“Love is a battlefield.”- Pat Benatar Do you think it is important for Architects to be on the same page in order to take our profession to the next level? If so, why? And, on which issues must we find consensus? Why bring this up? During a rare lunch meeting with a reputable firm principal he intimated to…
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Will Architects Win- ie Regain Relevance- by Adopting BIM? BIM. What exactly is it? If you’re like me, you may automatically think of a particular software system- a step up from 2D AutoCAD- like Revit, Archicad, Bentley, or any number of other 3D software systems on the market. After attending a few seminars on BIM over the past 5 years, including the one I’m currently attending- the new 40-hour…
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I became interested in architecture at a young age as I enjoyed designing house plans and sketching elevations. At first, I started out on notebook paper and those Academie sketchpads, then my dad gave me some of his engineering quadrille pads from work, and then I progressed to learning mechanical drafting in high school; just as many of you did, I…
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“The only joy in the world is to begin.”- Cesare Pavese On Deciding to Blog There’s a lot of responsibility in running and writing your own blog. I have prefered the freedom of posting on various forums whenever I felt I had something of value to say. Or simply on a whim. Writing on demand…
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If you write a blog, then you know how daunting it can be to choose a Domain Name for your blogsite. Or maybe it was easy for you. For me, it wasn’t as obvious. After writing down about an hundred ideas, I kept coming back to the word Indigo and, being a sole proprietor, it only made…
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