Hosted by Bob Borson and Andrew Hawkins · EN
Ep197: The Knowledge Gap: As veteran architects retire, the profession risks losing hard-won knowledge, mentorship, and judgment no handbook can replace.
Ep 196: Do Architects Retire explores why architects work longer, what comes next, identity shifts, and how money choices that shape retirement options.
Designing Your Own House explores why architects hesitate to design their own homes: pressure, endless choices, ego vs livability, money, and what it reveals.
Being your own boss isn’t about starting a firm. It’s about control, momentum, money, and owning the tradeoffs shaping your career long before you noticed.
Ep 193: The Client Experience, looks at why client relationships feel adversarial and why architects have more control than they think.
Have a Plan is a reflective conversation about why pausing to think matters and how intention can help you move off square one this year.
Architects ask the questions they actually want answered as Bob and Andrew dig into careers, practice, and the occasional absurdity.
The Truth about Titles explores why architectural titles matter, why they don’t, and how their meaning shifts over the course of a career.
Most architects design until the drawings leave the office so why is there so much bad architecture out there? We can all aspire to Design Better.
How does scale factor into the practice of architecture? For any architect, scale and proportion are two skills that appear to be the most challenging to master.