Hidden Patterns: Learning from Street Fighter
July 20, 2015
If you grew up in the 80s and 90s, you played Street Fighter more than once. And like me, you didn’t appreciate the amazing design of the game.
Design Process
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.
Basic Unchangeable Decisions
June 20, 2015
I look at the roads in Australia and think about BIM. It feels so simple and easy to declare that they are wrong and the majority of the world is right.
Roommate Test of Manhood
May 28, 2015
Two projects from my time at school show how a strict adherence to digital or analog tools can lead to trouble. I learned a lesson and went with the tool that failed.
Design like an Architect
June 26, 2014
How does one design like an architect? Here’s a spoiler, the answer isn’t tool specific.
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.
Making BIM the Best Tool for Design
May 30, 2014
BIM should be the best tool for design, but it’s not. What’s holding us back? A lack of creativity isn’t helping.
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.
Another Architecture website with images of architects sketching
February 13, 2014
What does an architect look like when working? Architecture websites with images of architects sketching paint a pretty clear (and misleading) picture.