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You Should Design Everything

June 15, 2015 by Bob Borson 41 Comments

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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

3 Words: Are. Blogs. Important.

June 4, 2015 by Bob Borson 63 Comments

Writting a blog from your parents basement

If I asked you to tell me your favorite 3 words, do you know what they would be, or would this be a "I'll get back you you" situation? I certainly don't have three favorite words - who does? The irony of this is that I am the one who came up with … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: ArchiTalks, Blog, Career Tagged With: ArchiTalks, blog, conversations

Putting in the Work

June 1, 2015 by Bob Borson 27 Comments

baseball in the dirt

It's been an interesting couple of weeks - at least I think interesting is the right word for it. Not good, not bad ... a bit exhausting to be honest. But that's life, right? Work, work, work, seems like that's just about all I've been doing lately. … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Career, Life in General Tagged With: a day in the life, career, conversations

Movie Theater Playhouse – The Construction Drawings

May 26, 2015 by Bob Borson 17 Comments

Movie Theater Concept Sketch from Bob Borson thumbnail

The design process starts simply enough - an observation, a challenge, a problem - it's an opportunity to make something ... or maybe it's just making something better. See a need, fill a need. Make something. Make something better. That's how … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Design, Graphics, My Work, Playhouses Tagged With: Architecture and Society, CASA, design, details, playhouses

Convention Wife

May 21, 2015 by Bob Borson 27 Comments

Bob Borson and Andrew Hawkins

I was in Atlanta last week attending the 2015 American Institute of Architects National Convention. I arrived on Tuesday afternoon and I left that next Sunday morning - essentially spending 4 full days surrounded by people just like me (no offense to … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Life in General, Travel Tagged With: a day in the life, what?

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