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I was so busy recently, busy with everything, the new office location for the full-time job, the position changes, the end of the part-time job, the new plan for the coming year, and how to treat myself well. It brings me back to my hometown. I wish to take a break and fly back to my…

Every year in the fall, I reconnect with the school where I received an Architecture education through emails. Those emails describe the students I would interview as part of the admission process for applying to the architecture program at Cornell University. After the move back from New York City years ago, and wanting to reconnect with my…

There have been many words that all of us got accustomed to hearing as well as using during the pandemic: resilient, accessible, inclusive, sustainable, affordable. Although these words give us the feeling of warm and happy thoughts about ourselves and others, they are not explicit in the “how” part.   We use these words easily without how…

We architects constantly discuss the importance of promoting our profession to the general public; what we do, how we do it,  and most importantly, why the rest of the population needs us.  However it is not always an easy task to accomplish, and therefore it was interesting to hear from a recent graduate from  University of Toronto…

“I have already selected a very good and reputable contractor for building my new house, I JUST need to have someone to design my house  WHAT!!! It is a recent phone conversation I had with a potential(?) client who is looking for an architect to design his custom house. He got my contact information from…

One of the most debated stories coming out of this pandemic is our relationship to work, more accurately with the location of work with different approaches: WFH model (Work from Home), hybrid model, back to work model. Some people (employees ) are favoring the WFH, some (employers) are not. The most recent WFH disagreement story I read is Apple’s mandated office…