What it Means to be an Architect Today
I saw the best architects of my generation destroyed by idleness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the vacant-lotted streets at dawn looking for an angry commission, angleheaded...
View ArticleDo Architects Have the (Mindset) to Face the Future?
Here is your future. Do you know where your mindset is? And do you have the right mindset to face your future? The future was presented to us the other day in the form of a PDF. That is, as the future...
View ArticleThe Gifts of a Son of an Architect
Before having kids I decided I was neither going to push them in the direction of architecture nor, if they showed interest at any time, discourage them from pursuing it as a career. I’d wait for them...
View ArticleArchitecture’s Star Making Machinery
A couple things I came across in the mail last week got me thinking about my start as an architect…and whether there’s any real, lasting importance with rubbing shoulders with famous folks. And whether...
View ArticleA Lifeline for a Profession Adrift
Using books as floatation devices is nothing new. Cradle to Cradle, subtitled Remaking the Way We Make Things, is printed on waterproof paper for this reason. Poetry anthologies served this purpose...
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 ArticleArchitect 2Tweets
Here are some of my Tweets that had the most impact from May 19-22 2011, all 140 characters or less. Architect- and Architecture-related Tweets that my followers on Twitter have shared with their...
View ArticleArchitect 2Tweets – The Week in Tweets
Here are some of my architect and architecture-related Tweets that my followers on Twitter have shared with their followers (retweeted or RT in Twitter parlance.) Take a look. Click on the links to...
View ArticleWhy Didn’t You Teach Me How to Practice?
What architects don’t get from architectural education has to be made up in practice. But can it? That’s certainly the intention of Intern Development Program (IDP), the comprehensive training program...
View ArticleArchitects 2Zebras Top 10 Posts for 2011
Architects 2Zebras ended 2010 on a down note and readers let me know it, many of whom came to Zebras expecting positive, uplifting posts. Not walks down reality lane. You made it clear: there are...
View ArticleGoodbye Architects. Hello Equal Partners in Design (EPD)
Whatever they end up doing in their careers, architects originally go into architecture to design buildings. Somewhere along the way – perhaps recognizing that other students or architects are more...
View ArticleBridging Gaps That Don’t Reside in Building Skins
Negotiating a book contract, writing and giving conference presentations, proceedings, and journal articles, along with teaching my college courses, I overbooked my calendar this fall. What resulted...
View Article5 Gifts Seasoned Architects Receive from Emerging Professionals (& vice versa)
There are so many things I have learned over the years from working alongside emerging professionals (EPs), it’s hard to know where to begin. Recognizing that it is artificial and arbitrary to clump...
View ArticleMinority Report: What Drives Success in Architects?
It’s hard to become an architect. There’s education, training, taking the exam. Retaking the exam and licensure. Then, once you’ve become an architect, it’s hard to remain one. And there are so many...
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