Life of an Architect

JUNE 1, 2014

We spend time on construction sites, which are ground zero for bad language and inappropriate stories, and maybe in our attempts to fit in we adopt the language and demeanor observed while on site. about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? I have a bee hive in my backyard.

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Architect IT Firms Site 80

Landscape Architecture Magazine

MAY 18, 2023

We have documented nearly 250 of these mega-eco projects currently under construction and believe there is a big opportunity for the profession of landscape architecture to participate in them and better fulfill its mandate to steward the land. By Robert Levinthal and Richard Weller Courtesy Robert Levinthal.

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Project Restoration Landscape Environment 86

Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

You could look at the hand drawn construction drawings and frequently tell who had drawn what sheets and what details. I didn’t say the content of their drawings – and this isn’t just semantics – it speaks to the culture of the firm. But that’s not really the entire story is it?

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Architect Architecture Firms IT 111

EntreArchitect

JUNE 12, 2018

A former carpenter and furniture maker with a degree in engineering, Mike mains worked his way up to Director of Design and Business Development at a high end design build firm. Now, as co owner of a design build construction company, Maines Brothers Incorporated, based near Portland, Maine. Start Transcript. Thanks Mark.

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Building Housing Small Firm Residential 40

Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There is no shortage of books and magazines in my office – and I am deluged with new design magazines and trade periodicals daily. While the information is sometimes outdated by the time I see it, the process of critically looking at what other designers are doing is very inspirational. Where do I get my inspiration??

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Architect Site Inspiration Deconstruction 111

Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Bob Borson — February 10, 2014 — 49 Comments The last several years have been hard on the architectural profession. The tone of the questions I’ve received have shifted from: “ Should I become an Architect? “ to “ Why should I become an Architect? If I can get here from where I started, surely others can as well.

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Architect Education Architecture Students 112

Life of an Architect

JANUARY 19, 2014

This is an eat-in kitchen that was designed as a dining room … there is even a fireplace in here. If I had known more about how an actual kitchen worked when I was a child, I might be a chef today. Can you imagine how different the world would be today if I hadn’t become an architect? That’s right … Waste King.

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Architect Client Clients Housing 104

Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

You will get to do just about everything sooner rather than later – attend client meetings, contribute to the design, prepare construction drawings, organize and process bidding and negotiating information, and go to job sites. Here are my Top 5 Reasons to work in a Small Architectural Firm: 1.

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Small Firm Architect Firms Architecture 105

Life of an Architect

APRIL 13, 2014

Should I: Work on my charity playhouse design? Work on the missing design pieces for my new office? But not me … I have things that “have” to be done … or do I? My motivation is low … I want to lay about and do nothing. If you don’t, how do you get it? Start laying out my new kitchen drawings?

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IT Architect Diagram Events 96

Community Architect

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

What requests should be made as part of the public comment period until, in December, the MD Department of the Environment will publish a final Pathway Report describing in detail how MD will reduce climate pollution by 60% by 2031. The short-term plan that projects out to 2027 has a price tag of roughly $4.2

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Transportation Zoning Development Developer 82

Life of an Architect

MARCH 9, 2014

Dariusz works overseas for a firm that shows up regularly in design periodicals and, in all honesty, in architectural history books. Fantastic Resources At every step of the design process, the central focus is design. Here is the list that Dariusz put together for me: Top 5 Reasons to work in a Large Architecture Firm: 1.

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Architecture Firm Firms Small Firm Architecture 102

Community Architect

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The $2.9bn light rail transit project was planned for 13 years at the tune of some $230 million for studies and design alone, only to be abandoned when Maryland elected a Republican Governor, putting nearly $1bn federal funds back on the table. Thus it became the laughingstock of the world. What happened since then? What happened since then?

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Regulation Government Estimating Engineering 74