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Studio Lessons 101: Architecture is about Words

March 5, 2020 by Andrew Hawkins 3 Comments

Studio Lessons 101: Architecture is about Words

Architecture is about words as much as images. Let that sink in for just a moment … I say this after a week of mid-term and project reviews in my department. The reason I say such a thing is quite … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Andrew H, Architects, Life in General, Studio Lessons 101 Tagged With: architectural studio, Architecture School, design, design studio, Studio Lessons 101

Keeping Up with Projects

January 13, 2020 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Keeping Up with Projects

I don't write many of these sorts of posts ... they are painful to put together even though I am happy enough to reflect upon the creative process while trying to evaluate if things turned out as good … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buildings, Dallas Architecture, Do you want to be an Architect?, Graphics, Life in General, Oak Grove Tagged With: a day in the life, career, design, details

Motherflipping Tile Joints

December 17, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Motherflipping Tile Joints

Normally I spend about 0.54788716 seconds coming up with the titles to the articles I write, with the exception of today. I agonized on it for almost 10 minutes ... I will acknowledge … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Construction, Interior Design, Life in General, Materials and Products, My House Tagged With: Construction Observation, Construction Process, design, details, modern house, My House, Products

Steel Stair Panels – Guardrails and Handrails

October 7, 2019 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Steel Stair Panels – Guardrails and Handrails

"Stairapalooza" might not be the best word for it but guardrailapalooza definitely isn't any better ... Handrailapalooza? Nope, that's not it either, but that's really what today's post is all about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architectural Graphics - The Series, Construction, Design, Graphics, Oak Grove Tagged With: design, details, Graphics, Materials

Architectural Sketch Series: Schematic Design

August 13, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Architectural Sketch Series: Schematic Design

In a moment of absolute madness, I decided to write today's post on schematic design and populate it with 11(!?!) schematic design sketches - basically what amounts to a digital summarization of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architectural Sketches - The Series, Design, Graphics, Residential, Sketching Tagged With: architectural sketching, design, Graphics, Modern Architecture, Residential Architect, sketching

Oculus and Skylights

July 29, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Oculus and Skylights

Unless you've been living under a rock (or you are anything other than another architect who reads this site), you would know that there are few things I enjoy in a project as much as a proper oculus. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Design, Graphics, My Work Tagged With: Construction Observation, design, details

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