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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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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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Menokin: Fiercely Ambitious 18th Century Historic Construction
The Wall Street Journal called the Menokin project “…the most fiercely ambitious historic restoration project in America today.” The project includes stabilizing ...