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Preparing for a career fair is extremely important regardless of your career path. There are a few words of advice I have after going through career fairs from both ends: a student...
Communication is a huge part of the architectural profession. As an architect, your overall role is to be a leader of the design team, a representative of the owner, and a resource...
Punctuality is a major component of your professional career that you should master before graduating college regardless of your career path. There have been countless articles about...
In the profession there is always the pressure of deadlines with an endless list of tasks that need to get done. Understanding time management to get through a list of tasks by a particular...
Being a young architectural profession can be a bit confusing. You are finally free of school but still need to pass six exams, and “intern” for roughly three years. And after a minimum...
Architecture school can only teach you so much to prepare you for being your own architect and learning about the construction of buildings. Architecture is a profession heavily related...
One of the most important aspects of a company to most architectural professionals is office culture. As you work in different organizations you learn different parts of office culture...
While attending Build Pittsburgh 2017, which is an AIA event that brings together a variety of continuing education courses together. From the AIA Pittsburgh brochure, “Build Pittsburgh,...
Starting out at an architecture firm and being able to use BIM software is a huge benefit. Not to mention drawing in 3D can help you draft quicker but it can also help you catch coordination...
I was fortunate to join some of my colleagues on a little road trip back to our college stomping grounds. We are all Kent State College of Architecture of Environmental Design Alum,...
This is a reflection post written a month or so after attending the 2017 AIA Women’s Leadership Summit (WLS) in Washington D.C. The goal of the WLS is to, “Raise the profile of women...
My name is Katelyn (Katie) Rossier and I am a registered Architect from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This blog is started based on my passion for learning, mentoring, sharing, and growing...