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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

Life of an Architect

While 2014 isn’t technically over yet, it isn’t going to stop me [ cause I do what I want] from looking back at all the articles I wrote over the year to see which ones represented the very best that 2014 and I had to offer. On the residential part of our practice, we do a lot of pier and beam foundations.

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Pier and Beam Foundations - KHouse Progress | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Construction / Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Bob Borson — June 12, 2014 — 73 Comments On the residential part of our practice, we do a lot of pier and beam foundations. Add water, through rain and irrigation, and the soil expands.

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Star Tracks

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Interpreting this for the grounds of the Cozad-Bates House became the brief of DERU Landscape Architecture, which was founded in 2014 by Jayme Schwartzberg, ASLA, and now includes Erin Laffay, ASLA, and Maci Nelson, Associate ASLA. On the opposite side will be drawings on ceramic tile that Pozo sketched from photos of Owens.

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Almost 40 Tips for Starting an Architecture Firm

EntreArchitect

Pull out a large sheet of paper and begin sketching out a strategic plan for how your business will be managed and grow. As she began talking about some of the essential skills that architects need to have for their contract documents, I found myself taking so many notes and knew that she would be perfect for this presentation.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. In 2018, Diller was the only architect named on Time Magazine’s Most Influential List.

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Documenting Architecture with Photos

Life of an Architect

I originally introduced this project to everyone in a post I wrote called “ Sketching during Schematic Design ” that I wrote back in November 2014. That plan is the sketch I’ve included just above. Foundation begins.