Architects Are Irrelevant, So You Better Hire An Architect
July 16, 2015
The architect is the great generalist of the project team. The architect knows a good deal about every other discipline on the team.
Being an Architect
The Proper Design of Design Criteria
June 28, 2015
Design criteria is the content that your organization creates to convey the design intent for your concept to the consulting architects and engineers that are hired to design individual locations for your chain concept around the region, country or world.
8th Annual CRAN Symposium: September 19-23, 2015 | Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 17, 2015
The AIA CRAN Symposium for 2015 has been announced. I’m super excited to be on the list of speakers. Plus I get to visit Minnesota! Will I see you there?
Husband, Mom and Architect
December 11, 2014
What’s it like being both a dad and an architect? I’m not really sure. But I do know what it’s like to be a husband, mom and architect.
AIA San Francisco is better than you local AIA Chapter
October 14, 2014
AIA San Francisco is better than you local AIA Chapter. But that’s only half the post. The rest is about 99% Invisible and the Radiotopia Kickstarter Campaign.
Unconscious BIM and Ugly BIM
June 12, 2014
Some lessons from being too busy to write: remembering shortcuts by forgetting that I had forgotten them and suffering through the ugly BIM phase.
One day I will teach this architecture class: Sketching without Sketching
May 15, 2014
If I get the opportunity to teach a studio or lecture class in an architecture school I know EXACTLY what I’d do. I even know the title of the class.
You graduated from Architecture School and want to be called Architect
May 5, 2014
Yes I’m going to talk about who gets to be called an architect, but unfortunately that’s just the symptom of a bigger issue.
#internmistakes – A Monument to a Former President
March 13, 2014
#internmistakes is surprisingly underused on Twitter. Maybe my adventures in this article about being a lazy intern will change that.