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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Cheers, and happy “architect-making” Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Architects , Holidays Architects , humor Should I be an Architect? link] Bob Borson thanks Tina Caroline My husband is an electrical engineer (we met on a project) and I’d have it not other way. I love you Building - Happy.

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MAY 14, 2014

Bon Appétit, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Career , Do you want to be an Architect? It reminds me of how as I learned math and programming I’d want to gravitate towards doing the fun stuff and wanting to skip over the details of making a program robust or filling in the steps for a proof.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2014

I’d rather it not but if it does, I’ve no room to complain. Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Life in General , Travel London , Travel , traveling I love you Building - Happy. Would love to be tagging along for the ride. I had planned my schedule under 3 categories. and 14.30.

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APRIL 15, 2014

Yep … totally, totally awesome Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Holidays , Life in General , Observations a day in the life , about bob , bob borson , Top Ten lists Motivation - and why its. I only reject #3 because… 5 pairs? so I’d have more control over the project). Or want to.

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APRIL 6, 2014

Happy sketching, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Graphics , Life in General , My Work , Sketching architectural sketching , sketches , sketching To Delete or Not To Delete. I’ve always wondered why you’d sketches seem to work. Ethan Great post about sketching, it’s not just for architects.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

3 Kitchen with a Wine Cooler – Obviously if you don’t drink this item wouldn’t have much value. However, for a different 2 cents’ families of 8 or more, especially multi-generational ones, as prime candidates for warming drawers and multiple d/w. 2 Two-story Family Room – What?!? About $40 in 2x and 0.5m/d

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

Cheers, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Interior Design , Kitchen , Materials and Products counter tops , kitchens , Materials , Products heard around the. link] Bob Borson feel free to email me some documentation on the porosity of stones, I’d love to see it. and I think that’s pretty cool.

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JUNE 1, 2014

It isn’t on purpose – I’m not trying to harvest the honey – and if I had a say in the matter, I’d like for them to be somewhere else. We’d roll on the floor collapsed in inapropriate laughter. First teaching job, 3 years [you guessed it] in a Catholic school. I have a bee hive in my backyard.

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MARCH 30, 2014

You can have individual SIPs as large at 8′ x 24′ although we don’t have any that large on this job … and I can’t fathom how many architects it would take to lift a panel that big [shudders] We’d have to have a convention or something. Kelly Costanza Thank you Bob for mentioning the ORNL research.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Finally, I thought I would include a letter I wrote from my spiral notebook that covers several cities but recounts the story of when I was in Budapest and our group got caught up in the middle of revolt, an uprising, maybe an attempted coup d’état … whatever it was, it was pretty serious. Incredible. it was great.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Career , Do you want to be an Architect? although I’m kind of new in the business (a recent graduate – 3 years now), I have also been there enough to understand what’s really going on, since my father is an architect too and runs his own firm.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2013

It’s valuable stuff but since it isn’t anything we’d ever sell, we don’t think of it as diamonds, pearls, and opals … it’s her grandmother’s diamonds, pearls, and opals. Nobody came home and discovered people in the house, none of our pets - 3 cats, 1 dog, fishes, rats, etc.

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MARCH 18, 2014

Evidence of the fact that all architects love exploring churches is a post I wrote almost 3 years ago titled “ Top Ten Cathedrals to See before you Die ” which out of almost 600 articles I’ve written to date, it is one of the most read posts on this site. Stephen Dunn Hi Bob.

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DECEMBER 15, 2013

Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Career , Do you want to be an Architect? Talking like an architect makes you sound like you are trying too hard to sound like you know something. Listen to people who have been around the block, they know things and most are trying to teach you something. Happy surviving!

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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. Architectural Sketching or. ’nuff said.

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OCTOBER 20, 2013

I used 3 or 4 different lead holders with leads of varying degrees of hard/soft to them. All of our text is generally scaled so that it plots out at 3/32″ tall – the only exception is equipment labels (sized slightly smaller) and room names (sized slightly larger). Window tags _in plan??_ Looks GREAT! to build.

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MAY 7, 2014

There was a lot of social activities going on within the school of architecture itself and I’d say that 90% of the people I still talk with from my school days are from the architecture program. Cheers, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Do you want to be an Architect?

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DECEMBER 1, 2013

Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Career , Do you want to be an Architect? 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). heard around the. Our boss’s view is similar to this.

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MARCH 27, 2014

Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr Memories from Studio Posted by Bob Borson onMarch 27, 2014 In Memories from Studio architectural studio , college 56 Comments The Best Architectural. Curtis D That was 25 years ago. Nakedjake First year crit, final for a 3 week project. Building with Structural.

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MAY 4, 2014

That would be bad … worse than bad … it’d be “more bad” Despite my trepidation, I decided to do it anyways. Last year over 3 million people came to my site to read what I had to say. Imagine what would happen if someone with real architectural talent was talking to 3 million people? I have a blog.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Architects , Life in General Music A Graphic Designers Bag Do You Have What it Takes to. taulant salihaj I don`t give my music selection Kevin Keller I’m a little all over the place but I’d say I’d be perfectly happy with these 5: 1. Joe Martz 1.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MacBook Pro Retina – I’d prefer NOT to take this but I have deadlines, and so its coming along for the ride. I’d like to thank him for playing along with this series and sending me his images and his descriptions. ” Items: 1. Arca Swiss Rail. This is a simple tool for making single row panoramas. Lee Filters.

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MAY 18, 2014

Only 4 of the 208 playhouses received 5 votes, 7 received 4 votes, and just over 30 received 3 votes. I like kids and I’d love to have fun with them… that’s what I saw in this competition. If I hadn’t designed and built my own for my kids last year, I’d probably try and build one of these.

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JANUARY 26, 2014

I wrote a post in September of 2010 titled the “ Top 10 Modern Kitchen Design Trends ” and It has been 3 years, 4 months and 5 days since I wrote that post and I have to tell you, I nailed it on that post. D Jeanine [link] Bob Borson Thanks Jeanine, you comment made my day! This is going to be fun.

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

Lets start with Interior Elevations - I like my interior elevations to be at 3/8″ – 1′-0″ scale. I happen to believe that it is at this level – the 3″ = 1′-0″ scale – where all truly magnificent buildings are made. 002″ (all projected lineweights and annotations) 3.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I struggled taking 2 semesters of physics in college, 3 years of math and structures courses but you know what? Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Architects , Career , Life in General Architects , bob borson , Do you want to be an Architect KHouse Modern Progress Update. I did it and I got through it.

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APRIL 30, 2014

Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Kitchen , SZW Kitchen Design Contest kitchens , SubZero and Wolf , SZW KHouse Modern - Foundation. For those reading this comment and who are interested, in order for someone to call themselves a “Certified Kitchen Designer” they have to 7 years experience (3 years min.

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JANUARY 5, 2014

The others don’t apply to me as I see it; I already (2) volunteer a lot , I’ve never (3) smoked, I (12) reduce, reuse and recycle at home and work, and I don’t want to (13) drink less alcohol … I think I might want to actually drink more. the condition or quality of being resolute; firmness or determination 3.

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JUNE 12, 2018

I like to say I have a voice made for print. What I’d love to do is dive into your origin story, talk about where you discovered your passion and your purpose, and give us that journey to where you find yourself today. So I did that for awhile and after looking back at my profit and loss, realized I’d made $2 an hour.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Career , Do you want to be an Architect? Introducing the CHouse Modern Jenny Bob, I’d be interested to hear what you recommend for 5-10 year experienced, recently licensed architect who doesn’t maintain a traditional, school-type portfolio. Happy job hunting!

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Wasn’t sure if that was clear so I thought I’d point it out in case you missed it above … and I didn’t read it either. Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Career , Observations , Office architects office , conversations , what? You should be less ambiguous 3. Another great post!

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MAY 28, 2014

If this were Weese’s only achievement he’d be assured a lasting and deserving legacy, but as this wonderful book by Robert Bruegman illustrates he was an inventive and thoughtful humanist, concerned as much with how people used and perceived his spaces as their aesthetic implications for other architects.

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OCTOBER 13, 2013

There are 3 main materials on this house; the darker colored material on the left is the garage and is metal siding, the lighter buff colored material is a 4″ x 24″ masonry stretcher (think of it as a really long brick), and the light gray color is cast in place concrete. as he comes and goes from the house. Yes – it would.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

In the meantime, I’d recommend you go out and pick up a Bosch Tassimo hot beverage brewing system for your office. Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Architects , Life in General , Products a day in the life , architects office , Products You have something gross on. Happy caffeinating!

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Architects , Career , Do you want to be an Architect? I took the exam in 1994 over a period of 3 months. My guess would be the 3 year percentage now is nowhere near that. Cheers – and thank you for your time and opinions. three years after my Va.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2013

I don’t have a list of names to give you here and until this deconstruction process is completed on the KHouse Modern , I’d prefer to keep our vendor’s name to myself. If this process seems overly complicated don’t worry – most of the heavy lifting can be done by others once you decide to pursue this path.

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JUNE 18, 2014

It didn’t help matters that the construction company went through 3 project managers and 4 or 5 project superintendents during this project – every time I would make some headway into creating some goodwill between us and the contractor, that person would get fired, or simply disappear. heard around the. Vishal thanx for sharing.

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