If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Surprisingly, “we,” being architects, are very happy with our jobs considering how others view their profession.
Take a look at this Time.com Survey where 53.5% of Architects say they are very happy with their jobs, putting them near the top of […]

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Recently we had to move our desks around in my office in order to retint our windows. My firm has been at its current location for 15 years and the furniture arrangement has never changed. So you can imagine that prying the desks from their encrusted locations on the rug revealed a cross section of […]

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Interviewing is stressful. As years go by and you go through your fair share of interviews, you will find it comes easier and more naturally. Still, if you are interviewing for a job, you are probably in a fragile/desperate state where you either need a job or have to get out of your current job […]

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As I discussed in my last post, your portfolio should be as un-complicated as possible and speak for itself. The goal here is to waste little time on mundane details when in actuality, your architectural work should be speaking for you. Now I want to take the portfolio the next step further in order to […]

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I know the title of this article is one of those “easier said than done” issues, but it’s really true.
After I graduated, I was ready to take on the world. Aren’t we all? However, your portfolio can become a major barrier to your success in starting out in the field. You have high hopes of […]

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