Architects of Abstraction
One of the things this blog tries to do is find common ground between various types of architects. There are perhaps no two more different on the surface than software and building design architects....
View ArticleRead or Perish: A Summer Top 10 List
I recently discovered a new section of the bookstore and my life has been all the more enriched for it. For all the time I’ve spent amongst the shelves I somehow overlooked a veritable treasure trove...
View ArticleWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Design
Design. Noun or verb? Building design? Noun. Architects design? Verb. So why do architects keep treating design like it’s a noun? What architects talk about when they talk about design – is mostly...
View ArticleBeing of Three Minds
I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Technology is […] a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and...
View ArticleA Heartbreaking Book of Staggering Genius: One Architect’s Detour of Duty
Today’s post will be brief: I have a presentation to edit and packing still to do. But I would be remiss in leaving town without first letting you in on a brand new book that I just read that I predict...
View ArticleThe Architect’s New Titles: to Use or Abuse
Architects, in an effort to distinguish themselves in a competitive market and work environment, have started to call themselves different things. Not that they’re going to give up the title architect...
View ArticleThe End of the Architecture Firm?
I don’t often mention my work in building information modeling and integrated project delivery in this blog. Because that is what my other blog is for. But this, I felt, is just too important not to...
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