Last weekend I had a chance to dive into one of my favorite design magazines: Metropolis. The beauty of Metropolis is that it crosses boundaries. It’s not just an architecture magazine, but covers all aspects of design. The March 20 issue asks the question, “what is good design now?

It’s important to consider what recovery mode will look like once the economy begins to return to a state of normalcy…

It has become fashionable to declare the death of drawing. What has happened to our profession, and our art, to cause the supposed end of our most powerful means of conceptualizing and representing architecture?

A Rough Order of Magnitude Estimate (ROM estimate) is an estimation of a project’s level of effort and cost to complete.

“Only accurate information has practical application, so it doesn’t matter what you wanna believe. All that matters is why we should believe it too, and how accurate your perception can be shown to be.” Aaron Ra

Design Tools have changed significantly since I started using a drafting table in the 1990s. I recall watching a race in the mid-90s between an ‘old timer’ IBM draftsman and a younger CAD (Computer Aided Design) operator.

The true cost of adding a new employee

Halloween is a Time for Creepy Decorations and Costumes – In Construction, there is nothing Creepier than Scope Creep! Scope creep is the bane of many project managers. It can impact the timeline, cost and quality of a project as well as the morale of the team. In construction, scope creep is a leading cause […]