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Mar 2022
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Ep 096: The Big Idea

BOB BORSON AND ANDREW HAWKINS
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Every good architecture project has a concept. Every. Single One. This is the Big Idea that you will build your entire project around and if you look at your project and can’t recognize it, you need to keep working until you’ve developed one. Today, Andrew and I will be discussing what this might mean and what it possibly looks like. 
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