How does an architect communicate a design to a client in another country? #ArchitalksIE

As a regular contributor to the worldwide ‘Blogging Architect’ group #ArchiTalks; we have extended the concept as a separate Irish group of blogging architects with the hashtag #ArchTalksIE This first post is on the theme of ‘How does an architect Read More …

MarkStephensArchitects.com 2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 110,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at Read More …

#Passivhaus and Ironman Triathlon – the connection @WolfgangFeist mentioned

What possible connection could there be between the Passivhaus methodology and Triathlon? If you’re in the Passivhaus world then you couldn’t help but notice the split between The Passive House Institute based in Germany and the Passive House Institute US. Read More …

Vectorworks 101 Tips and Tricks Book for Kindle launched

Vectorworks- 101 Tips and Tricks by Mark Stephens RIBA MRIAI Launch of new Vectorworks book on Kindle: ‘Vectorworks – 101 Tips and Tricks’ Mark Stephens has trained literally thousands of users across the world to become more proficient with Vectorworks Read More …

A flurry of planning applications granted in same week, this is what they look like…

A wonder what the plural of planning applications is? Well I’m calling them a flurry and we’ve had 3 granted in same week this week. Below is a summary of each project together with the accompanying YouTube animation: 1. Contemporary Read More …

A day in the life of the Oxford School of Architecture 1985 (Oxford Poly as it was)

Sometimes you see something that really takes you back in time and this did it for me this morning… It probably wouldn’t make any sense unless you were there but sit back and enjoy ‘A day in the life of Read More …

Things you need to be as an architect – Steven Spielberg

I think this is going to turn into one of my series. I’ve already posted on how I use Vectorworks and YouTube to present schemes in 3D (Here it is again if you missed it) and they’re usually 3D flyover Read More …