EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

Your future in architecture depends on your ability to learn and UN-learn – letting go of how things are and imagining new possibilities. Being a successful architect takes more than creating a wonderful idea and presenting it to your client. Entrepreneurship. There is a reason I am starting here and not with design.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

The Not so Sexy Side of Architecture Practicing architecture for 99.9% The practice of architecture is more than sketching on trace paper, parti diagrams, deciding what pens to draw with, groupies, and last-minute trips to Vegas. Maybe you shouldn’t be in architecture school … you don’t have what it takes.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 13, 2014

Rainy Sundays are great days to sketch and work out problems in your head…even if you’re half watching Man of Steel while doing so… Kerry Hogue Man of Steel is the exact movie my one son and I watched this past rainy Sunday! instead of moping about as planned i shall produce another diagram for my project!

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I suppose that this seems fortuitous to some people but there were times when this presented serious complications. When I first started architecture school as a freshman in college, I didn’t have the focus or maturity I needed to tackle the curriculum and I ended up having a serious identity crisis when I was 19 years old.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

For the purposes of today’s article, I am going to assume that all architectural drawings are correct and serve their purpose of conveying intent, scope and quantity. When I graduated from architecture school in 199[mumble-mumble], computers were not that prevalent. Big thick black walls look great in parti diagrams.

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