Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

In the beginning – back in early 2010 – things were somewhat slow at the office and I needed a creative outlet … and Life of an Architect was born. I did learn to twirl my brush though…… [link] Bob Borson I wasn’t shown the pencil-in-the-ceiling technique either but I learned it anyways.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 1, 2013

For those people with that wonderous gift of Design, they have to communicate as well with the staff that makes the design real as much as they do with the client who is paying for that reality. All we need is a few good clients. Which takes dedication to craft, and keeping a current knowledge base. All we try to do is cover our cost.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This technique works on any large format sheet of paper. This technique also leaves you with an exposed title block along the outside edge of the paper which means no unfolding is necessary to see the nougaty drawing center. I have labeled the corners to help you keep track of how the sheet is being folded.

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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. I really enjoy the personal contact I have with my Clients/Owners, contractors and tradespeople.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 29, 2014

This last week I was in Chicago for the American Institute of Architects National Convention – I arrived around 1:00am Wednesday morning (my first seminar was 6 hours later) and I left Sunday at 9:00am to drive to northern Wisconsin to meet with some new clients. The convention, as always, was great.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mork-Ulnes Architects designed the home with a gabled roof "We knew from the outset that this project would be an interesting collaboration, balancing our reductive tendencies with the more exuberant and maximalist impulses of our client/friends, whose style we had always admired and wanted to celebrate," said Casper Mork-Ulnes.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 20, 2014

One upside of working many jobs is that you get to experience all sorts of different project types, firm sizes, and management techniques. I’ve been around the architectural block more times than I care to admit at this stage of my career and I have learned a few things along the way. Following my casual advice is at your own peril.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Let’s go to my favorite educational design technique – the “narrative” [scene] Night time, new house, couple sleeping in their new bedroom for the first time Future Victim A : Don’t you love our new bedroom? Fear is always helpful in getting my clients to see the correct way.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Mark Mc Swain There is a parallel here for when this conversation is with a client–whether in the “No, we are clean full up with work, and have not a manhour to spare for more work” or the no-way-are-we-working-for-you sense of it. By not controlling yourself the environment will be curtly on you.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 11, 2014

I have no doubt that the stories our client will tell folks about his house will include more than just “this is white oak flooring” or “this is a pier and beam foundation.” Construction and Architecture in tandem,its a winner when designing and making sense of the practicality of a building technique.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 22, 2014

[link] Bob Borson Yes – we have drunk the kool-aid and this is the evolution of how work is generated in the office. Therefore, anything you read on this site is not a substitute for actually working with me. Following my casual advice is at your own peril. if you want my undivided attention, I would recommend hiring me.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

One of the items we spent time thinking about was how the client would age in place at this house. The client thought there was simply “too much concrete” in this area for his tastes. Clients love to be able to see the models. We also have a cantilevered ramp along this elevation. and I love apple computers.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 17, 2013

link] Bob Borson it also helps create breezes – ages old technique [link] Bridget Willard I guess I never thought of it. Since we tend to blur the definition between interior and exterior space, the exterior hardscape (built things, not plants) figures into how design the building and its penetrations. link] Bridget Willard WOW!

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 18, 2014

I feel very grateful for the clients, contractors and consultants that I currently work with on a daily basis. link] Bob Borson if you never play the game and the techniques don’t elicit the desired response, those people generally start looking for other tactics to try and get their way.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 18, 2014

We had access just about everywhere and getting to walk above the nave and get an up close look at the construction techniques of a building this old was really great. I’ve toured a lot of churches in my young life and I have to admit, my experience at Salisbury Cathedral was one of the best.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 27, 2013

I take a great deal of pride in how my drawings look and this it isn’t just me patting myself on the back, this is due to the feedback I have received from contractors and clients on how easy my drawings are to read and to navigate. joggle just a couple of cold bridges in them details! Following my casual advice is at your own peril.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 30, 2014

I work as as a House Consultant and 95% of my work is about advising clients how to create a single space with kitchen, dining and living areas. In the end, we both typically think things turned out pretty well – having the confidence and trust of your “client” is a terrific thing. kandbdesignpro Steve.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 9, 2014

Although this one kind of struck a chord with me… Maybe you were being frivolous about your sketchup gloating, and sorry if i misinterpreted it, but it seems your modeling techniques need some serious work. I also am designing a house for my husband and I – he is my worst client (LOL).

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Architizer

JANUARY 3, 2024

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. Together with clients, they walk along the path of discovering architecture enhancing authentic perception of space, materials and architect’s minute details.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Since the projects I work on aren’t for me, I need to be able to separate out what I personally like and what the client wants. But , yes , I’d love to learn more new techniques. But , yes , I’d love to learn more new techniques. Doing my Btech in India. I’ve always wanted to be an architect.i

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. ” We challenge the obvious solutions and aesthetics in favor of creating something unique, derived from the company’s identity and our client’s dreams.

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Architizer

AUGUST 7, 2024

Retrofitting existing housing has been a core piece of our work since the 2010 Haiti earthquake, when we saw the opportunity to retrofit damaged buildings to produce safe, permanent housing more quickly. Since then, buildings in Nepal, the Philippines, Colombia and beyond have been strengthened at a fraction of the cost of building new.

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Architizer

JUNE 9, 2023

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. COMUNarquitectos © COMUNarquitectos COMUNarquitectos is a firm created in 2010 in Tokyo, Japan with the idea of make architecture mainly for the community.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 30, 2014

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright Nourish the Vines(Clients) that feed your business and they will grow in the right direction. Provide them with an inferior product and your clients will die off and never pass along a good word or come back.

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Hotel Designs

AUGUST 7, 2024

As a Royal Warrant holder, Hypnos Contract Bed s combines traditional skills, refined from more than 120 years’ experience, with constant innovation and modern techniques. As a Royal Warrant holder, Hypnos Contract Bed s combines traditional skills, refined from more than 120 years’ experience, with constant innovation and modern techniques.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Most of my drawing technique was formed by Francis Ching’s books and the ‘Art of Star Wars’ books (seriously- they are beautiful and full of amazing drawings) christianfekete Great topic for discussion. An architect I once worked under went to a school with a class specifically focused on graphics standards.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 15, 2016

There are some simple things someone can do to put themselves in a position to give a great presentation, I’ve covered them in an article titled: Presentation Skills -Tips and Techniques and with just a few little adjustments, most people can become more than competent when presenting.

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e-architect

MAY 23, 2023

The design is based on a participatory method that involved architects and clients with the shared goal of creating a community that would establish a positive relationship between man, the built environment, and nature. The Mixtura team is enamored by architecture and its ability to create relationships through built space.

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Architizer

MAY 19, 2023

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. Z-level mainly carries out projects in Greece, with satisfied clients from all over the world. We shape experience.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 5, 2023

Dating back to the second millennium BC with Mesopotamian brick architecture, the arch really got underway in ancient Rome, where architects started applying the technique across multiple building styles. They [the clients] were set on a concrete house,” says the architect Nic Brunsdon.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. The firm seeks to “investigate and create new techniques for architecture in the contemporary city.”. xomali house , CDMX, Mexico. Total Projects.

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Bustler

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

From pain points to potential, hear how leaders in the architecture and engineering industry are innovating through new business models and managerial techniques. Chanin School of Architecture and former Head of the Department of Architecture at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning where he served from 2010-2014.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. Vali-Asr building of this studio has been selected as the best office building of the year in World Architecture Festival in 2010.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

m2Project Timeline: September 3, 2020 – May 1, 2021Project Client: 2049 Investment GroupProject Status: CompletedProject Architectural Design: llLab. The vacant tile factory building took on a new life in 2010 as a tile factory Hotel; the building was renamed, “The Brickyard Retreat” © LLLab. m2Renovation Area: 752.36

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. Variety and stabilization, technique and elemental strength, freshness, smell and taste of the ocean… Cooperation and individualitthe ocean… Cooperation and individuality.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. P·A works for individual and corporate clients. P·A is strong in taking care of the client, from the initiation phase to construction and management.

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Architizer

MAY 12, 2023

Decades later, skyscrapers began to dominate the skylines of Argentine cities, signaling a generation of designers who embraced modern techniques yet maintained a similar aesthetic to their predecessors. Our clients are those who dare a better living. Because we believe in design process innovation as a problem solution. Some of BAM!

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