How hard is it to do work for your friends? How has shifting from employee to employer changed the way you approach projects? If you could drastically change one thing about architecture school, what … [Read more...]
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...]
Design Process – Redlines
There are a few things that I know with absolute certainty ... Leprechauns are jerks, people will tell me if I don't call out the vapor barrier in my sketches, and seeing redlines will cause PTSD. I … [Read more...]
Teaching Statement for Architecture
I am working on a project that I have never completed in my career: a teaching statement for architecture. This is a new challenge for me, but I am working my way through to complete it. Now I have … [Read more...]
Studio Lessons 101: Architectural Resolution
So I have been having conversations with my colleagues about this idea of what I will call Architectural Resolution. This is not exactly about the image resolution like in pixels or dots, but I could … [Read more...]
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...]