DEAR READER

You don’t need permission to begin. Not from a client. Not from a professor. Not even from yourself on a better day.

Architecture often seems like it starts with a commission, or a win, or a name on a door. But it really begins in notebooks. On walks. In the ideas that tug at you when no one’s watching. It begins in the models you make when you can’t sleep. In the drafts you never show. In the quiet resistance to “how things are usually done.”

Bobbie was made for those moments. The spaces before the result. The effort before the recognition.

We know what it feels like to want something else. To stay up late questioning your own work, your direction, or whether there’s even a place for the kind of practice you dream of. We know what it means to scroll through portfolios and awards and glossy photos, and still feel like your voice doesn’t quite fit in. That maybe you don’t want the office job. Or the ladder. Or the idea of success that was handed to you.

And that’s okay. It’s more than okay.

At Bobbie, we don’t just feature buildings that got built. We’re also interested in what didn’t. The sketches that live in drawers. The thesis project that still haunts you. The material test that went nowhere. The process is the point. The thinking itself is worth sharing.

We also look sideways. At alternative paths. At the architects who became writers, illustrators, educators, coders, curators and small business owners. There are so many ways to stay close to design. You don’t have to follow the map someone else drew. We’re building a new one.

So whether you’re just starting school, in your first real job, freelancing, changing careers, working nights and weekends or reimagining what architecture could be for you, this is for you.

No noise. No titles. No competition.

Just good work. Shared well.

Quietly shaping something better.

Come build it with us!

BOBBIE