If you are an architectural student - or a young architecture school graduate - Architectural Portfolios are extremely important. While they are probably not as important as you think, they are far … [Read more...]
Here’s the Thing about Good Ideas
You never know when you are going to have a good idea - they can come at any moment, regardless of your current activity, or the convenience level of writing them down. Unfortunately, I am painfully … [Read more...]
What Does a Fellow Keep in his Drawers?
Now that I am an AIA Fellow and I've officially hit the big time, people are continually stopping me everywhere I go and asking me, "O Supreme Leader, now that thou hast hit the bigeth league, couldst … [Read more...]
My Captive Audience
Other than the Men's toilet room, my desk is the furthest point in our office. Since I take full responsibility for the layout of my office, I am going to confess to you that I wanted my desk in the … [Read more...]
Then and Now – Architectural Design or Accounting
On my next birthday, I will celebrate 49 successful years of surviving my yearly journey around a 1.392 million kilometer ball of hot plasma that burns at a temperature exceeding 10,340°F ... more … [Read more...]
There are no stupid questions
Some questions, as soon as I become aware of them, sit in the front of my brain and simply won't go away until I do something about them. In this case, the question I have been thinking about for the … [Read more...]