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BIM and the Human Condition
Craft is the pride one takes in making – making things – with one’s hands, mind and imagination. Two books that address craft – one recent and one published 50 years ago – help make clear the...
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55 Ways to Help You Evolve as an Architect
The architecture profession and construction industry are in transition. A transition largely driven by technology, but also driven by owners. Owners fed up with adversarial relations between team...
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107 Reasons Why You, Architect, Matter
We’re often asked to imagine life without people, life without buildings, even life without oil. But how about a world without architects? That’s not so hard to imagine. It’s easy if you’re...
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Maybe What the Architecture Profession Needs is a Small Heart Attack
What will it take for us to change? That’s the question I posed recently to a psychologist and a professor. First, it’s important to recognize that architecture is a conservative profession. We’re...
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Unlearning to Collaborate
Is the ability to collaborate something we are born with only later to forget? Are we wired to collaborate? Michael Tomasello in Why We Cooperate argues that we are – up until a certain age. Then –...
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Design in the Open
Shortlisted for a major project on the west coast, I’m going into a project interview in a couple days. With little interest in giving a dog and pony show, I want the meeting to be a working session....
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In Search of another Type of Architect
It sometimes seems as though there are two types of architects: those doing architecture and those leaving comments online. Lately, a number of my own comments left at various sites seem to stop the...
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The Collaborative Designer
Summary: You don’t need to be a designer to benefit from the best practices espoused in this magnificent new book. A must-have for designers, but also for those in project management and anyone who...
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Goodbye Architects. Hello Equal Partners in Design (EPD)
Whatever they end up doing in their careers, architects originally go into architecture to design buildings. Somewhere along the way – perhaps recognizing that other students or architects are more...
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A Handy Toolkit for A Great New Integrated World
Collaboration is no longer a “nice to have” skillset to take along in one’s toolkit. Collaboration is a must-have. In an industry not known for it’s warm relations, AEC practitioners need to build...
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