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Business Development and Social Media

August 30, 2021 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Business Development and Social Media

On the chance that you've been asleep for the last 10 years,  more and more architects are turning to social media and platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn to demonstrate their design … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Design, Graphics, Hill Haus, My Work, Projects, Residential Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, Architecture and Society, career, design, Graphics, Modern Architecture, Residential Architect

Episode 082: The Side Hustle

August 22, 2021 by Bob Borson 4 Comments

Episode 082: The Side Hustle

It seems that everybody these days has a side hustle – a means in which you can leverage your creative genius into an additional stream of revenue to help you makes ends meet between paychecks. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Episodes, Life in General, Observations, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, career, Do you want to be an Architect, Podcast

Happy Hour at the Borson House

July 20, 2021 by Bob Borson 2 Comments

Happy Hour at the Borson House

Whew. That's a good way to describe my weekend once I got to 2:00 pm on Sunday. The last several months - and particularly the last few weeks - have been very busy and to be frank, fairly stressful. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Life in General, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, bob borson, recipe

Ep 079: Designing a House

July 11, 2021 by Bob Borson 3 Comments

Ep 079: Designing a House

Designing a house is easy, anybody can do it … at least that’s what most people think. The reality is that there are literally thousands of nuances that when all added up make the difference between a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Design, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Observations, Podcast, Residential Tagged With: a day in the life, architectural studio, design, design studio, Podcast, Residential Architect

Ep 078: Redlines

June 27, 2021 by Bob Borson 3 Comments

Ep 078: Redlines

“Redlines” is the word used in an architectural office to reference the red ink that is typically used to mark up corrections that need to be made on architectural drawings. Is this phrase outdated? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Career, Design, Design Studio, Episodes, Graphics, Office, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, architectural studio, design, design studio, details, Graphics, Podcast, sketching

Virtual Conventions??

June 17, 2021 by Andrew Hawkins 2 Comments

Virtual Conventions??

I am not certain that virtual conventions are really worthwhile. That may be a controversial statement, but I think I can stand by it even in a post-pandemic world. Today marks the start of the AIA … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Andrew H, Architects, Career, Life in General Tagged With: a day in the life, Architects, career, Conventions, Travel, Virtual

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