Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I technically have four separate email accounts: The fake one that I use when I know I don’t want someone to know my real email address. If you were a well-intentioned youth who wanted to know what about being an architect, you could type in “I want to be an architect”you would get 2,780 possible articles to read. (

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Structural Engineering Engineering Engineering Information 100

Life of an Architect

APRIL 2, 2014

Home / Blog / To Delete or Not To Delete … To Delete or Not To Delete … Bob Borson — April 3, 2014 — 91 Comments There are times when I am a glass is half-full sort of person and there are times when I am a glass-half-full-needs-to-be-poured-over-your-head type person. To sum up, I am not my blog.

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Architect Site IT Information 85

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Not exclusively, of course; but before this blog transitioned to its current weekly format, one of the thematic days of the week was appropriately devoted to monographs: Monograph Monday.

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Diagram Architecture School Materials Information 98

Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Bob (looking at glass full of pink liquid): What is this? Sadly, this is not a common occurance.) “Pour glasses of water and wait.” miloe88 I’m not an intern, but technically still being mentored because of my (very) few years of practice (a few months short for 3 years since graduating college).

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Architect Architecture IT Management 90

Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 20, 2015

I’ve decided that one area that I am hoping to focus on over the next year is better, more valuable, architectural content … and for me, that means I am going to try to take things in a more technical direction. The massing is fairly clear but we have reinforced it with how we decided to delineate each component.

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