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Ep 158: Architects and iPads

August 25, 2024 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Ep 158: Architects and iPads

I am going to do at least two things on today’s show – eat a little crow and talk about how I use my iPad. I get asked this question often enough to where I have been meaning to talk about why you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Education, Episodes, Life in General, Office, Podcast, Technology, Tools of the Trade Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, Graphics, Podcast, sketching

Ep 150: Drawing Stuff

May 5, 2024 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Ep 150: Drawing Stuff

So here we are ... Episode 150, and I am a little surprised that I made it this far into this Life of an Architect experiment, but due to the support and interest we have received over the last 6 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Architectural Graphics - The Series, Architectural Sketches - The Series, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Graphics Tagged With: Architects, architectural sketching, design, Graphics, Podcast, sketching

Ep 147: Draw Like an Architect

March 24, 2024 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Ep 147: Draw Like an Architect

How good do you need to be at drawing if you want to become an architect? Or … How can I be an architect – I can’t draw? These are questions that in one form or another, I hear a lot, especially from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Architectural Graphics - The Series, Architectural Sketches - The Series, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Graphics, Podcast, Sketching Tagged With: architectural sketching, Do you want to be an Architect, Graphics, Podcast, sketching

Ep 140: Communicating Through Drawings

December 10, 2023 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Ep 140: Communicating Through Drawings

Architecture is a visual craft. From the end product where people move through, in and about, to the beginning as students when we spend years in school learning to use different forms of medium to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Design, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Graphics, Observations, Podcast, Sketching Tagged With: Graphics, Podcast, sketching

EP 110: Modern Home Challenge

October 2, 2022 by Bob Borson 2 Comments

EP 110: Modern Home Challenge

It was August 10th, 2010 when I first conceived of the “Low-Cost Modern Home Challenge” with the intent to go through a design process that would help us understand how to design a modern house that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Competition, Design, Design Studio, Education, Episodes, Modern House, Podcast Tagged With: architects office, architectural studio, being a part of the design process, design, Design Competition, Graphics, Modern Architecture, modern house, Podcast, Residential Architect, sketching

Architectural Redlines on an iPad

February 14, 2022 by Bob Borson 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Architectural Sketches - The Series, Design, Design Studio, Graphics, My Work, Residential, Sketching Tagged With: a day in the life, architectural sketching, design studio, Graphics, Residential Architect, sketching

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