Life of an Architect

JUNE 29, 2014

This is an interior view of the Farnsworth House – it is stunning to see in person and it was a project that I had never seen in person before but it was on my architecture bucket list ( now that would be a good idea for a blog post) I ate terribly when I was in Chicago despite the fact that it is fairly renown as a foodie-town.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 11, 2016

To a certain extent, if you are trying to find an architect who can design you a 5 bedroom en suite home, completely outfitted with home theater, workout facilities, formal and informal living spaces, etc. They don’t all have blogs like mine where you can get a pretty good feeling for who I am and how I work.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Originally published in 2013 as Part 4 of the original EntreArchitect Academy Blog Series, this final article of our month dedicated to Business Development shares my firm’s simple sales system. You can read the entire original 2013 blog series here. So share this blog with every architect you know!). Making Money is Good.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 27, 2013

So share this blog with every architect you know!). When we present our initial schematic designs to our client, we are selling. We worked hard, designed projects that people talked about and were well known in our market. Are you making enough to simply pay the bills? So many architects I know are not making ends meet.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 10, 2013

They’ve never experienced a design process or any type of major construction. They think they know what they want, how much it will cost and how long it will take to design and build it. Most architects I know are in the design business. Then we get started and prepare our designs. Sound familiar? Leave them Happy.

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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. The future of architecture is female. Women have been the creative force behind dozens of winning projects in recent seasons, from B.L.U.E.

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Young Architect

JUNE 19, 2022

In this blog post, we’ll take a broad look at the study materials available for ALL the ARE 5.0 Project Planning and Design (PPD). This blog post will focus on study materials about each exam. To make things easier, a table of contents is provided below to help you navigate this blog post. Designer Hacks.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 31, 2021

As an attendee of architecture school in Canada and the Glenn Murcutt Masters Class in Australia, and a designer who has worked in Thailand, China, Japan, Germany, and the US, I’ve strived to create meaningful architectural work and improve communities worldwide. Keep these simple tips in mind when preparing to practice internationally. .

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 3, 2016

I typically hate writing the first post of a new year, it feels a little like that first sketch in the schematic design process – you know it isn’t going to be any good but you have to start somewhere; you’re just feeling things out a bit wondering where you want to take things. ” written January 13th, 2011.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 24, 2013

They may be documented as formal systems or they may just be a general understanding of “how we do it here” When a process is fully developed into a system with supporting documents of forms and checklists , it allows us to focus more on the details and development of a successful design. Systems allow us to be better architects.

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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. I can’t stress enough how much we need people to take design thinking and use it to impact the world in a thousands ways beyond traditional architecture practice.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

It’s not too often that these projects stop evolving at the end of the construction document phase – and being around to make sure that the contractor has the answers they needs – when they need them – and we can make sure that the design vision is able to be carried through into the finished project.

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Community Architect

JUNE 9, 2022

Introduction to the guest blog When in 1968 the then President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Robert Durham, FAIA, extended an invitation to the executive director of the National Urban League, Whitney M. This paper advocate that, through design, it is possible to provide spaces of tolerance that welcome diversities.

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