There are many things I do during a typical day – designing “stuff” is just one very small portion – but I still consider myself a designer more so than a project architect. Since I work at a smallish firm, everyone wears many hats and nobody has … [Continue reading]
There is a request that I receive a few times a week that I thought I would finally talk about in an effort to shed some light on a fairly taboo subject. Those requests typically start off something like this: "I have already designed my house but … [Continue reading]
Modern Design used to be about the mechanization of the process thereby making a thing affordable to the masses ... but that doesn't really seem to be the case anymore. With their clarity often confused with simplicity, modern houses require a far … [Continue reading]
If there is one moment I can look back and single out the moment when everything changed, it was February 22, 2010. That was the day I decided to write the post "Top Ten Reasons to be an Architect" and nothing has been the same for me ever … [Continue reading]
Fall is just around the corner and that means it's time for students around the country to return to their desk's at architecture school. For most, this time is a mixture of excitement and enthusiasm, while for others, it's a mixture of anxiety and … [Continue reading]
Architecture and Music ... they go together extremely well as music frequently fuels the creative process and there are few things I enjoy more than turning on some music and jamming out in the studio. Except I can't do that ... not really, because … [Continue reading]
