Category: Working with an Architect

In our office we like to draw a lot of sections for each house we design. For the novice reader, a section is a vertical “slice” through your house presented as a 2-dimensional drawing. The side-by-side images of the Tower House by Gluck+ below should give you a pretty clear idea of what a section

Design + Budget: Part 2 In our previous post in this series What To Expect from Your Architect – Designing within Your Budget – we discussed the architect’s responsibility to work with their client to design within the project budget.  “It’s easy to spend a lot of money on a house. It’s more challenging –

It is an architect’s responsibility to understand their client’s budget and to work with that budget to design their home. There are so many costs associated with building a new home or adding onto your existing home. It is our clients’ responsibility to know what amount of money they are comfortable spending on their project.

This is our 11th post in our What To Expect from Your Architect series in which we document the process of Working with an Architect. We are following the progress of our contemporary house project in Lake Wylie, South Carolina and sharing the stories with you here on the blog…  During the last meeting with

During the Design Development Phase the architect “develops the floor plans, exterior and interior elevations, and details to further describe the character of the project.” Basically, the DD Phase is when most of the Design Decisions are made. What To Expect from Your Architect: Design Development We are in the middle of the DD Phase

One of the most important components for a successful residential architecture project is the selection of a General Contractor. I’m pretty sure the Schematic Design meeting in which we present our initial designs to our clients is the most highly anticipated, but trying to find the right General Contractor to build your home is surely

…adding a few more items to the list of What to Expect from Your Architect: Project Schedule + How Things Work  Our series What to Expect from Your Architect is written to provide insight into the process of working with an architect to design and build your home, so you’ll know what to expect every

Our What to Expect from Your Architect series is written to provide insight into the process of working with an architect to design and build your home, so you’ll know what to expect every step of the way. With this post – our 7th in the series – we complete the Schematic Design Phase of

Working with an Architect This is our 6th post in the series What to Expect from Your Architect in which we document the design process through one of our current contemporary residential projects, the 018House. With each post we intend to provide insight into the process of working with an architect to design and build

What’s it like to work with an architect to design your home? Well, we think it should be a lot of fun! What to Expect…Documenting the Process of Working with an Architect: This is part of an ongoing series of posts documenting the process of the 018House, a new contemporary residential project we began in April,