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Sketching Details

November 4, 2019 by Bob Borson1 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, SketchingTagged With: architectural sketching, architectural studio, details, Graphics, sketching

Architectural Sketch Series: Schematic Design

August 13, 2019 by Bob BorsonLeave a 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, SketchingTagged With: architectural sketching, design, Graphics, Modern Architecture, Residential Architect, sketching

As-Built Drawing Adventure

July 2, 2019 by Bob Borson1 Comment

As-Built Drawing Adventure

If you are an architect, it's a pretty safe bet that at some point in your career you've had to go on site and collect some existing dimensions for a project. My career is now almost 30 years in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: My Work, Observations, Office, ProjectsTagged With: a day in the life, Do you want to be an Architect, great to work with architects, sketching

Don’t Let the Internet Design Your Project

February 12, 2019 by Bob BorsonLeave a Comment

Don’t Let the Internet Design Your Project

Despite knowing it was coming for me, I decided to post one of my recent sketches to Instagram and Facebook ... and I was murdered. For 95% of those folks doing the murdering, their intentions were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Design, Graphics, Life in General, My Work, Observations, SketchingTagged With: a day in the life, architectural sketching, being a part of the design process, Graphics, sketching, Writing a blog

003: Sketching

July 9, 2018 by Bob Borson8 Comments

003: Sketching

Sketching is a hot topic regardless of the people having the discussion, but I have learned over the last nine years of writing this site that sketching is one of the more hotly contested topics. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EpisodesTagged With: a day in the life, architectural sketching, Graphics, Landon Williams, Podcast, sketching

Architectural Sketches 003 – Japanese Playhouse

April 10, 2018 by Bob Borson6 Comments

Architectural Sketches 003 – Japanese Playhouse

Architectural sketches typically fall into two distinctive camps (other than "Great!" or "terrible") and the relative purpose of those sketches seem to reflect the time period when the sketch was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architects, Architectural Sketches - The Series, Design, SketchingTagged With: architectural sketching, architectural studio, design, details, sketching

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