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The Dead Fish Museum
What’s in your Cart? That’s right, the Amazon.com shopping cart. The button with a shopping cart in the upper right hand corner of the home page on the Amazon website. For most of us there’s an...
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Ten Ways to Face the Decade like an Architect
Many people say that they would have liked to become an architect but for the math or drawing requirement – areas where they felt they were weak. While sketching and crunching numbers remain important...
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How Do We Know We’re Doing Things Right? Part II
While there are certainly more glaringly important worldwide problems to solve – relief in Haiti, global warming, the lingering economic downturn among them – design professionals are about to pass on...
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81 Reasons Why There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be an Architect
I am an out of work architect. And the prospects for attaining full-time employment doing what I have had the privilege to do on a daily basis for the past 25 years aren’t promising. But despite the...
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Do You Have the Right Stuff to Remain an Architect?
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot – Little Gidding, from Four Quartets Up until...
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62 Reasons to be Optimistic (and 18 to still be Pessimistic)
Not since my post from last year 32 Things to be Optimistic About Right Now have I tackled this subject head-on. It’s about time. That’s not to say I have avoided it altogether. I have addressed the...
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Making a Case for the Value of Architecture
I’d like to share with you a personal letter from the author of Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice, featured here in a previous post. Eric Cesal’s words are eloquent, earnest and...
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What it Means to be an Architect Today
I saw the best architects of my generation destroyed by idleness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the vacant-lotted streets at dawn looking for an angry commission, angleheaded...
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Architects 2Zebras Celebrates 2Years
Looking back, 2010 was a pretty amazing year for Architects 2Zebras. The 81 Reasons Why There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be an Architect post immediately went viral, reposted on dozens of sites...
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The Gifts of a Son of an Architect
Before having kids I decided I was neither going to push them in the direction of architecture nor, if they showed interest at any time, discourage them from pursuing it as a career. I’d wait for them...
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