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045: Documenting Architecture

March 15, 2020 by Andrew Hawkins 2 Comments

045: Documenting Architecture

So you sitting at your desk, you’ve got your project up on the monitor and you are in the zone and crushing it … but what does that even look like? The process of preparing drawings has evolved from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architectural Graphics - The Series, Episodes, Graphics, Office, Podcast Tagged With: architects office, construction drawings, details, drawing, Episodes, Podcast, standards

For Architects, Patience is Definitely a Virtue

February 24, 2020 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

For Architects, Patience is Definitely a Virtue

Most architects have to learn patience over the course of their career, it's actually one architectural character trait that I always think about but rarely bring up because it always falls into the … [Read more...]

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

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

Sketching Details

November 4, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Sketching Details

It's not a secret - or at least it shouldn't be much of one. Architects should be on Instagram and I would like for them to post pictures of what they do during the day. There is so much good stuff … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architectural Sketches - The Series, Design, Graphics, Interior Design, Sketching Tagged With: architectural sketching, architectural studio, details, Graphics, sketching

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

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