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Ep 190: The Truth about Titles

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2025/12/07

The Truth about Titles explores why architectural titles matter, why they don’t, and how their meaning shifts over the course of a career.The post Ep 190: The Truth about Titles first appeared on Life of an Architect. Continue reading Ep 190: The Truth about Titles at Life of an Architect.

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Ep 185: Procrastination – Today’s Problem Tomorrow

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2025/09/21

It’s one thing to be busy and another to be productive – and most of us are far better at the first than the second. The reality is that architects live in a world of deadlines, meetings, and endless to-do lists, but somehow there’s always time to check Instagram, rearrange your desktop icons, or spend twenty minutes deciding which playlist will help you focus before actually doing the work. Procrastination has a way of disguising itself as “just five more minutes” until suddenly tomorrow is looking

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Ep 183: Tips for being an Architect AND a Good Person

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2025/08/24

Architectural career tips meet life lessons in a conversation about balancing professional success with being a genuinely good person. This is Tips for being an Architect and a Good Person.The post Ep 183: Tips for being an Architect AND a Good Person first appeared on Life of an Architect. Continue reading Ep 183: Tips for being an Architect AND a Good Person at Life of an Architect.

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Ep 182: How AI is Changing Architecture

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2025/08/10

Discover how AI tools are transforming architecture, from design and research to workflow efficiency, and shaping the future of practice.The post Ep 182: How AI is Changing Architecture first appeared on Life of an Architect. Continue reading Ep 182: How AI is Changing Architecture at Life of an Architect.

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Ep 181: Attitude Reflects Leadership

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2025/07/27

How leadership behavior shapes culture, trust, and growth - why people mirror what leaders model, and how influence is built through everyday actions.The post Ep 181: Attitude Reflects Leadership first appeared on Life of an Architect. Continue reading Ep 181: Attitude Reflects Leadership at Life of an Architect.

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Ep 178: Under Pressure

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2025/06/15

This is Life of an Architect, a podcast dedicated to all things architecture with a little bit of life thrown in for balance.We’ve all had days where the drawing set grows by thirty pages and the inbox doubles before noon. A consultant goes silent, a client changes their mind, and just when the printer jams, someone asks if you’ve “had a chance to think big.” The pace is relentless, the roles are blurred, and the weight of expectations never really lets up. Some of it is systemic. Some of it is

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Ep 176: Little White Lies

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2025/05/18

We’ve all stared at the calendar, convinced there’s a hidden twenty-fifth hour—plenty of room to redline that section, nudge the model, and squeeze in just one more detail. “We’ll sort it during bidding,” we promise ourselves, and the optimism buys another day of breathing room. Architects thrive on this kind of self-talk; some versions are harmless, others lurk like change-order booby traps. Today Andrew and I are spotlighting the greatest hits—the stories we repeat, the messes they create, and the

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Ep 173: Mentorship Matters

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2025/04/06

Mentorship turns confusion into clarity, builds confidence, and connects you with people who help you grow faster than you ever could alone.The post Ep 173: Mentorship Matters first appeared on Life of an Architect. Continue reading Ep 173: Mentorship Matters at Life of an Architect.

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Ep 169: Architecture Studio

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2025/02/09

The act of creating architecture is a fairly unique process and the manner in which you learn how to think both creatively and technically is a skill that requires certain training and nurturing to develop. When young and eager architects in training head off to college, this development will take place in the architecture studio. This is a topic that – shockingly – we haven’t pointedly discussed on the podcast before and today, that is going to change. Welcome to Episode 169: Architecture

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Ep 167: How Did We Get Here?

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2025/01/12

It is the start of a New Year, everything still smells fresh and most things looking forward are theoretically in place for an amazing year … at least I think so. Since it is first podcast episode of 2025, today’s conversation is more of an introspective look into a career and just how bad or good things have gone over the last 30+ years. While this is not a look into my own personal diary, it should provide you with a framework when you decide to look at whatever it is you’ve got going on as well

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EP 162: Objects of Design

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2024/10/21

Some things are cool – even if you don’t know it yet. Andrew and I have prepared some stories today about some things you are probably familiar with but probably don’t actually know the whole story. We have each selected two things and we are going to share with you what we believe are some amazing stories … Welcome to EP 162: Objects of Design[Note: If you are reading this via email, click here to access the on-site audio player] Today we are going to share with you something we feel is

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Ep 160: Determining Value

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2024/09/22

When I say the word “value”, the meaning that typically comes to mind is generated by that persons position or context. Andrew and I were having a chat about how employees think of value versus how employers think of value and is there a disconnect between these two groups that should be concerning? Welcome to EP 160: Determining Value[Note: If you are reading this via email, click here to access the on-site audio player] As someone who’s been on both sides of the employee-employer equation, I’ve

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Ep 159: Ask the Show Fall 2024

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2024/09/08

It is time for the second and last installment of the Life of an Architect “Ask the Show” episode for 2024. Once again, as is our practice we solicited questions to be submitted through our Instagram channels and selected as many as we thought we could reasonably get through in the time allocated for the show. If there were duplications, that simply made that question more likely to get answered. All this and more on today’s episode as Andrew and I answer your burning questions… Welcome to EP 159:

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Ep 157: Project Constraints

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2024/08/11

You sit down at your desk, you turn your computer on, maybe you sharpen your pencils, you lay out your rolls of trace and your sharpie pens – whatever your creative process – and you are about to start work solving the problems at hand … But where do you start? Sitting before you are all the normal tools and a big fat blank piece of paper. This is a moment where you have to make a make a decision on what happens next. Where do you start? How do you set the priorities to the issues you will be

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Ep 155: Optimism

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2024/07/14

The vast majority of practicing architects view the time spent practicing their craft as a calling, but what happens when you don’t want to get out of bed? Today we discuss the role of "optimism" in architecture.The post Ep 155: Optimism first appeared on Life of an Architect. Continue reading Ep 155: Optimism at Life of an Architect.

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Ep 154: Networking

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2024/06/30

Today we are tackling a topic that we have never covered before, not even a little. Imagine walking into a crowded room and not knowing who to talk to or what to say, a situation I have found myself uncomfortably in more times that my therapist can ignore. The ability to build meaningful relationships and strategic alliances is a critical part of the success of any business. Today, Andrew and I will discuss a topic that at least from my side of things, have zero training in but is nonetheless a part

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Ep 152: Starting a New Job

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2024/06/02

When you are starting a new job, even you very first job, here are some tips that might make the transition a bit easier and potentially, more fruitful.The post Ep 152: Starting a New Job first appeared on Life of an Architect. Continue reading Ep 152: Starting a New Job at Life of an Architect.

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Ep 151: Starting a Business

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2024/05/19

We are finally conceding to a request that’s been made a thousand times – do an episode on starting an architectural business – a topic that I have resisted for essentially 6 years, and I think I’ve finally broken. This is not as easy of a topic to discuss as you might think because there are a million different ways you could answer a question this broad. In an attempt to make this conversation of value, we are going to start at the beginning, and we are going to eat this whale one bit at a time

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Ep 150: Drawing Stuff

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2024/05/05

So here we are … Episode 150, and I am a little surprised that I made it this far into this Life of an Architect experiment, but due to the support and interest we have received over the last 6 years, we find ourselves as what I believe to be a fairly significant milestone. When it came time to pick today’s subject matter, there was really on one topic that was up for consideration … Welcome to EP 150: Drawing Stuff![Note: If you are reading this via email, click here to access the on-site

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Ep 147: Draw Like an Architect

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2024/03/24

How good do you need to be at drawing if you want to become an architect? Or … How can I be an architect – I can’t draw? Is there an easy answer to these questions? Of course there is, but that doesn’t mean the getting is easy.The post Ep 147: Draw Like an Architect first appeared on Life of an Architect. Continue reading Ep 147: Draw Like an Architect at Life of an Architect.

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