Year: 2024

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What is a Measured Drawing? Why Does it Matter?

The Dictionary of Building Preservation, written by our own Ward Bucher, defines them as a set of drawings that accurately record an ...
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The Baltimore Paint Job

At the Preservation Maryland Phoenix Rising event, my guest Rick Brown asked me if I had considered writing an Appendix to the ...
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AIA Baltimore Tour: MacDonough Hall at the US Naval Academy

AIA Baltimore HRC Presents: A Tour of MacDonough Hall at the US Naval Academy November 2, 2024 CEU: 1.0 LU/HSW  (Limited to ...
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The End of the Line

Back in the 1950’s my parent’s house had a single landline shared with three other families. The clunky, rotary dial phone sat ...
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Opening a Business in a Historic Building  

Owner Ajay Patel, Montgomery County Executive Marc Erlich and Lead Architect Ward Bucher at the grand opening of Clarksburg Beer and Wine ...
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Design vs. Draft: Unraveling What Exactly an Architect Does

Sometimes we get a call for work, and the potential client says, “I need someone to draft some plans”. We can tell ...

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