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EP 174: Dear Future Architects …

April 21, 2025 by Bob Borson 2 Comments

EP 174: Dear Future Architects …

There are bits of advice that one collects over a 30 year career and when given the chance, some are worth passing on to those who care to listen. While this could have been a lessons from my father … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Design Studio, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Life in General, Observations, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, architectural studio, Architecture and Society, career, Do you want to be an Architect, Podcast, Top Ten lists

EP 093: The Top 10 Reasons NOT to be an Architect

February 6, 2022 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

EP 093: The Top 10 Reasons NOT to be an Architect

Let’s admit it – telling someone you are an architect is pretty cool because whether or not they understand what that means or what the job entails. Regardless of the accuracy of information those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Observations, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, career, Do you want to be an Architect, Podcast, Residential Architect, Top Ten lists

EP 092: The Top 10 Reasons to be an Architect

January 23, 2022 by Bob Borson 3 Comments

EP 092: The Top 10 Reasons to be an Architect

The Top 10 Reasons to be an Architect is a good topic to discuss on an architecturally themed podcast and interestingly enough, this is the very topic that put the Life of an Architect website on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architect Skills, Do you want to be an Architect?, Episodes, Observations, Podcast Tagged With: a day in the life, career, Do you want to be an Architect, Podcast, Residential Architect, Top Ten lists

Architects and Fashion: The Top 6 Styles

May 7, 2020 by Andrew Hawkins 1 Comment

Architects and Fashion: The Top 6 Styles

Let’s take a minute and discuss some typical styles of fashion for the architecture profession. I am almost always amazed, amused, and even envious of many of my fellow architects and their sense of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Andrew H, Architects, Career, Humor, Observations Tagged With: Architects, Architecture and Society, Style, Top Ten lists

Advice for a young Architect

January 24, 2017 by Bob Borson 22 Comments

Advice for a young Architect

"Re: Advice for a young architect" That was the subject line of one of the emails that came in over the weekend. Normally I don't respond to the newest emails first (especially since I have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Life in General Tagged With: advice, career, Do you want to be an Architect, Top Ten lists

Make Your Own Opportunities

April 21, 2014 by Bob Borson 26 Comments

Make Your Own Opportunities

Young architectural interns are awesome … full of promise and possibility. I’ve been around the architectural block more times than I care to admit at this stage of my career and I have learned a few … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Do you want to be an Architect? Tagged With: career, interns, Top Ten lists

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