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Being an Architect is Hell

June 29, 2015 by Bob Borson 64 Comments

Being an Architect is Hell

This was a day, just like any other day. I was minding my own business when I was visually assaulted by my hotel shower. (That's right ... assaulted.) For most people, they probably wouldn't have even noticed. They would have taken their shower and … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Do you want to be an Architect?, Life in General, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, conversations

Master Shower Shall Sucketh No Longer

June 22, 2015 by Bob Borson 40 Comments

Shower Elevation graphic

I don't believe I have ever been called a false prophet, mostly because I don't think I've ever been called anything that included the word "prophet" in it. However, this is the 3rd time I have come on the site here and talked about how verily … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Graphics, My House

heard around the architectural studio #019

June 19, 2015 by Bob Borson 19 Comments

Do Not Disturb the Architect

  Blob: Unless someone is on fire, don't bother me.  In fact, unless I'm on fire, don't bother me.     There are moments when you have to get a lot of work done and need to be left alone ... yet THIS is the time that … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Heard around the architectural studio Tagged With: quotes, the studio

Students and Design Contests

June 18, 2015 by Bob Borson 7 Comments

Jackie Vargas Kitchen to Breakfast Room thumbnail Sketch

If there is a topic in the design world that every designer unilaterally has an opinion on - its design contests. From my standpoint, I am a fan of contests where the goal of the contests falls in to one of two categories: Charitable - like the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Kitchen, Residential, SZW Kitchen Design Contest Tagged With: Design Competition, kitchens, SubZero and Wolf, SZW

You Should Design Everything

June 15, 2015 by Bob Borson 41 Comments

Life of an Architect Playhouse Trophy Concept sketch thumbnail

If you consider yourself a designer, you should design everything. 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. To be … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Competition, Design, Graphics, Playhouse Competition 2015, Sketching Tagged With: a day in the life, design, Playhouse Competition, sketching

You Can’t Eat Your House and Have it Too

June 8, 2015 by Bob Borson 28 Comments

House Modern Light Shelf

Did you know you can't eat your house and have it too? That sentence doesn't make a lot of sense to anybody most people but it's a play on the wildly (and incorrectly) stated phrase "You can't have your cake and eat it too."  The way that phrase … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Construction, Design, Modern House, My Work Tagged With: Dallas Architecture, KHouse Modern, Modern Architecture, modern house

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