Picture two animals: a fox and a hedgehog. Which are you? An ancient Greek parable distinguishes between foxes, which know many small things, and hedgehogs, which know one big thing. All …
Delicious Bookmarks for July 4th to July 7th
These are my Delicious Links for July 4th through July 7th: Marketing Handbook for the Design & Construction Professional "These days, driving new business is the key to your survival, and …
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Networking Is… Just Ask
One thing I like so much about online networking is the way unexpected things can happen. One minute you find yourself wondering… ”when am I going to get round to that…?” and someone offers …
Delicious Bookmarks for June 19th to June 27th
More than anything else, it is the support of other bloggers that has helped me in my blogging. One of these is Mel Starrs, specialist in sustainability and green buildings who blogs at Elemental. …
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A Store full of Repentance and No Customers
Sky Masterson: “You are stuck with a store full of repentance and no customers. Without sinners to repent, repentance doesn't exist. So you're stuck with a store full of nothing. Do I give you a fair …
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What Good Architects Do No. 2: Make Connections
All good designers are great at joining things together. A classic example is the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the German Pavilion at Barcelona (1929) rather disappointingly alluded to by …
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Architects Twitter League breaks 250!
When we started this journey in January I could only find a couple of dozen architects using twitter, the networking tool which allows you to converse with people all over the world in 140 character …
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A Design & Build Conversation
What follows is a conversation which took place on twitter between the evening of May 17th and the morning of May 18th 2009. I’ve reproduced it here because it illustrates some of the massive …
PassivHaus – its about saving energy
When I was studying to be an architect in 1990s Liverpool our design tutors gave us a project. We were to choose a method of generating renewable energy by the Mersey, and then design a ‘theme park’ …
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Joining the Architects Twibe
As more and more architects get on to twitter and start tweeting away, they routinely look for each other, and with a bit of luck they come across the Architects Twitter League and end up joining, for …