Life of an Architect

MAY 14, 2018

I have taken apart cabinets so they could be sanded, filled holes, chips and gouges, painted millwork, and installed new cabinet hardware. The next morning the floor in the bar was so sticky I thought a clown had exploded back there. You know the old adage that if you have a party, everyone ends up in the kitchen?

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 10, 2021

Today, Engineered Floors talks about raw materials going in one door and carpet going out the other door. But the worst of it all was in Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Southern California—these contractors run out of money for the house and they put in the cheapest floor covering they could get. It elevated us. He knew who they were.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 2, 2014

After our last programming and schematic design session, I came back to Dallas with an armload of diagrams that everyone at the table was a party to making. .” Although, it did look a little like architecture. Tracing paper isn’t precious and I have no problems wasting it by the yard.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 7, 2017

Years ago, and while I was with my last firm, an article was published in ‘Columns’ (our Dallas AIA quarterly published magazine) that painted me in a particular light. Not one, not two, but three baths later, she is finally down for the evening and I can start on the laundry.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Things like floor finishes or countertops can be changed relatively easily, windows not so much, but I see plenty of granite countertops next to the cheapest of cheapest vinyl slider window that can be had at Home Depot for $100. In Dallas there is a HUGE spec home market and we compete against them for clients.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 15, 2016

the change in elevation is the difference between the high one – where the wood flooring will get installed – and the low one – which is where we dropped the floor so that our stone tile would be flush set with the finished floor. This is looking up at the second floor on the backside elevation.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

So here it is … my first project actually made it into ‘ The Dallas Morning News ‘ so clearly that meant I was destined for superstar status?!? The floor is stained black concrete in case you were wondering. Notice how I almost made it all the way through this post without mentioning my hand-lettering?!?

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 29, 2014

Interesting building to look at when standing fairly adjacent to the tower – you can really see how the individual floor plates change shapes to create the signature look on the facade. maybe in a month or so I will be able to smear paint. This is the Aqua Tower by Studio Gang. back to square one with PT. I do admire your energy.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 7, 2015

The entire rear elevation is floor-to-ceiling glass – very expansive views were always an important consideration in the design of the house. The backyard has quite a few really nice trees that all that floor-to-ceiling glass will be able to look upon. Moving around the rear yard looking back towards the house. Growing the alley.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 21, 2018

Being from Texas, I don’t have a closet full of winter clothing (it was 72° here in Dallas as I am writing this) so my game plan was layers and a heavy-duty base layer underneath all the other layers. ″ thick rigid insulation boards painted black. Luckily, we had a way to deal with those … Giant 4′ x 8′ 1.5″

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The floor plan above is focusing in on an elevated front porch that is a visual and physical extension of the main living room to the inside. Can I just tell you how spoiled we are here in Dallas with the masons available to us? We used ípe wood for the trellis slats due to its durability.We

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 7, 2015

In all, there are 36 awards to be distributed – 28 to the Finalists of the 2015 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition , and 1 apiece to Dallas CASA, Humanetics, and to the contractors who built this year’s winning playhouses. If you consider yourself a designer, you should design everything.

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