Since early 2012, I have been writing about the business of architecture, a subject that has since become the primary focus of Panfilo. You can review a chronological listing of all of my business content here, or search the below index on articles related to lessons to my younger self.
Lessons learnt over the years
Grouped under the tag, lessons for design students
- Better to finish an imperfect project than perfect an unfinished one, 26 August 2015
- Bring your A-game, 25 August 2015
- A great project succeeds at every stage, 24 August 2015
- Show it don’t say it (version #2), 21 August 2015
- Tell a story, 20 August 2015
- Choose the right scale, 19 August 2015
- Roll design and presentation into one, 18 August 2015
- Iterate, 17 August 2015
- Move forwards not sideways, 14 August 2015
- Learning is a two way street, 12 August 2015
- Sweat the small stuff, 11 August 2015
- Design does not happen in a bubble, 10 August 2015
- The teacup principle, 7 August 2015
- The KISS principle, 6 August 2015
- Ideas must be legible, 5 August 2015
- The triangle offensive, 4 August 2015
- Develop a tree of ideas, 3 August 2015
- Jaws in space, 31 July 2015
- Site analysis uses the language of your ideas, 30 July 2015
- Good research is essential, 29 July 2015
- Be open to the unexpected, 28 July 2015
- Lessons for design students, 27 July 2015
- The lifestyle is bitchin’, 25 June 2014
- The architect is a Renaissance Man, 24 June 2014
- Architecture practice is an emotional rollercoaster ride, 23 June 2014
- Business is not a dirty word, 20 June 2014
- Architecture is slow, 19 June 2014
- Architecture is old fashioned, 18 June 2014
- Follow your gut, 20 December 2012
- Show it don’t say it, 7 October 2012
- Good design knows no boundaries, 3 August 2012
- Sting like a bee, 2 August 2012
- Learn from your body, 1 August 2012
- A building has six elevations, 31 July 2012
- Stick with it until the end, 30 July 2012
- Create a hierarchy of ideas, 27 July 2012
- It’s okay not to know the punchline, 26 July 2012
- Seeing is believing, 25 July 2012
- Tomorrow is defined by what you do today, 24 July 2012
- Look back in order to move forward, 23 July 2012
- Creativity is subtraction, 30 September 2011
- Be boring (it’s the only way to get work done), 29 September 2011
- Be nice (the world is a small town), 28 September 2011
- Geography is no longer our master, 27 September 2011
- The secret: do good work then put it where people can see it, 26 September 2011
- Side projects and hobbies are important, 25 September 2011
- Use your hands, 24 September 2011
- Design the house in which you want to live, 23 September 2011
- Don’t wait until you know who you are to make things, 22 September 2011
- How to steal like an architect, 21 September 2011
Image:
- Mihaly Slocombe studio, photo by Tatjana Plitt.