Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I wrote a post years ago titled “ Schematic Design – This Isn’t Architecture ” and while I think you should go read it (because it’s amazing) I will save some of you the time and summarise. Cheers – and don’t let the internet design your next project, it’s a bad idea.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 6, 2014

There is a secret that all attentive architects know: Don’t give your client what they ask for, give them what they need. Better yet, have them be a part of the design process. Unfortunately, what a client needs is not necessarily what they ask for … and it’s up to me to know the difference.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 13, 2017

Each month, dozens of architect bloggers from around the world publish a post on a specific topic simultaneously on the same date. Emotional Marketing for Architects. Our prospective clients learn with their heads, but decide with their hearts. Our prospective clients learn with their heads, but decide with their hearts.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While embracing modern technology, the firm celebrates unique local architectural expression. Exemplified in the Komera Leadership Center, which swept at the 11th Annual A+Awards, this firm is one to keep a close eye on.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 11, 2016

It’s really hard for people to find an architect; at least that’s what the emails in my inbox are telling me. ” Hiring an architect can come across as scary business – but it shouldn’t. Since aesthetics are subjective at best, how does someone actually choose their architect?

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Architizer chatted with Julian Carnrite, Architect, AIBC Principal at W O V E N Architecture and Design , to learn more about this project. Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design? © Woven Architecture and Design. How have your clients responded to the finished project? Team Members.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 26, 2018

EntreArchitect: Behind the Design is a weekly blog series where we feature work designed, developed and/or built by small firm entrepreneur architect members of The EntreArchitect Community. Get Space Vancouver by Jarod Hall of di’velept design. Describe your design team for this project. With clients?

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Architizer

MAY 19, 2023

This vocabulary has influenced countless architects of later periods, from Vitruvius to today’s contemporary designers. Working with complex conditions, budgets, and a profuse history, today’s designers continuously explore through form, scale and material.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

Blier commented, “I think the sketch—to be able to show the client really puts them at ease in a way that a digital drawing may not, because I think everyone, no matter who they are, has sketched before, or drawn, or doodled.”. Concept and Schematic Design Landworks Studio, Salem, Massachusetts, and Taipei, Taiwan.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

So what exactly is schematic design ? In short order, schematic design is the initial design phase in any project. The first step is called programming which is when the client and architect discuss the requirements of the project (how many rooms, the function of the phases, etc.),

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Life of an Architect

JULY 27, 2014

I have known architect Douglas Burke for a few years … although we have never met. Doug and I have formed a professional architect-to-architect relationship since I started writing my blog and we have routinely exchanged emails over the years discussing a myriad of subjects. These are all completely unscripted.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 15, 2021

There are a myriad ways each of us can impact the profession, serve clients and the public, and design a better built environment. We as a profession, need to do better at engaging and celebrating all the ways architects can contribute. Most of our work revolved around entering design competitions. My Personal Story.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

That’s what recent A+Awards winners have taught us, with more women than ever leading teams in conceptualizing, designing and delivering some of the world’s best architecture around the globe. Architecture Studio ’s Yoko Fujii and Apparatus Architects ’ Gabriella Gamma to KIENTRUC O ’s Anni Le and Formafatal ’s Dagmar Št?pánová.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 2, 2022

By Marika Snider, PhD, AIA, Principal Architect, Snider Architecture, LLC, Michael Bell, FAIA, Esq., President, Bell Architecture APC and Leonard Kady, FAIA, Principal, Leonard Kady Architecture + Design. Previously, architects and contractors have successfully used other ACD agreements for their custom residential projects.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Tree House is located on private property in Monte Verde, Brazil Initially conceived as a play space for children, the client decided to make the treehouse suitable for adults in order to enhance their visits to the site. The patterning was inspired by the leaf structure found on nearby sycamore trees.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

After becoming an independent country in 1979, Iranian architects had to find ways to preserve this vivid historical fabric while also satisfying society’s growing needs. Currently, their designs are a blend of tradition and modernity that has introduced a new, contemporary layer to Iranian architecture.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

What does the typical architect’s day look like? Depends on how you define “typical”, the architect, the market sector where they practice, their experience within the profession, and any particular day of the week. This was the project that I used when talking about sketching during schematic design.

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Bustler

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Founder of Daniel Statham Studio, China Chapter Committee Member and Member Royal Institute of British Architects, Distinguished Planning and Architecture Expert of Fengxian New City, Shanghai Umi Lyu：. And thus, it is suggested to combine the existing plot conditions with the overall planning and design for the project.

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A Better Built Environment

MARCH 22, 2021

There are a myriad ways each of us can impact the profession, serve clients and the public, and design a better built environment. We as a profession, need to do better at engaging and celebrating all the ways architects can contribute. Here I was working on an incredibly diverse team, with designers from around the world.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 17, 2014

days on site with my clients and other than some marathon work sessions, they kept to their holiday schedule. This was the end of the programming phase and we spent most of our time talking specifics so that when I returned to Dallas the next task I would take on would be schematic design phases – which means floor plans.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 15, 2016

If you are an architect, you want to see your projects get built. As a result, it has been ignored here on Life of an Architect … but that stops today. I originally introduced this project to everyone in a post I wrote called “ Sketching during Schematic Design ” that I wrote back in November 2014.

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Architecture Quote

JULY 16, 2020

With evolving markets and new technology emerging, architects’ approaches to image-building have changed, in addition to the way architects acquire new leads. This question is very important for ArchitectureQuote (AQ), trying to shake things up and offer new means of generating leads for architects. growth in 2017.

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