Does anybody remember "mixtapes"? For those of you born after 1995, mixtapes were traditionally self-assembled arrangements of songs onto cassette tapes. I had hundreds of them and armed with my Sony … [Read more...]
What did you miss in 2015?
Did you know that I wrote and published 66 articles this year on Life of an Architect? While that's a bit off my pace from the previous years, statistically speaking, there's still bound to be a few … [Read more...]
How to survive Architectural School Juries
Let's pretend that you are in architecture school - maybe you just started, maybe you've been there for a while - I'm not sure that it matters for today's discussion. The "Architectural School … [Read more...]
Happiness and Being an Architect
Two simple sentences could be used to respond to about 1/3rd of all the emails I receive: "If studying to become an architect is making you miserable, don't be one." "If being an … [Read more...]
Architecture in the Real World … sorta
Pull up a chair, order your favorite drink, and let me tell you about architecture in the "real " world. I thought I would try to make this an upbeat article but as I sit down to write it, I'm not so … [Read more...]
Architecture and Math
If you ever thought about being an architect but thought you couldn't handle the math, you aren't alone. At parties across the land, as soon as someone finds out there is an architect in the crowd, … [Read more...]