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The Front Door of your House is Important

January 25, 2016 by Bob Borson 54 Comments

Off Center Pivot Entry Door Elevation

How often do you think about your front door? I bet it's not all that often ... and that's a pity because the front door to your house is important. Besides being the gateway to your home, it helps provide the first exclamation mark of the entry … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Construction, Design, Graphics, My Work Tagged With: Construction Process, design, details, drawing, Materials

Graphic Standards for Architectural Cabinetry

January 18, 2016 by Bob Borson 39 Comments

Millwork Graphic Standards

Architectural drawings serve the obvious purpose of conveying specific information in a linear and direct manner. I also believe that they serve the additional purpose of letting everyone know that I take my drawings seriously and they had better … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Graphics Tagged With: a day in the life, being a part of the design process, details, Graphics

New Year, New Adventures (That Might Kill Me)

January 11, 2016 by Bob Borson 25 Comments

Architect throwing a snowball

I am exactly where I want to be ... at least, that's what I tell my daughter. One of the neat side effects of being a parent is that I have a daughter that asks me a lot of questions and she will not accept "because I said so" or "that's just the way … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: ArchiTalks, My Work Tagged With: a day in the life, traveling

Did you really think this through? 2016

January 4, 2016 by Bob Borson 38 Comments

Pressure Cooker

The first Life of an Architect post of the new year ... no pressure. I typically hate writing the first post of a new year, it feels a little like that first sketch in the schematic design process - you know it isn't going to be any good but you have … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Blog, Graphics Tagged With: a day in the life, about bob, blog

What did you miss in 2015?

December 28, 2015 by Bob Borson 22 Comments

What Did You Mis?

Did you know that I wrote and published 66 articles this year on Life of an Architect? While that's a bit off my pace from the previous years, statistically speaking, there's still bound to be a few that are worth checking out. Unless you're me, or a … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Architects, Blog, Career, Do you want to be an Architect?, Graphics, My Work, Residential, Sketching Tagged With: Architecture School, blog, bob borson, Construction Observation, Construction Process, details

Technical Drawings

December 21, 2015 by Bob Borson 84 Comments

Modern House construction drawings

If you are the sort of person who likes to look at architectural drawings, this is your lucky day. At least I hope that after you read today's post you think this was your lucky day. I've decided that one area that I am hoping to focus on over the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Construction, Graphics, Modern House, My Work, Projects, Residential Tagged With: Construction Observation, Construction Process, design, details, Residential Architect

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