11 personality traits of a great architect
We all want to become the best version of ourselves. And in order to really achieve this, we need a lot of persistence and discipline. The good news is that…
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February 21, 2018
How to face the anxiety of creative process
Dear friends, this one lied on my heart heavily for past months. A message. Message for you, all the creative people in the world. Last week we started a new…
February 18, 2018
8 things to look for when evaluating building site
At the very beginning of design process, the paramount task is to evaluate the site. Architecture without site is just an idea, a hazy concept in the vacuum. The building…
February 11, 2018
Transparent trees
Since the third-semester successfully ended, I now got some extra time to try fiddling with various stuff. One of them is transparent trees. Foliage on the architectural plans, elevations and…
January 25, 2018
Learning from Vals
Too often architecture is conceived as an addition. Column to column, beam to beam, room to room, indefinitely. We have a site and we are adding elements on top. We…
January 17, 2018
What are served and servant spaces?
More than hundred years ago, in 1901, important architect later known as Louis Kahn was born in today's Estonia. His family was very poor and they emigrated to the USA…
January 16, 2018
Construction industry in the age of robots
The construction industry was always slow at adopting new technology. You might think that it changed recently. Drones, BIM, Autonomous vehicles, VR, AR, robotics or exoskeletons. Those are trends to…
January 14, 2018
Findable
There is a problem with knowing only one skill, even though you are the best in it. People say that it is best to be a specialist, focusing deeply on…
December 17, 2017
Distillation of infinity
The process of designing a piece of architecture is long and full of uncertainty. It begins with a desire of a client. And at the beginning, the possibilities are endless.…
December 5, 2017
Constructing Architect Gift Guide 2017
It is that time of year again. Beginning of November, yet there are spruces and pines in every shopping mall. Carrols starts to annoy innocent people, who just need to…
November 13, 2017