Google returns to Milan Design Week with the ?Making Sense of Color? installation, inviting visitors to a multisensorial journey. The post Making Sens ...
A chair made from digitally crafted bamboo, bricks made from upcycled wheat husks from local breweries, and more. Milan?s first Taiwan Pavilion poses ...
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For some people, when I post process sketches, I make their head explode. What I clearly need is for the Internet to save me from myself and the horri ...
It happens to almost all of us eventually, and for pretty much everybody, the experience ranges from unpleasant to downright panic-inducing ? so get y ...
Architecture and Music ... they go together extremely well as music frequently fuels the creative process and there are few things I enjoy more than ...
So how much money do architects make" They\'re all rich, right" Well, that\'s the topic today and we are going to take a look at how best to ...
I am heading out to Weimar for the next 7 days to take part in the celebration of the 99th anniversary of the Bauhaus movement. ...
There are currently 58 “draft” articles on my site – some are fairly recent and some go back years. There are any number of reasons ...
There are many things I do during a typical day ? designing ?stuff? is just one very small portion ? but I still consider myself a designer more so th ...
There is a request that I receive a few times a week that I thought I would finally talk about in an effort to shed some light on a fairly taboo subje ...
With their clarity often confused with simplicity, modern houses require a far greater attention to execution and as a result, seem to surprise everyo ...
If you are interested in becoming an architect, what are the best reasons to pursue your dream" The field of architecture can be extremely reward ...
Fall is just around the corner and that means it\'s time for students around the country to return to their desk at architecture school. For most, thi ...
Architecture and Music ... they go together extremely well as music frequently fuels the creative process and there are few things I enjoy more than ...
Architectural offices do a lot more than simply provide a space in which the occupants do their job ... they represent the culture of the office and p ...
It\'s always good advice to be mindful of the things you say to other people ... but you should really be careful about the things you write because j ...
In this fifth episode of the Life of an Architect podcast, Landon and I take on the topic of Architects and cooking and how those two things come toge ...
It doesn’t happen very often these days but I had a first … I had an extended stay in one of my projects after the client had taken posses ...
Architects like to travel, at least that’s what all my friends who are architects would like you to believe. While I will agree that this is a t ...
I can tell you with absolute clarity, that when you find yourself, either as an architect, or a client, being in a position to select your contractor ...
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 sketchi ...
It is Sunday night and I find myself sitting in my usual location preparing to write the next post on Life of an Architect … except I am expe ...
In this second episode of the Life of an Architect podcast, we turn our attention towards the college years. I graduated from the University of Texas ...
Life of an Architect has finally entered the podcasting world! In the first episode, Bob Borson and Landon Williams discuss why they decided to start ...
The inevitable has arrived. I am officially bored with blogging, and it only took 8 years, 5 months, 8 days, and 854 blog posts to get here. I can sti ...
Conference calls are killing me - they are time-wasting black-holes of people not doing what they were supposed to do when they were supposed to do it ...
Three pieces of advice that have the longevity and clarity that you can benefit from for the rest of your life ... as well as an exceptional pulled po ...
If you are an architect, technology is a way of life ... but despite knowing this information, I am frequently amazed by just how amazing technology a ...
You only turn 50 once, so that means throwing a party. If you are an architect, that also means you\'d better get to work on your house before everyon ...
Does anybody remember “mixtapes”" For those of you born after 1995, mixtapes were traditionally self-assembled arrangements of songs ...
There is something about a clean and simple wood “screen” that is suspended off the face of the wall that is at the same time both modern ...
Architectural sketches typically fall into two distinctive camps (other than “Great!” or “terrible”) and the relative purpose ...
Being an architect is hell for any countless number of reasons, but one of the most prevalent reasons is that architects everywhere are assaulted visu ...
My computer is dying … I am systematically killing it with all the stuff I keep on here. One of the things that frequently happens when you wr ...
“If you go on vacation to Ireland and don’t enjoy yourself, then that’s your fault.” This is what a man told me as I sat in th ...
About 30 days and thousands of sketches later, it\'s time for the next round of Architectural Sketches - The Series. While I think adding "The Se ...
Architectural websites are terrible - everybody knows this. Most architectural websites are created to impress other architects and designers and as a ...
The education of an architect is a lengthy and challenging process. Even after graduating, there is a period of time when the graduates of architectur ...
Architectural Photography can make or break a project when it comes to telling a story. It\'s not just about taking pretty pictures, it\'s about telli ...
The vast majority of sketches I produce are not fit for public consumption. I talk a lot as I am sketching and the drawing I create simply reinforces ...
There are few moments in your life where the time span between the current and younger version of yourself collides. I had such a moment when I met he ...
It all started with a party – getting ready for one to be exact. It is not lost on me that it always seems to take having people over before you ...
There is a lot to be excited about as I look ahead to all the exciting things that are lined up for 2018. While I don\'t have a crystal ball, things a ...
With Christmas happening in just a few days, my email inbox is getting choked out with digital holiday cards from companies that I am almost 100% posi ...
Hindsight is 20/20, or so the phrase goes. If you could go back in time, would you change anything" ...
Architects have their own vocabulary, one I typically try to avoid, but we all understand what it means when you bring pen and paper together and star ...
The only thing worse than shopping for someone who has everything is shopping for an architect. They suck to shop for because they are exceedingly par ...
In the 7th annual "What to get an Architect for Christmas" post, I can guarantee you will have success shopping for the special, overly-pick ...
