to make them that way. There are some general broad stroke pieces of information that … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Career, Construction, Contractors, Dallas Architecture, Episodes, Office Tagged With: architects office, Construction Process, contractors, Podcast, residential construction costs

Master Bathroom … Again

April 9, 2019 by Bob Borson 3 Comments

Master Bathroom Floorplan original

Apparently, I don't like myself very much. I am basing this on all the evidence I have on hand  ... and I use the word "evidence" because the master bathroom in my current home is a crime scene. Not an actual crime scene, (although I would not have … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: My House Tagged With: bathrooms, design, My House

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