“Re: Advice for a young architect” That was the subject line of one of the emails that came in over the weekend. Normally I don’t respond to the newest emails first (especially since I have about 400 still left to answer) but this one caught my eye and I decided to respond because the subject […]

“Re: Advice for a young architect” That was the subject line of one of the emails that came in over the weekend. Normally I don’t respond to the newest emails first (especially since I have about 400 still left to answer) but this one caught my eye and I decided to respond because the subject line had almost all of my trigger words. I should confess that I didn’t realize when I started writing this blog 7 years ago that I would spend more time answering emails than actually writing articles for the site. To be honest, I have hard time keeping up with the volume and I’ve undoubtedly disappointed a lot of people who didn’t know just how hard it is to answer every email (nobody asks “yes” or “no” questions) and all they really want is for someone to help them – maybe provide some guidance or insight.That doesn’t so unreasonable, does it" I didn’t think so either. So every now and then, I decide to turn those email responses into a blog post so that I can direct people to it rather than coming up with the same information time and time again. To that end, I received an email from...