Today's post is inherently infused with "me-ness" ... which isn't a word. The word that most people would use is "style" which happens to be the topic for today.

“Style” is one of those words that can be used in many instances but typically has a very particular meaning to an architect. Just about everything we do is associated with some sort of style. I frequently hear people ask me if I can design a traditional style house or do I just design modern style houses … the answer is both, but that’s not the point of today’s post.A person can have a sense of style.A building can be designed in a particular style.A painting can be created in a particular style.To me, I think style is more about the personality of the individual and that each person’s “style” will come through in everything they do regardless of how it manifests itself. For example, I have a particular writing style on this site – and it just showed up once I started writing these blog posts. I didn’t look at a book or look at what other people were doing, I just started typing and my “style” just came out.One of the greatest compliments I receive on a fairly regular basis from people when they meet me, it that they’ll tell me that I am exactly like they imagined after they’ve read this site. I mentioned more times than I can recall that when I started writing Life of an Architect that I was not going to preten...