Here are "The Greatest Hits from Life of an Architect" ... with hits being a euphemism for visitor counts. Each of the following articles represents the most read articles on my site for 2016. Does that mean these are the best articles from 2016" Who knows, but I'll let you be the judge.

The end of the year is almost upon us and it is time to reflect back on last year – that a look at what worked, and what didn’t. Did you know I wrote 48 articles for this site last year" In the seven years that I have been writing articles here on Life of an Architect, that is my lowest output. I’d like to say that this is a matter of quality over quality, but that seems oddly self-serving. The truth is that I was busier this year than I have ever been and even writing one article a week proved to be challenging.I went back through every single article I wrote this year and ranked them according to all sorts of different metrics, things like word count, number of images processed, comments left, shares, views, etc. just to see if there was some sort of pattern that emerged. All that I discovered was that different types of posts resonated with different sorts of individuals. There were sketching posts, technical posts, career advice posts, and general observation type posts … none of which represented a category of runaway favorites, but they definitely had their own “user” group. Another pattern that showed up was that the effort I p...