A few weeks ago, I ate lunch with my friend Sean who designed the KFC “Flagship” out on Bardstown Road in Louisville. During our lunch break at work, we went out to a hardware shop for look for some tools that he needed, and on the way back we stopped there to eat. Sean [...]

“Image of the Architect” was drawn by Louis Hellman on October 25th, 1990.
The first publication of this image was in Architect’s Journal, in London.

My thanks to Professor Robert Kelly for sharing this image with me in a lecture of Urban Forms.  I really appreciated the humor and pop culture references that you had in [...]

At my job, I have been working on a feasibility study for the U.S. National Guard. They want to build a new military base, and I’ve been working with the project manager architect, Don, to study the program and develop a basic floor plan with square footage requirements and dimensions for them. Don [...]

 Strategic Initative #2 - Become the region’s leader in sustainable design practice.
       These indiviuals have passed standards by the United States Green Building Council and have a depth of understanding towards the practice of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Enviromental Design). I hope to add my name to the tree within the next few weeks.
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An architect got into a taxi, leaving the airport to return to his home for the start of the next week. He had spent a long weekend at a open forum roundtable discussion where CEO’s of architecture firms met together on an annual basis to talk freely about the future development of the profession, learn [...]

Luckett and Farley has a great company rewards program in place, where any employee can reward another employee with a small quarter sized magnet with the letters “Spot 5″.  These are awarded for good work, working hard to meet a deadline, a defined accomplishment.  Then, a company wide e-mail is sent out that shares the reason [...]

Summer 2008 Architectural Goals:
1. Learn Revit
2. Learn LEED, become LEED AP accredited
3. Learn Italian
4. Save Money for Italy!
5. Apply for Scholarships for Italy!

 
I’ve been blessed this summer with a full time job, working 40 hours a week, and hopefully additional overtime later this summer. I’ve been working at Luckett and Farley, the largest Architecture/Engineering firm in the state. So far, I’m absolutely loving my summer job. I wake up in the morning and am [...]

I completed my third year of architecture school yesterday, and it was a relief to turn in my last project!
I spent some of my class time working on a Materials and Methods project, where I visited specific places and tried to understand how it was constructed and built. I made a publication at the end [...]

This academic semester I am working with the above team of students for a strawbale wall construction.  More to come about Strawbale design and construction later…