Architects are natural storytellers. Creating a narrative to assist with the design process is fairly common, but some story's don't have anything to do with architecture.

Other than the Men’s toilet room, my desk is the furthest point in our office. Since I take full responsibility for the layout of my office, I am going to confess to you that I wanted my desk in the far back corner for a myriad of reasons.I would be the last person required to sign for packages,My desk is a “destination location.” Nobody walks by my desk on their way to something else,I walk by everybody else’s desk so that I can see what they are working on, andThis is the perfect location for storytelling.I’m not sure that “storytelling” is a consideration for most people when they are designing their architectural office, but for me it was a solid starting point. If I wasn’t trying to unfold “storytelling” as my topic for today, I would have made it number one on my list of architectural office design criteria. If I’m being completely honest, it’d probably be the number’s two, three and four reasons as well … except for office invasion, I’d probably still have that one somewhere on the list. I like to tell stories – most of which involve me looking silly. My predilections for telling stories works out okay if you have an outlet like I do … I don’t think you could have a website like Life of an Ar...