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Architectural Redlines on an iPad

February 14, 2022 by Bob Borson 2 Comments

Architectural Redlines on an iPad

On and off for the last two weeks, I have been reviewing and redlining drawings for one of our residential projects. I wrote about this process a few weeks ago in a post titled Design Process - … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Architectural Sketches - The Series, Design, Design Studio, Graphics, My Work, Residential, Sketching Tagged With: a day in the life, architectural sketching, design studio, Graphics, Residential Architect, sketching

Architects Working with Consultants

February 10, 2022 by Andrew Hawkins 2 Comments

Architects Working with Consultants

When architects work with consultants, how does that process operate? How many consultants are there on any given project? Well, that answer can vary widely by project type. Since this was a recently … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Andrew H, Architects, Career, Design, Life in General, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, Architects, career, design, Practice, Profession

EP 092: The Top 10 Reasons to be an Architect

January 23, 2022 by Bob Borson 3 Comments

EP 092: The Top 10 Reasons to be an Architect

The Top 10 Reasons to be an Architect is a good topic to discuss on an architecturally themed podcast and interestingly enough, this is the very topic that put the Life of an Architect website on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Observations, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, career, Do you want to be an Architect, Podcast, Residential Architect, Top Ten lists

Objectives for 2022

January 3, 2022 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Objectives for 2022

I can enthusiastically announce here after a prolonged break that I am not dead. I hope this comes as a bit of positive news to kick off your 2022 (I'm pretty happy about it) but there was a time in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Holidays, Life in General, Travel Tagged With: a day in the life, about bob, bob borson, conversations, Podcast, traveling, Writing a blog

090: Architectural Graphics

December 12, 2021 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

090: Architectural Graphics

Graphics are the language that architects use to communicate intent to the people we serve. We draw to explain our designs, we draw to explain what material we want to use, we draw to articulate how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Architectural Graphics - The Series, Episodes, Graphics, Life in General, Podcast Tagged With: Architects, Architecture School, design, Graphics, Podcast

Ep 087: Architectural Model Making

October 31, 2021 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Ep 087: Architectural Model Making

When we were all in architecture school, we made a ton of architectural models, but once we graduated … no more. What happened to all the architectural models? Why did 90% of us quit making models? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Architecture School, Career, Design Studio, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Memories from Studio, Podcast Tagged With: architects office, architectural studio, Architecture School, design, design studio, Do you want to be an Architect, Materials, Podcast, Residential Architect

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