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What’s Black and White and Unread all Over?
It is a truth universally unacknowledged, that an architect in possession of an imagination, must be in want of something to read. Those who read books outside their area of concentration will...
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81 Reasons Why There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be an Architect
I am an out of work architect. And the prospects for attaining full-time employment doing what I have had the privilege to do on a daily basis for the past 25 years aren’t promising. But despite the...
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Architects as Translators
So much of what we do is listen to the stories of our clients and reinterpret them into physical form. If we can demonstrate to our clients that we understand their story by, in turn, telling them a...
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55 Ways to Help You Evolve as an Architect
The architecture profession and construction industry are in transition. A transition largely driven by technology, but also driven by owners. Owners fed up with adversarial relations between team...
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Become a Life Change Architect
Fall is near, school’s back in session. You can feel it in the air. Studio Assignment #1: Apply the skills you acquired in becoming an architect to design a way out of this mess. Finding a job – or...
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A Heartbreaking Book of Staggering Genius: One Architect’s Detour of Duty
Today’s post will be brief: I have a presentation to edit and packing still to do. But I would be remiss in leaving town without first letting you in on a brand new book that I just read that I predict...
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What it Means to be an Architect Today
I saw the best architects of my generation destroyed by idleness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the vacant-lotted streets at dawn looking for an angry commission, angleheaded...
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49 Ways to Increase Your Influence as an Architect
This blog, and its sister blog, both made a name for themselves and garnered some attention out of the gate by issuing a steady stream of lists: things to do, subjects to master, resources to turn to....
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The Gifts of a Son of an Architect
Before having kids I decided I was neither going to push them in the direction of architecture nor, if they showed interest at any time, discourage them from pursuing it as a career. I’d wait for them...
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