The Resilient Architect
A free, burnout resilience newsletter for Architects. One actionable tactic each week to help you overcome chronic burnout, engineer self-awareness, and build a thriving career in architecture.
Stop sabotaging your architecture career š¤
February 24, 2025 Hello, Friend! Burnout isnāt just making you tired ā itās actively derailing your architecture career. As someone whoās coached hundreds of young architects through career transitions and burnout, Iāve seen firsthand how insidious burnout can be. It doesnāt just show up as exhaustion or Sunday night dread. It manifests in subtle ways that can completely derail your professional growth. The worst part? Most architects donāt realize itās happening until theyāre deep in the...
Why most Architects never reach their potential š
Did someone forward this to you?Join our valued community of ambitious Architect subscribers. Learn moreā September 28, 2026 Hey, Architect. Most Architects never ask themselves the hard questions that actually matter. We get caught up in project deadlines, client demands, and the daily grind of practice. We tell ourselves weāre too busy for introspection, too focused on āgetting things doneā to pause and examine whether weāre actually building the creative life we want. But hereās the...
11pm Archi-deadline crisis: stay or go? š¤
Did someone forward this to you?Join our valued community of ambitious Architect subscribers. Learn moreā September 21, 2026 Hey, Architect. Balance doesnāt mean shaking off responsibility. Especially when you know itās the right thing to do. I learned this the hard way after burning out early in my career, pushing myself to save every project, meet every impossible deadline, and be the hero who stayed until 2am fixing everyone elseās problems. Now Iāve found something better than blind...
42 Lessons about Life as an Architect š
Did someone forward this to you?Join our valued community of ambitious Architect subscribers. Learn moreā September 14, 2026 Hey, Architect. This past week, I turned 42. Not in the retirement home just yet.But not quite young anymore either. Iām not mad about it.Time has been great to me. As an Architect, a writer, a fiancĆ©, a brother, a pet dad, a creator, a mentor, a bowler, and a triathlete, Iāve learned a lot about myself and my creative life. Today, I thought Iād share what 42 years...
Q&A: Pushing through, your work or your relationship, the generation gap š¤
Did someone forward this to you?Join our valued community of ambitious Architect subscribers. Learn moreā September 7, 2026 Hey, Architect. Welcome to another Q&A with your friendly neighborhood Resilient Architect. Each month, I respond to the questions you want most about burnout, work-life balance, career development, and team management. Curated from Architects of all different experience levels, from Emerging Professionals, Mid-Career, and Firm Leaders. If you have a question youād like...
Why good Architects leave without a fight
Did someone forward this to you?Join our valued community of ambitious Architect subscribers. Learn moreā August 31, 2026 Hey, Architect. It may be hard to hear this, but the best Architect in your firm may leave without complaining once. It seemed like any other Thursday. Your strongest Project Architect asks for ten minutes. She closes the door, hands you a letter, and tells you her last day is in two weeks. New firm, similar work, twenty percent more money. You go back through a year of...
School taught you to defend. Not to lead. š©āš¼
Did someone forward this to you?Join our valued community of ambitious Architect subscribers. Learn moreā August 24, 2026 Hey, Architect. Architecture school builds excellent designers and almost no leaders. This time every year, a new class of Architecture students fills studios across the globe, ready to take on anything. In the months and years that follow, school will teach them how to craft strong theses, build epic portfolios, and develop creative skills. But thereās something missing....
What a friendās sudden passing taught me about resilience
Did someone forward this to you?Join our valued community of ambitious Architect subscribers. Learn moreā August 17, 2026 Hey, Architect. Today, I have one simple question. What really matters to you? This past week, I found out my friend Rob Szudzik passed away suddenly at 42 years old. He was a respected Architect here in Buffalo, a past AIA Chapter President and Board Member, and someone who spent years working to make the profession better for the people coming up behind him. Rob and I...
Q&A: Boundaries, promotions, and burnout š„
Did someone forward this to you?Join our valued community of ambitious Architect subscribers. Learn moreā August 10, 2026 Hey, Architect. Welcome to another Q&A with your friendly neighborhood Resilient Architect. Each month, I respond to the questions you most want answered about burnout, work-life balance, career development, and team management. Curated from Architects of all different experience levels, from Emerging Professionals, Mid-Career, and Firm Leaders. ā One reader wants to know...
The Odyssey, Resilience, and Architecture āµš
Did someone forward this to you?Join our valued community of ambitious Architect subscribers. Learn moreā August 3, 2026 Hey, Architect. Sometimes the most impactful lessons in our lives come from the oldest, timeless of tales. Imagine for a moment, youāre ten years into a project that shouldāve taken one. Your clientās exhausted.Your teamās running on fumes. And then, finally, you find the move that ends it. You take some shortcuts just to get it over with. You win.Everyone celebrates.But...
As an Architect, solutions get you hired. This gets you promoted. šØāš¼
Did someone forward this to you?Join our valued community of ambitious Architect subscribers. Learn moreā July 27, 2026 Hey, Architect. Nobody ever sits you down and tells you the real reason some Architects repeatedly get handed the hard projects, and others get handed the easy ones. But I will. For as long as I can remember, Iāve always been good at solving problems. For the first couple years of my career, thatās all I focused on. Give me a stair detail conflict, a code question, a client...
A free, burnout resilience newsletter for Architects. One actionable tactic each week to help you overcome chronic burnout, engineer self-awareness, and build a thriving career in architecture.