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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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

The firm’s designs for the Hamedan Chamber of Commerce , slated to be built in 2027, took home both a Popular and a Jury A+Award in 2018 in the unbuilt institutional category. Readers of Architizer have recently celebrated Carillo’s work as well, selecting her 2016 project Iturbide Studio as a Popular Winner in the 2018 A+Awards.

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Shades of Grey

JUNE 18, 2023

I refer to this as a "rapid BIM sketch". You may think that the idea of a "rapid BIM sketch" is a contradiction in terms, that it's only "real BIM" if it follows the industry standards for commercial projects. This was part of a conference paper that was declined in 2018. I understand why but I remain unconvinced.

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Architecture Quote

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

All in all, they’re an awesome way of letting images tell your story, of letting you showcase your work by presenting your project with good architecture photography, illustrations, project imagery with 3D visualization, plans and original sketches to spark the interest of the visitors. What is an architect portfolio? Portfolio templates.

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Shades of Grey

MAY 16, 2021

So looking through photos I took in Volterra, Tuscany in 2018. This should be enough for me to get the proportions of my outline sketch roughly right. So I did the same on the canvas and sketched out the picture in pencil. So what should I paint. I decided to do a street scene. Nice pattern of light and shade. Good enough.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MAY 30, 2023

It was my first trip back to Venice since the 2018 Biennale, which was the 16th edition and was curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects. My 2018 trip yielded a pair of "book briefs" on this blog with two handfuls of catalogs from the main exhibition, some from the national pavilions, and some on collateral events.

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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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