A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 21, 2022

I've decided to bring back "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Whatever its name, the firm makes some of the best modern houses in the American West.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

The other problem most architectural websites suffer from is updating them with current projects – something that my own firm has been guilty of for the past several years. Last week my firm, Malone Maxwell Borson Architects, finally went live with our new website. The old site was just that – old.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

Without further ado, explore this remarkable array of women, and to be considered for coverage in this upcoming year, make sure your firm enters its work in the A+Awards before March 4th, 2022. She has formally wed her expertise in the two disciplines by founding Bordas+Peiro Architect and Engineering Firm. We love a good portmanteau.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 9, 2021

Every potential client who architects serve under 40 has created a software derived sketch. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years. Dickinson has also written eight books, the latest of which, A Home Called New England was nominated for a 2018 CT Book Award.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s hard for me to process that when I wrote the very first gift guide back in 2010 that this would become the most requested blog post that I would write every single year. While this would get more use by an architect that tends to sketch more, I still believe that it is useful to any architect.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 16, 2023

Recently I was watching a news program, most likely PBS Newshour or an MSNBC show, and was struck by one of the talking heads speaking via Skype or Zoom being described as "a writer working on turning her blog into a book." His blog was five years old when the book came out, meaning BLDGBLOG is going on eighteen years.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 7, 2021

In the coming age of universal transparency, architects either communicate with non-architects or they sketch in isolation on their devices to amuse themselves (and show other architects) while they earn a living doing other things. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years.

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