Moonlighting gets a bad rap. Note: This is the twenty-eighth post in a group series called #ArchiTalks started by Bob Borson of Life of an Architect. This month's topic comes from Mike Riscica: “Moonlighting”. Moonlighting changes with the...
What's mentorship all about? A year and a half ago, I wrote a 3-part series on mentorship. Today for ArchiTalks, it's time to take another look at the subject. Lessons learned, new goals, and more insight into growing our beloved profession. (The...
What's working with an architect like? Will we show up in all black? Maybe. Will we request or readily provide caffeine? Probably. Will our office space be awesome? Definitely. Will we surpass your dreams? Absolutely. Note: This is the...
Ah - the ever-elusive balance. Balance is like a fairy nymph - flitting always just outside of reach. Or perhaps orb-like (and actually a fiction of your imagination caused by too much screen time). As someone whose profession is their passion...
For almost the last three months, I've had to keep the hardest secret. In early December, I got an email saying I'd won the 2017 AIA National Young Architect Award and could only tell family, sponsors, and close friends. Hilariously, last night I...
Hello, 2017! The crew got busy towards the end of the year and suddenly it was February! We're going co-op on this, and this month's theme is from @BPaletz - style! Note: This is the twenty-third post in a group series called #ArchiTalks in which...
A photo posted by Lora Teagarden (@l2designllc) on Jan 6, 2017 at 6:30am PST While wrapping up the production on the second volume of the AREsketches study guide series, I started thinking back to where it all started and about what the...
I decided to wait until 2016 was fully over before I wrote my recap. Well, that and life has a way of getting hectic when you least expect it. So here we are, freshly into 2017. I thought I’d take a look back and do a 2016 blogging recap to...
Annnndddd we’re back. We took a bit of a hiatus since the last post for those headed back to school. So now we’re jumping back in to cover what we thought our careers would look like when we graduated, and what we find ourselves doing...
After giving two presentations at a regional level, I want to talk about something in the emerging professional world of the utmost importance: your license. Or rather, your current lack of it. So I decided to put together a list of the 10...
