Associated Thoughts – Post Project Blues
Associate Director, Ashleigh Walker, asks at the end of a long project “Is it weird to feel a little sad that the process is over?”
Associated Thoughts: Balancing Acts
As I sit inside, blissfully cooled by the air conditioner, I find myself thinking about the balancing acts we make in life. There’s the constant work-life balance that seems to ebb and flow with project deadlines and summer vacations.
Associated Thoughts: A Reflection on Craft and Design Forum XVI
A few weeks ago, AIA Virginia and their Design Committee hosted the Design Forum XVI, focusing on [Un]Certainty: Reflections on Craft at the Cyber Frontier. The event and accompanying discussions, were both humbling and thought-provoking.
Associated Thoughts: New Beginnings
As a newly-appointed AIA Virginia Board Member, I find myself contemplating the idea of “new beginnings” throughout the start of the new year. My focus has been on not only how to represent the current group of AIA Virginia Associate members, but who am I representing?
Associated Thoughts: Job Shadowing: 3 Benefits + 3 Tips
This edition of Associated Thoughts is dedicated to the students and emerging professionals looking for that real-world experience in an architecture office and how we, as professionals working in architecture, can better support these future architects through job shadow opportunities.
Associated Thoughts: Design Forum
Sitting among colleagues and friends as we listened to the effect architecture has made in South America was already a powerful experience, but as an emerging professional in architecture, each message behind the presentations was more impactful than the last.
Associated Thoughts: Following Through
Starting a new year comes with changes and resolutions. If you haven’t already taken the time to set up a few resolutions for 2022, I highly recommend setting up some professional and personal resolutions that relate to improving your mental and physical health.
Associated Thoughts: An Introduction
Starting a new year comes with new habits, new mindsets, and for me, new responsibilities! 2022 is shaping up to be a year of growth as I serve as AIA Virginia’s Associate Director, and I definitely have big shoes to fill.
Associated Thoughts: Unfinished Things
The world we inhabit is always being done and undone, and architecture is perpetually the business of unfinished things—of phases, substantial completions, deferred maintenance, term contracts, weathering, kickoff meeting. How do you do with unfinished things?
Associated Thoughts: Growing
Progress and growth can be difficult to see. For architecture professionals at all stages of our careers, growth often happens little by little, in practicing small skills over and over, trying something slightly different, learning from the past.