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The Best Thing on my Desk

April 6, 2020 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

The Best Thing on my Desk

Making the change from a permanent desk at the office to a work-from-home desk requires a bit of transition unless you already work from home. For the most part, I'm not talking about those people in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life in General, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, design, design studio, desk, office

006: Inside an Architect’s Office

August 19, 2018 by Bob Borson 4 Comments

006: Inside an Architect’s Office

Work environments are important – they tell visitors a lot about what to expect from the place they are visiting. I almost always enjoy visiting other architects office because it seems like there is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Episodes Tagged With: architects office, desk, office, Podcast, tools of the trade

An Architect’s tool bag

August 20, 2012 by Bob Borson 111 Comments

An Architect’s tool bag

Architects have their own tools of the trade - many of which are each worthy of getting their own individual attention - but today I felt like going "big-picture" on you. All of the items I list today … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architects, Do you want to be an Architect?, Materials and Products Tagged With: a day in the life, Architects, architects office, architectural technology, desk, Do you want to be an Architect

Architecture Student Work Desks

March 15, 2012 by Bob Borson 30 Comments

Architecture Student Work Desks

Architecture studios in college have changed a lot over the last two decades - for the most part, computers and mouse pads have replaced Mayline parallel bars, borco table covers and drafting eraser … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architects, Do you want to be an Architect?, Observations Tagged With: Architecture School, design studio, desk, Do you want to be an Architect

An Architect’s Desk

September 20, 2011 by Bob Borson 61 Comments

An Architect’s Desk

The picture below is of my old office ... and the reason I have this picture is that I was experimenting with a recently acquired wide angle lens and wondered how much of this small room could I get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life in General Tagged With: architects office, desk, Do you want to be an Architect

Who wants to be relevant?

January 14, 2010 by 17 Comments

Who wants to be relevant?

Technology is cool. I am sitting at my desk looking at the treasured relics of my architectural ancestors - rolls of sketch paper, at least 15 scales (or rulers), and a stack of orange triangles. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architects, Career Tagged With: architects office, architectural technology, desk

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