Category: Behind the Scenes

Modern Homes in the Holiday Spirit Need a little festive decoration inspiration to put you in the holiday spirit? We’ve asked friends, clients, family, (and snapped a few photos from around the office / neighborhood) to share some photos of how they decorate for the holidays… Last year we brought you Swedish Tomte and Alligator Santas… this year

“It’s Turkey Time!” ….normally that phrase would make me cringe, but last Friday in our office that meant it was time to get out the watercolors and start drawing turkeys! We have been trying to do something special on Friday afternoons in the office – sometimes it’s a design meeting in Eataly or sketching around the

Why did I choose to be a Residential Architect? I found myself speaking to a room full of my peers at the CRAN (Custom Residential Architecture Network) Symposium a couple months ago and one of the first slides of my presentation asked the question, “How did you go from working on huge steel structures to

Architectural Sketching Sketching + Architecture go hand in hand. And I’ll be the first to admit that most of my sketches may not be “museum quality” just yet, but architectural sketches are not about looking pretty. They are all about communicating ideas… whether it’s solving initial design problems or working through ideas and details with colleagues or clients,

Is it just a stereotype that architects love math and puzzles? As it turns out, not in this office! One of our current projects is based on a perfect cube—I’m sure it’s not hard to guess which one. For this week’s post, I thought it would be fun to talk about how Cubed came to

It has been a long time since I’ve had to think about starting a new school year… but we are actually feeling that “Back To School” vibe here in the office this year so this month’s ArchiTalks theme is a fun one to explore. Today’s post is part of the ArchiTalks series in which Bob Borson of

We love talking about architecture–with other architects, potential clients, friends, family, the people we meet in elevators….These conversations often spark a question about our creative process: How do we get from an initial design to a fully constructed home? We’re hoping that with the launch of this new blog series, “Behind the Scenes”, we can

Today’s post is a guest post written by Marisa Kaugars AND is part of the ArchiTalks series in which Bob Borson of Life of an Architect selects a theme, and a bunch of us architects (who also write a blog) post on the same day at the same time… This month our theme is Summer. You can find

Celebrating Architecture: Highlights from #AIAcon16   IMAGINE MORE: more beautiful, more creative, more useful, more amazing, more efficient, more value…. The AIA Convention 2016 in Philadelphia last week was dedicated to inspiring architects to imagine more. LMN Architects won the AIA 2016 Architecture Firm Award and created this Thank You AIA video below – a pretty spectacular showcase

To anyone considering a future in architecture, here’s a bit of advice from 4 of us currently in the architecture profession… From just starting out in the world of architecture to over 18 years (yikes!) of experience, we have some great suggestions for future architects… I asked my team to contribute to today’s ArchiTalks post