Design Blog - An Intro

Late in high school and into college I wrote a daily personal reflection blog. There was some good introspection that came out of it. By making it a daily reflection it helped me grow and developed my writing skills at least somewhat. Unfortunately many of the entries were nothing of note. I would often get lazy with them and not do an actual reflection. Eventually I got bad about reflecting and writing every day and it just kind of dropped off.

This blog, however, is a bit different. My goal with this is to learn and work on my writing, but not in the same way. This will be focused on my professional development primarily. As with any field, architecture is filled with new developments and interesting subjects that someone could focus on for their whole life. I already have many thoughts about areas where I could focus my research. I have grand ideas for what to do, but I also recognize that sometimes plans and expectations can be unrealistically high, so it helps to look at them and take them one piece at a time.

So my current plan is to write, reflect, and share information. I want to have a minimum of one a week, but I also do not want to limit myself to that. Developments and inspiration can come from many sources. While I am expecting the architecture newsletters I subscribe to will provide some interesting articles and information, I also expect things like setting up my website will bring new insight into making a company. Lunch and Learns are great sources for information, but so are every day interactions with friends, family, and professionals outside the design industry.

I also think images can really help people understand. So, in a kind of ambitious move for me, I am going to attempt to find or create an image to go with my weekly posts to kind of aid in my message or lesson for the week. For this one I have chosen an image from my second semester of my architecture classes. It was a model from my final project. I now find that project a bit embarrassing, but that’s the nature of old projects. As we learn and develop we find our old work bad. And looking back on it can help us see how far we’ve come.

My final model from my second semester of my architecture degree

So join me as I attempt to learn and develop my skills and knowledge regularly.