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Replay – ‘A Growth Mindset’, with Ellen Bensky Jan 31, 2023

In this special replay episode, Ellen Bensky of Turner Fleischer Architects joins the podcast to talk about how she and her team built a teaching organization and a learning culture, their experience in how that effectively works within the construct of a firm, the benefits that result when a firm doesn't require its staff to have utilization targets, the difference between knowledge and data, who should teach in an organization, the importance of feedback loops, and more.

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Ellen Bensky on LinkedIn
Turner Fleischer Architects website
Turner Fleischer on LinkedIn
Turner Fleischer on Twitter
Ellen's KA Connect 2018 Presentation: The Hidden Benefits of Developing a Teaching Organization
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Replay – ‘Outcomes and Outputs’, with John Turner Jan 24, 2023

In this special replay episode, John Turner of Gafcon Digital joins the podcast to talk about digital twins and their value proposition in the total building lifecycle, who is—and who isn't—involved (that probably should be) in digital twins, risk aversion & business models, the internet of things & the internet of actions, the 'digital thread', and more.

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Digital Twin Consortium
Gafcon's Digital Twin/Cyberbuild Approach
Lean manufacturing (Wikipedia)
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Replay – ‘What Other Dials Do You Have to Turn’, with Phil Bernstein Jan 17, 2023

In this special replay episode, Phil Bernstein of the Yale School of Architecture joins the podcast to talk about teaching his pro practice course that encourages architecture students to push beyond the traditional business model, value propositions of architecture, encouraging collaboration when working in isolation, and much more.

Links

Phil Bernstein on Twitter
Phil’s ARCH 2230b course at Yale School of Architecture entitled Technology and Practice – Exploring New Value in Design Practice
Architecture | Design | Data – Practice Competency in the Era of Computation by Phillip Bernstein
Evan’s YouTube videos mentioning Phil’s inspiration
Paper Drawings Need to Die! (Digital Built Week Seattle 2019)
Architectural tech, practice, and education in Charleston!
Phil’s articles that elaborate more on the topics in this episode:
Phil Bernstein Shares Ten Thoughts on the Future of Practice
Why the Field of Architecture Needs a New Business Model
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Replay – ‘Punctuated Equilibrium’, with Anthony Hauck Jan 10, 2023

In this special replay episode, Anthony Hauck of HYPAR joins the podcast to talk about making the mark you want to make, pursuing something that feels more valuable, shared goals and value propositions in AEC, and more.

Links

Calamityware Mugs
DBEI (BiLT Conference)
Disruptive Technologies in Architecture – AIA Palm Beach Presentation – Nov 2020 (YouTube)
Architecture - Design - Data: Practice Competency in the Era of Computation by Phillip Bernstein
TRXL episode 003 with Ian Keough, CEO of Hypar
TRXL episode 028 with Brian Ringley, Construction Technology Manager at Boston Dynamics
Spacemaker
Book recommendations:
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
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Replay – ‘A Healthy Dose of Skepticism’, with Nathan Miller Jan 03, 2023

In this special replay episode, Nathan Miller of Proving Ground joins the podcast to talk about hobbies during the pandemic, the digital transformation of AEC, some drawbacks of generative design, privacy concerns with IoT devices and connected buildings, and so much more!

Links

Proving Ground web site
Computers are Hard blog post
Nathan Miller on Twitter
Nathan Miller on LinkedIn
Leading architecture firms pen open letter to Autodesk over rising costs, sluggish development (Archpaper)
Ender 3d Printer (Amazon)
Book recommendations:
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly (Bookshop)
The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind (Bookshop)
YouTube links and channel recommendations:
Nate's NXT BUILD 2020 presentation (YouTube)
Proving Ground's YouTube channel
Colin Furze
Adam Savage's Tested
The Hacksmith
Alien Exoskeleton
Lightsaber episode
TRXL episode 018: ‘That Perfect Kind of Venn Diagram’, with Dane Stokes
Project Anklebiter forum thread on 914 World
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Replay – ‘That Perfect Kind of Venn Diagram’, with Dane Stokes Dec 27, 2022

In this special replay episode, Dane Stokes of ZGF Architects joins the podcast to talk about his journey into architecture, being a 'computer person', design computation and automation, the importance of making things and working with your hands, custom fabrication, one-button buildings, having kids and failure, and much more.

Links

YourDesk University with Dane Stokes
Rhino.Inside by McNeel
AIA Technology and Practice community (TAP)
Colin Furze (YouTube)
Dane's website
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Replay – ‘Creating Opportunities for Collisions’, with Eric Reinholdt Dec 20, 2022

In this special replay episode, Eric Reinholdt of 30X40 Design Workshop joins the podcast to talk about why he started his YouTube channel, the keys to being productive, why getting away from architecture helps his process, the importance of making things, turning sources into resources, and much more.

Links

30x40 Design Workshop - Eric's web site
Eric's YouTube channel
A Choice to Make
Evan's YouTube channel
Archispeak at CONSTRUCT - YouTube as a productivity tool
Roosevelt's "The Man in the Arena"
Eric's books
Ira Glass on one's taste exceeding one's ability
Steve Jobs on connecting the dots
Dieter Rams
Werner Herzog and his Masterclass on Filmmaking
Peter Zumthor
Making versus managing
Five Finger Death Punch
In Flames (Swedish melodic death metal)
Nils Frahm
Coheed and Cambria
Derek Sivers podcast
Tom Hegen - photographer of impossible landscapes
FIRE movement - Financial Independence, Retire Early
The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage
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108: ‘Systematization Before Automation’, with Oliver David (OD) Krieg Dec 13, 2022

Oliver David (OD) Krieg of Intelligent City joins the podcast to talk about topics at the intersection of computational design, robotic fabrication, and turn-key urban housing as a product. We begin with OD’s journey from school at ICD in Germany to where he is currently at Intelligent City, the value and benefits of bottom-up as opposed to top-down initiatives, moving away from project thinking to a product company, navigating risk versus reward in manufacturing, design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) and industrialized construction, prefab in relation to mass timber highrise, density, housing, sustainability, and carbon neutrality, where parametric design fits into the process, the definition of parametric manufacturing and mass customization, what it’s like building an industry from scratch, building architecture on top of tech in relation to a tech-first company (versus a project-first or architecture-first company), and why systematization must occur before automation.

Links

OD on LinkedIn
OD on Twitter
OD on Instagram
OD’s website (highly recommended!)
Finger-jointed plate panel pavilion
Intelligent City website
Intelligent City on LinkedIn
Intelligent City on Twitter
Intelligent City on Instagram
CAD’s Boring Future and Why it’s Exciting by Daniel Davis (re: the fat middle)
Additional TRXL episodes referenced in the conversation:
TRXL 063 - ‘The Thicc Middle’, with Daniel Davis
TRXL 100 - ‘Negative Compound Interest’, with Paul Wintour
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107: ‘Quasi-Irreversible Investment’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo Dec 06, 2022

Anthony Frausto-Robledo of Architosh joins the podcast to talk about two of his recent articles highlighting Autodesk. The first article is an interview with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost and the topic is their Autodesk University announcement of the next generation industry cloud platform for AEC called Forma. The second article is about the recent Nordic Open Letter penned by several significant architectural associations that was recently delivered to Autodesk’s CEO regarding Revit development and value as subscription costs have continued to rise. We also discuss a bit of Disruption Theory, network effects and positive externalities, switching costs and the sunk cost fallacy, how academia fits into the puzzle of technology training and the profession’s expectations, how technology developers fit into the puzzle of professional practice operations in regards to dependency on the tech to fulfill business deliverables, dominance and power, Superman syndrome, and a short lesson in railroad track gauges.

Links

Anthony on LinkedIn
Anthony on Twitter
Architosh website
Anthony's free Xpresso email newsletter
Architosh on LinkedIn
Architosh on Instagram
Autodesk Begins New Era for Future of Architecture (Architosh)
The Revit Open Letter Through the Lens of QWERTY-Nomics (Architosh)
Nordic Open Letter (AEC Mag)
European Open Letter (AEC Mag)
Clayton Christensen's theory on innovative disruption (Wikipedia)
Sunk cost fallacy explained
Economist Paul A. David's landmark Clio and the Economics of QWERTY
European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) position paper on lack of competition in the AEC software industry
How to lose a monopoly (Benedict Evans)
Nobody Gets Fired For Buying IBM (Forbes)
A History of Track Gauge
Why BART system uses wider gauge
Previous TRXL episodes featuring Anthony:
TRXL 012 – ‘Force Multipliers’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo
TRXL 022 – ‘Turbo Boost Mood’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo
TRXL 023 – ‘One More Thing’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo
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106: ‘Aligning Ambitious Ideas’, with Gabe Paez Nov 29, 2022

Gabe Paez of Autodesk joins the podcast to talk about the intersection of humans and immersive technologies, the magic of experiencing ideas together, shared reality, the difficulty of change in relation to new tools and workflows, the value of working in different ways, the (controversial) notion of having fun at work, Extended Reality (XR) as it relates to remote work, shortening the distance between an idea and an experience, experiential tools, the value of collaboration, synchronous and asynchronous work on projects, interactive and manipulatable environments, persistence of virtual environments, and more.

Links

Gabe on LinkedIn
Gabe on Twitter
Autodesk on LinkedIn
Autodesk on Twitter
Autodesk on Instagram
Autodesk Extended Reality (XR)
The Wild website
IrisVR website
TRXL 065: ‘Designing the Designer’, with Andreea Cojocaru
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105: ‘Pick Your Niche’, with Ian Janicki Nov 22, 2022

Ian Janicki of Homestead joins the podcast to talk about what architecture schools have been and still are focused on versus what opportunities exist because of recent changes in legislation (California’s SB 9), the importance of infill—especially for solving the housing crisis, why architects should consider learning real estate, how to make more developers, entrepreneurship in the architectural profession, making the case for why we should be wrapping our collective heads around the potential of architecture as product and how to scale an idea to affect change, how to protect a business to avoid what Ian calls “the lumpiness of the profession”, NIMBY-ism and YIMBY-ism, and more.

Links

Ian’s Calendly
Architect & Developer: A Guide to Self-Initiating Projects by James Petty AIA (Amazon)
Otto ADU website
California Senate Bill 9 (The California Home Act)
Ian on LinkedIn
Ian on Twitter
Homestead website
Homestead on Twitter
Homestead on LinkedIn
Previous TRXL episodes referenced in the conversation:
046: ‘The Moment’, with Ian Janicki
067: ‘Ignoring the Warning Signs’, with Samuel Schneider of Homestead
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104: ‘Going Deeper Than the Surface We’re Scratching’, with Michael Ermann Nov 15, 2022

Michael Ermann of Virginia Tech and Amber Book joins the podcast to talk about intuition and meaning, the necessity for architects to go deeper than ever before, how the profession is ignoring market forces, and we have a critical conversation about architectural education and practice.

Links

Michael on LinkedIn
Michael’s website
Michael & Amber Book on Twitter
Amber Book website
Amber Book on Instagram
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103: ‘Through the Abstraction Ladder’, with Kyle Bernhardt Nov 08, 2022

Kyle Bernhardt of TestFit joins the podcast to talk about his career spanning from school to Autodesk to TestFit, leadership, communication, bridging between different groups within an organization, discussion about the unchangeable soul of an app, reducing friction in our processes, addressing unmet expectations, new chapters and new opportunities during one’s career, and so much more.

Links

Kyle on LinkedIn
Kyle on Twitter
TestFit website
TestFit on LinkedIn
TestFit on Twitter
TestFit REX (Real Estate Execution Model) blog post
Clifton Harness (CEO of TestFit) on TRXL
TRXL 005: ’BIM is a T-Rex‘, with Clifton Harness
TRXL 048: ‘How it Started; How it’s Going’, with Ian Keough and Clifton Harness
TRXL 067: ‘Ignoring the Warning Signs’, with Samuel Schneider (Financial approach in architecture reference)
Archispeak 279: An Indictment of the Built Environment (Heatherwick article reference)
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102: ‘There’s So Much to Do’, with Doris Sung Nov 01, 2022

Doris Sung of DOSU Studio Architecture joins the podcast to talk about her research and entrepreneurial forays into smart materials and more specifically her work with thermal bi-metal, her journey creating building products that don’t require electrical or mechanical infrastructure, teaching in architecture and the upcoming USC undergraduate degree for entrepreneurialism, and more.

Links

Doris on LinkedIn
DOSU Studio on Twitter
DOSU Studio on Instagram
DOSU Studio website
TBM self-shading window systems
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101: ‘Finding Better Ways’, with Jordan Rogove and Wayne Norbeck Oct 25, 2022

Special guests Jordan Rogove and Wayne Norbeck lead two NYC-based firms: DXA Studio and Liv Connected. They join the podcast to talk about using prefab modular as a strategy for the delivery of productized architecture, how architecture can save people’s lives, the ‘volumetric modular’ system they’ve developed, the benefits of prefab, the value of their tight collaboration with a dedicated and experienced fabrication outfit, the importance of creating a sense of purpose in their work, and more.

Links

Jordan on LinkedIn
Wayne on LinkedIn
DXA studio website
DXA studio on LinkedIn
DXA studio on Instagram
Liv Connected website
Liv Connected on LinkedIn
Liv Connected on Instagram
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100: ‘Negative Compound Interest’, with Paul Wintour Oct 18, 2022

Special guest Paul Wintour of Parametric Monkey joins the podcast to talk about his description of the gap that exists in the profession between innovation and adoption, just how far behind we really are and how much work there is to do to catch up, technical debt in architectural practice, the reality that most digital tools that are developed in firms are incomplete and unused, transactions versus relationships, recalibrating practice, and more.

Links

TRXL Episode Database (TED)
Paul on LinkedIn
Parametric Monkey website
Parametric Monkey on LinkedIn
Parametric Monkey on Twitter
Technical Debt: Architecture’s Ticking Time Bomb by Paul Wintour
Incomplete and unused: Design Technology’s dirty secret by Paul Wintour
Why Companies Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation by Steve Blank (Harvard Business Review)
Donald Rumsfeld’s quote on known unknowns (goodreads)
TRXL 093: ‘Continuous Improvement Culture’, with Matt Wash
Metric Monkey
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099: ‘Permission for a New Paradigm’, with Adam Wilbrecht Oct 11, 2022

Special guest Adam Wilbrecht of ConcertVDC joins the podcast to talk about the new AIA 2022 digital practice documents that now allow for digital media to be accountable, model to manufacturing, digital delivery, the larger life of data and how it can push into the full project lifecycle, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), blockchain, right of reliance, ISO 19650, and more.

Links

tect.com/join - Help Evan and add your name to the list
Adam Wilbrecht on LinkedIn
ConcertVDC website
r/architecture (Reddit)
Non-fungible token (NFT) (Wikipedia)
TRXL 027: ‘Turning Validation into Actuation’, with Adam Wilbrecht
The New Economics of Design (Concert blog)
AIA 2022 Digital Practice Documents
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) (Deloitte)
Blockchain (Wikipedia)
Dusty Robotics website
ISO 19650
Marlon Blackwell’s Lawsuit Sets the Bar for Design Copyright by Phil Bernstein, FAIA
TRXL 033: ‘What Other Dials Do You Have to Turn’, with Phil Bernstein
The Future of the Professions by Richard and Daniel Susskind (Amazon)
Architecture | Design | Data by Phil Bernstein, FAIA (Amazon)
Randy Deutsch’s website
TRXL 004: ’What Else You Got‘, with Randy Deutsch
TRXL 042: ‘When You Zoom Out’, with Randy Deutsch
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098: ‘Democratizing Design Freedom’, with Platt Boyd Oct 04, 2022

Special guest Platt Boyd of Branch Technology joins the podcast to talk about how the company began, their purpose, working with robotics, cellular fabrication, parametric design and design freedom, their cross-disciplinary team, innovation through collaboration, stewardship, leadership and core values, focus, what’s next, and more.

Links

Platt on LinkedIn
Platt on Twitter
Branch Technology website
Branch Technology on LinkedIn
Branch Technology on Twitter
Branch Technology on Instagram
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097: ‘Compounding Effects’, with Nat MacDonald Sep 27, 2022

Special guest Nat MacDonald of TestFit joins the podcast to talk about how Nat defines what he calls the people-process-problem, what it means to be a product manager at TestFit, the evolution of TestFit as a generative platform from parking all the way to residential subdivision (what they call “from towers to town homes”), the magic of the software, the future of a better feasibility ecosystem with their upcoming REX product, some real talk about the fragmentation of the industry and how messy the problem really is, and more.

Links

Nat on LinkedIn
Nat on Twitter
TestFit website
TestFit on LinkedIn
TestFit on Twitter
TestFit on Instagram
OVERKILL (AutoCad command)
Nat’s Twitter thread
The Hustle Architect on Twitter
TestFit REX - Building A Better Feasibility Ecosystem: The Real Estate Execution (REX) Model
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096: ‘Carapace Pavilion’, with Douglas Noble Sep 20, 2022

Special guest Douglas Noble of the USC School of Architecture joins the podcast to talk about a student-led design, fabrication, and construction project that was recently installed in Joshua Tree National Park. We cover the entire process including design, the technology involved, collaboration with consultants, working with the thin shell concrete prefab team at Clark Pacific, logistics and transportation, and installation.

Links

Doug on LinkedIn
Doug on Twitter
Doug on Instagram
USC on LinkedIn
USC School of Architecture website
USC School of Architecture on Twitter
Carapace Pavilion
Installation time-lapse video
USC Architecture Students Built This: The Carapace Pavilion
The Carapace Pavilion Points North (LinkedIn)
Secrets of the Carapace: Apertures (LinkedIn)
Secrets of the Carapace: Shadows (LinkedIn)
Carapace Pavilion vs Boeing 737 (LinkedIn)
Carapace Pavilion: Framing Two Views (LinkedIn)
Carapace Pavilion: Shell Thickness (LinkedIn)
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095: ‘Super Janky’, with John Pierson Sep 13, 2022

Special guest John Pierson of Parallax Team joins the podcast to talk about the history of his blog and how he made a name for himself through his contributions to the open source design technology community, the origin story of how he became interested in Dynamo and Revit and where that path has led, John’s favorite Dynamo packages, developing tools in the open source community, and more.

Links

John on LinkedIn
John on Twitter
Parallax Team website
Parallax Team on LinkedIn
Parallax Team on Twitter
Link to the Revit add-ins John mentioned (GitHub)
John’s Dynamo packages Rhythm and Monocle
Autodesk University
John’s recommended Dynamo packages: Clockwork, Archi+lab, Spring Nodes, Lunchbox
Hypar
r/place (Reddit)
More TRXL Podcast episodes
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094: ‘Reinventing the Wheel’, with Johan Hanegraaf Sep 06, 2022

Special guest Johan Hanegraaf of Arkio joins the podcast to talk about developing design tools for a fully immersive VR environment with new paradigms in UI/UX when combined with 6 degrees of freedom, the values and real world application of real-time spatial collaboration, real-time remote collaboration without a ‘sync button’, the current and next iteration of VR hardware, and more.

Links

Johan on LinkedIn
Johan on Twitter
Arkio website
Arkio on LinkedIn
Arkio on Twitter
Arkio on Instagram
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093: ‘Continuous Improvement Culture’, with Matt Wash Aug 30, 2022

Special guest Matt Wash of Bimbeats joins the podcast to talk about how architecture and engineering firms are (or in many cases are not) quantifying inefficient workflows and what that means to their businesses—not just for the bottom line but also for the quality of the staff experience, the real and potential benefits of data analysis on projects and the skills, tools, workflows, and behaviors used to deliver them, the massive amount of duplication of work in the industry and what can be done about removing the waste in order to make room to add value back into the system, change management in regard to technology within firms, the health of the business and the real impact it has on the potential to improve people’s lives who are doing the work, and more.

Links

Matt on LinkedIn
Matt on Twitter
Bimbeats website
Bimbeats on Twitter
Bimbeats on LinkedIn
Paul Wintour’s blog articles: Incomplete and unused: Design Technology’s dirty secret & Technical debt: Architecture’s ticking time bomb
Schedule a demo of Bimbeats
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092: ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’, with Roderick Bates Aug 23, 2022

Special guest Roderick Bates of Enscape joins the podcast to talk about his current research foray into the Metaverse including the different locations that exist today, the potential the Metaverse may or may not have for architects and what value they could bring to it, some of the ethical implications architects practicing or creating content for the Metaverse should be thinking about, the positive and negative impacts of immersion including the possibility for manipulation in these kinds of environments, the architectural tech stack currently needed to become a creator in the Metaverse, proactive architectural business model opportunities in relation to the Metaverse, and more.

Links

Roderick on LinkedIn
Webinar: Digital Twins, Metaverse, Carbon Awareness: Trends Impacting AEC in 2022 and Beyond by Roderick Bates (Enscape blog)
Enscape release 3.4
Enscape for Mac
Mona (Official Discord server for the Mona Metaverse)
Decentraland (Official Discord server for the Decentraland Metaverse)
Somnium Space (Official Discord server for the Somnium Space Metaverse)
Cryptovoxels | Invite link (Official Discord server for the Cryptovoxels Metaverse)
The Sandbox (Official Discord server for the The Sandbox Metaverse)
Renovi (Discord server for Renovi, a NFT marketplace for architects, 3D designers and developers in the Metaverse)
Architecting the Metaverse | Invite link (Community about architecting the metaverse on Discord)
MetaArchitects Hub (Platform-agnostic community for building and developing Metaverse Architecture on Discord)
r/Architecture (Reddit community Discord channel specifically for the Metaverse)
Elders React to HTC Vive VR (YouTube)
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091: ‘We’re Not Serious Enough’, with Mostapha Roudsari Aug 16, 2022

Special guest Mostapha Roudsari of Ladybug Tools joins the podcast to talk about the evolution of AEC design software, whether architects are asking the right questions during design, why design optimization matters in architecture especially in relation to climate change and resiliency, the origin and evolution of Ladybug Tools and their new Pollination apps and cloud service, and more.

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090: ‘Seeing the Patterns’, with Roman Gorshkov Aug 09, 2022

Special guest Roman Gorshkov of Kettle Collective and The Brief joins the podcast to talk about the reasons why they have invested in the development of The Brief (links below) in an effort to help their developer clients visualize the numbers of the project in more meaningful ways some of which include enhancing the decision-making process and to aid in making design changes less painful for the people doing the work on the project. We also talk about how Roman got his start in design technology with Rhino and Grasshopper and was inspired along the way by tools like City Engine, and how and why he went the route of using Unity as a development platform to ultimately put The Brief on iPads. And finally, we talk about a few apps on iPad that round out a useful design-centric ecosystem.

Links

Roman on LinkedIn
The Brief Space on LinkedIn
The Brief Space website
Kettle Collective website
Kettle Collective on LinkedIn
Kettle Colective on Twitter
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089: ‘Pick Your Battles’, with Altaf Ganihar Aug 02, 2022

Special guest Altaf Ganihar of Snaptrude joins the podcast to talk about the lack of empathy within architectural firm leadership and the staff who are doing the work, the convergence of design tools, how entrenched the profession is in “the way we’ve always done things”, the importance of feedback loops in project design and software development, how important synchronous and/or asynchronous collaboration is in modern design software, what some strategies are that can be employed in a firm to switch from one software platform to another (an enormous hurdle in the profession no matter the size of the firm), the idea of a “building operating system for construction”, and more.

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088: ‘It All Dies on the Same Hill’, with Jason Gardner Jul 26, 2022

Special guest Jason Gardner of Populous joins the podcast to talk about the people side of the business when it comes to implementing technology in an architectural practice. Also discussed: the personal experience of clients, the internal design team, and sporting event fans in the context of technology used to solve problems and deliver architectural projects; the impacts of more tech versus less tech on the people who work in an architectural practice; how their technology team goes about implementing tech in an international design firm; how Populous goes beyond architecture in the services they offer; and more.

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SoFi Stadium (ArchDaily)
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087: ‘The Drumbeat of Change’, with Robert DeMillo and Jilbert El-Zmetr Jul 19, 2022

Special guests Robert DeMillo and Jilbert El-Zmetr join the podcast to talk about why they were interested in solving problems in AEC with their varying technology backgrounds, their vision and implementation of a bespoke cloud computing platform, why it was important for the firm to take team collaboration to the next level via the cloud, and more.

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086: ‘Here to Do the Hard Thing’, with Robert Yuen Jun 07, 2022

Special guest Robert Yuen of Monograph joins the podcast to talk about wide-ranging topics including leadership in the profession and how it’s often mistakenly designated by seniority or title, how to protect firm culture, and how Monograph is designing productivity apps for architects that focus on the experience and are as frictionless as possible. We also touch on Monograph’s ‘Section Cut’ conference and ongoing podcast and webinar series, their willingness to create and curate a Practice Operations (#PracticeOps) resource library for the profession, and so much more.

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Robert on LinkedIn
Robert on Twitter
Monograph website
Monograph’s podcast
Monograph’s webinars
Monograph’s resource & reference library
Monograph on LinkedIn
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Archispeak 267: Experiences with Starlink on the road
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085: ‘The Rigor of Information’, with Wassim Jabi May 31, 2022

Special guest Wassim Jabi of Topologic BIM joins the podcast to talk about how Topologic grew out of a need to build lightweight models that are adept at representing space rather than merely components and assemblies of manufactured parts, the notion of a spatial vocabulary and creating a ‘dictionary of dictionaries’ in architectural design software, why the concepts in Topologic have incredible utility for practitioners today, the value of Topologic and the library being open source, how it works and what the existing platforms that it works within are (including the excitement around other open source software including FreeCAD, Blender, and BlenderBIM), making the case for why there’s no risk in using open source software, why the Topologic team is rethinking the BIM process by going from simplicity to complexity rather than how other BIM platforms force us to make something complex up front which in turn makes it more difficult to change things later, how this approach gives the design team the ability to ask the model questions and get meaningful answers, the idea of ‘material passports’ and the blockchain, how digital twins fit into this from an owner’s point of view, where things might be headed in the future with this groundwork that’s been laid, and more.

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Wassim on Twitter
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Topologic website
Wassim & Topologic on GitHub
Wassim Jabi on YourDesk University (YouTube)
Parametric Design for Architecture by Wassim Jabi (Amazon)
TestFit
Blender
BlenderBIM
Sverchok add-on for Blender (GitHub)
Speckle Systems
Open Cascade
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084: ‘There’s No One to Blame’, with Eitan Tsarfati May 24, 2022

Special guest Eitan Tsarfati of Swapp joins the podcast to talk about the value proposition of the training and role of an architect (and the practice of architecture in general) in regards to solving complex problems versus spending valuable time drafting, the role that tools currently play in the architectural practice and how it could be very different, existing business models including the ‘time-for-money paradox’ most firms operate within and how AI and automation is significantly challenging the status quo, how his latest venture called SWAPP is capable of doing in seconds what has traditionally taken weeks or months, and more.

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Eitan on LinkedIn
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Smiling curve (Wikipedia)
Smiling curve diagram - value added along the global value chain (ResearchGate)
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083: ‘The First Slap in the Face’, with Paul Petrunia May 17, 2022

Special guest Paul Petrunia of Archinect joins the podcast to talk about the so-called early days of the internet and how Archinect began coinciding with Paul’s architectural education at SCI-Arc. But the real reason for talking with Paul was to dig into why Archinect was originally started and how the community has evolved over the years—especially in the larger landscape of social media, podcasting, and blogging.

We also discuss the role of an entity like Archinect having and expressing their values on the internet as guideposts for a community, the idea of YourName versus pseudonyms on platforms in regards to expressing one’s thoughts and cancel culture, the civility or lack thereof in conversations online today, the different ways in which people communicate online, the underpinnings of the counterculture at SCI-Arc and Archinect, the effects of social media on one’s mental health, and so much more.

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Paul on LinkedIn
Archinect website
Controversy at SCI-Arc over labor practices leads to faculty members placed on leave. Isolated incident or a wake up call for the industry at large?
The SCI-Arc toxic culture topic on Archispeak: episode 260 & episode 262
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082: ‘Everything Going According to Plan’, with Reid Senescu May 10, 2022

Special guest Reid Senescu of Doxel AI joins the podcast to talk about his path from structural engineer to VP of Product, how and why the company has pivoted in the last few years, how they use machine learning and computer vision to scan buildings in a fraction of the time than was previously required on site, how the BIM model plays a role in their service, who their current and future customers are, efficiencies gained in the construction scheduling space with their tech, how Doxel is positioned to be known as the ‘decision fabric’ of a construction project, how their products could play a role in providing a feedback loop for architects and other members of the design team, and more.

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081: ‘Give Me the Tools I Need’, with Josh Weiss May 03, 2022

Special guest Josh Weiss of LA Creative Technologies joins the podcast to talk about getting the word out about the basic best practices in IT that have emerged in the last couple of years (read: due to Covid-19, WFH, and hybrid work) in regards to technology as an investment versus expense, privacy, and security, the risks and rewards of being in the cloud, hardware and software setup recommendations, leasing versus buying hardware, recommended A/V setups for working from anywhere, cloud-based file management and collaboration software, two-factor authentication (2FA), password managers, project information management software, and even building access control recommendations.

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Josh on LinkedIn
LA Creative Technologies website
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Meeting Owl Pro (360 meeting room camera & mic)
Egnyte (file system in the cloud + on premises)
Miro (collaborative whiteboarding)
TonicDM (Project Information Management)
Authy (two-factor authentication)
Keeper (password & secrets manager)
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080: ‘All of the Clouds’, with Randall Stevens Apr 26, 2022

Special guest Randall Stevens of AVAIL joins the podcast to talk about the inner day-to-day workflows of architecture and engineering professionals, teams, and offices. Randall quantifies the large number of software titles used and talks about the ways in which we deal with the enormous amount of data that we create. The age-old question of ‘where do I put my stuff’ is still alive and well, and in this episode we talk about how his team is working on that issue, among others. We also talk about the struggle of knowledge capture, encoding knowledge, the problem with turnover in the industry, pattern recognition, and more.

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Randall on LinkedIn
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AVAIL website
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TRXL podcast episode 51: ‘A Closet Full of Hats’, with Randall Stevens
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079: ‘Changing the Relationship’, with Greg Schleusner Apr 19, 2022

Special guest Greg Schleusner of HOK joins the podcast to talk about the fact that the software we all use to do our architectural projects is a major barrier to creativity and productivity. The question is... can something be done about it? In other words, BIM is bust! Now what?

Links

Greg on LinkedIn
Greg on Twitter
HOK website
HOK on LinkedIn
HOK on Twitter
Recommended watching/reading:
Greg Schleusner’s NXT BLD 2021 Presentation: Creating Balance
BIM is bust: how should AEC data work? by Martyn Day at AEC Magazine
buildingSMART International - Technical Room
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078: ‘Bringing the Magic Back’, with Paul O’Carroll Apr 12, 2022

Special guest Paul O’Carroll of Arcol Technology joins the podcast to talk about the upcoming and highly-anticipated Arcol BIM platform, their core values including what Paul refers to as “first principles thinking”, the table stakes of any modern BIM platform, why being opinionated is important in software development, why Paul and team are choosing themselves to solve the problem of ‘bringing the magic back’ to BIM, and architectural modeling & documentation software in general, and more.

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Arcol waitlist
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077: ‘Be a Beginner Again’, with Keith Huser Apr 05, 2022

Special guest Keith Huser of Peak Projects joins the podcast to talk about owner representation and advocacy, the importance of speaking the languages of design, construction, and effectively translating that for an owner, the highly sought after position of being considered a trusted advisor, getting pushed out of one’s comfort zone, finding joy in the process of a project (and a career), the 3 types of project managers, and more.

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Peak Projects website
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076: ‘The Answer’s Always Yes’, with René Morkos Mar 29, 2022

Special guest René Morkos of Alice Technologies joins the podcast to talk about his path to ALICE via construction sites and academia, the key elements of construction scheduling and optimization and how AI plays its role in it, the idea of technology as master builder, the idea of the innovation ecosystem, LOD, BIM, and VDC, and more.

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René on LinkedIn
ALICE on LinkedIn
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ALICE website
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins (Amazon)
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075: ‘Architecture as a Hobby’, with Thom Chuparkoff Mar 22, 2022

Special guest Thom Chuparkoff of OSPORTS joins the podcast to talk about prefab as an architectural strategy, architectural structures that can be erected and later taken apart, the notion of thriving on problem-solving, thinking about architectural projects at a deeper level when it comes to delivering them via prefab, the point at which he began thinking about using prefab as a strategy, why he pursued it and continues to pursue it, technology as an enabler to the adaptability of his firm, and more.

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Thom on LinkedIn
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OSPORTS on LinkedIn
OSPORTS website
How to create complex building structures using prefab strategies (BDC Network)
Hypar
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074: ‘Priorities Shift’, with Rita Saikali Carter Mar 15, 2022

Special guest Rita Saikali Carter of DLR Group joins the podcast to talk about the issue of loyalty to an architecture firm versus the stigma of moving to different firms for various reasons including career goals, flexibility, and work/life balance, project experience, exciting project opportunities and curating a résumé, leadership opportunities, getting out of your comfort zone, finding your calling, salary and benefits, culture fit, and changing priorities in life.

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Rita on LinkedIn
DLR Group website
AIA Orange County website
Women in Architecture (WIA)
Cal Poly Pomona - College of Environmental Design website
Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less (Forbes)
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073 - ‘Design, Equity, & Data’, with Nick Cameron Mar 08, 2022

Special guest Nick Cameron of Perkins+Will joins the podcast to talk about a recent virtual AIA Technology and Practice (TAP) panel discussion on data, equity, and design—three important, overlapping categories that all architects and planners should be thinking about on every project.

The event was moderated by Evan Troxel, AIA with expert panelists Dawne David-Pierre of Moody Nolan, Elizabeth Christoforetti of Supernormal, and Gautam Sundaram of Perkins+Will and is being rebroadcasted with additional content from the organizer and moderator in this special episode.

Topics discussed include identification of widely-known and useful data sources and tools for firms of all sizes to be aware of, the possible negative consequences or dangerous outcomes of the way data is collected and then presented today, what are some biases and gaps in the data one would know about, what are good questions to ask when beginning to work with data, what design professionals can do to help address the shortcomings of existing data, and more.

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072: ‘One Model to Rule Them All’, with Theodoros Galanos Mar 01, 2022

Special guest Theodoros Galanos of ArchiText joins the podcast to talk about artificial intelligence (AI) as it relates to architectural design using written language. More specifically, we talk about how his ArchiText tool is beginning by generating residential floor plan layouts now and where it may go in the future. We also talk about this in the context of democratizing design, how he trained the language model, what biases and gaps potentially exist in the data used for the training, the vision of end-to-end design workflows, what this could mean for the future of the profession, how he got started down this path, the notion of AI as oracles, deep learning models, and more.

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Theodoros on Twitter
Theodoros on LinkedIn
ArchiText website
ArchiText on Twitter
Eleuther AI
CLIP
GPT-3
Grasshopper
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071: ‘Trust But Verify’, with Roderick Bates Feb 22, 2022

Special guest Roderick Bates of Enscape joins the podcast to talk about his interesting path to architecture and technology through sustainability, the importance of lateral thinking, why architects should about the ethical outcomes of the projects they work on, the general challenge of communication that architects face, and how Roderick is applying his scientific and research approach to the field of visualization and more specifically real time rendering at Enscape.

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Roderick on LinkedIn
Enscape website
Enscape on LinkedIn
KieranTimberlake website
Billie Faircloth
Tally Life Cycle Assessment App
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070 : ‘Finding Better Analogies’, with Jose Cruz, Jr Feb 15, 2022

Special guest Jose Cruz, Jr of Integrated Projects joins the podcast to talk about the value he sees in the service he’s created for digitizing “background buildings” and how his team is creating this resource using reality capture technologies, how digital twins of existing building stock has the potential to add value and jumpstart future projects that owners hire design teams and architects for, his Layer Zero analogy, and more.

Links

José on LinkedIn
José on Twitter
Integrated Projects website
Integrated Projects on LinkedIn
Architects Are the Latest White-Collar Workers to Confront Bosses (New York Times)
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ArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.

069: ‘Always Step Up to the Plate’, with Christian Giordano Feb 08, 2022

Special guest Christian Giordano of Mancini Duffy joins the podcast to talk about how he came to the 100-year-old firm with a vision to modernize Mancini Duffy, how he ultimately changed the firm’s approach to emphasize the use of technology to transform the way designers across disciplines work, why he launched a research & development incubator—dubbed the Design Lab—to bring together designers, technologists, and clients to leverage various technologies to support their practice and to break barriers he saw that were limiting their design capabilities, and more.

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Christian on LinkedIn
Mancini Duffy website
Christian’s The Anti-Architect Podcast (Apple Podcasts link)
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Enscape is a real-time rendering and VR tool for the AEC market. It empowers design workflows by plugging into building modeling software and turning the models into immersive 3D experiences. Visit enscape3d.com/trxl to sign up for a free 14-day trial.

ArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.

068: ‘A Wealth of Abandoned Ideas’, with Shane Burger Feb 01, 2022

Special guest Shane Burger of Woods Bagot joins the podcast to talk about how he stays in contact with the global team at Woods Boagot, how he responds to the wide-ranging needs of the technology users in their international architecture firm, how cross pollination happens between teams and offices, how Shane is a huge fan of note-taking, what tools are his favorite and why, and so much more.

Links

Shane’s website
Shane on Twitter
Shane on LinkedIn
Woods Bagot website
Woods Bagot on Twitter
Woods Bagot on LinkedIn
Woods Bagot on Instagram
The State of Burnout in Architecture (2021) (Monograph's blog)
Shane’s talk with Monograph: How To Increase the Impact of Digital Culture (YouTube)
Roam Research website
Gordon Brander (Substack)
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett (Amazon)
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle (Amazon)
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull (Amazon)
Gemba Walk
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067: ‘Ignoring the Warning Signs’, with Samuel Schneider Jan 25, 2022

Special guest Samuel Schneider of Homestead joins the podcast to talk about his experience at MIT’s graduate School of Architecture and City Planning and where his interests lie, how he fared in traditional practice, how Homestead began in the ADU space and has changed recently because of SB9, what architects need to understand about people and clients & how they think about spending money, how technology plays a role in Homestead’s offerings, how they offer space as a product, and much more.

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Sam on LinkedIn
Homestead on LinkedIn
Homestead’s website
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066: ‘Pushing Against A Cotton Ball’, with Atif Qadir Dec 14, 2021

Special guest Atif Qadir of REDIST joins the podcast to talk about his mission to aggregate and redistribute financial and near-monetary incentives in the real estate development space, the lack of coordination between governmental agencies' data, how he built a team and leverages their superpowers, how his career led to REDIST coming from an architectural background, and more.

Links

Atif on LinkedIn
REDIST website
REDIST on LinkedIn
American Building Podcast
OK Computer Lecture Series: Autonomous Vehicles (YouTube)
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065: ‘Designing the Designer‘, with Andreea Cojocaru Dec 07, 2021

Special guest Andreea Cojocaru of NUMENA joins the podcast to talk about her company of coding architects and their work with their varied client types, synthetic immersive reality's affect on their practice over time, the 'real you' and the 'phenomenal you' when it comes to experience, the overuse of the word "experience" in mixed reality, how neuroscience and philosophy provide a framing for the profound ramifications of design and spatial experiences, whether architects and the profession will have relevance in the future, how tools have advanced down the abstraction ladder, VR's ability to give a project stakeholder/owner/client agency—and perhaps more importantly—authoring ability, and more.

Links

Andreea's website
Andreea on LinkedIn
Andreea on Twitter
NUMENA website
NUMENA on LinkedIn
NUMENA on Twitter
Peter Eisenmann (Wikipedia)
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064: ‘You Need to Let Go‘, with Jason Addy Nov 30, 2021

Special guest Jason Addy of Neoscape joins the podcast to talk about how architects communicate and how clients experience architectural design before projects are built from a value-added partner's perspective. We also talk about his vast experience working in the ArchViz profession, what it's like working with his team on a project, what architects need to do to enhance the process, how the industry has evolved over the last 2 decades, what their R+D department is working on, and more.

Links

Jason on LinkedIn
Neoscape website
Radlab
Neoscape on LinkedIn
Neoscape on Instagram
Igloo
First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy (YouTube)
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063: ‘The Thicc Middle‘, with Daniel Davis Nov 23, 2021

Special guest Daniel Davis of Hassell joins the podcast to talk about his latest blog post about CAD's boring future and why it's exciting, the long tail distribution of architectural project typologies as a framework for his thesis, where he thinks the real opportunities lie for CAD software, how it relates to practice and employee expertise, horizontal vs vertical software applications, architechie startups and their approach to this problem, web vs desktop apps, and much more.

Links

Daniel Davis' website
CAD’s Boring Future and Why it’s Exciting
TRXL 035: ‘There‘s Not Much More to Extract’, with Daniel Davis
Daniel on Twitter
Daniel on LinkedIn
The Future of the Professions by Richard and Daniel Susskind (Amazon | Bookshop)
Saltmine
Hayworth's codesigner
Hypar
Testfit
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‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind‘, with Boris Rapoport, Alex Osenenko; Sponsored by ArchIT Nov 19, 2021

Special guests Boris Rapoport and Alex Osenenko of ArchIT join the podcast to talk about the security and privacy aspects of IoT devices when deploying them inside our practices and on the client-side, cybercrimes and other threats targeting the weakest link (people), the enormous rise in attacks including phishing and ransomware, particularly over the last 2 years due to the remote work situation, and what everyone can and should do today as their first line of defense to address the top 3 risk areas threatening our day-to-day security.

Links

ArchIT's Free eBook
ArchIT's Design Under Influence Blog
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062: ‘Complexity and Opportunity‘ Nov 16, 2021

In this episode of the podcast, Evan Troxel describes his observation of the building industry at a critical tipping point, leaving us with the choice to see it as an opportunity to design our profession toward a better future together, or to do nothing and allow it to further slip toward obsolescence.

Links

TRXL Episode Database
“The Man in the Arena” by Theodore Roosevelt
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061: ‘Scratch Your Own Itch‘, with Adam Chernick Nov 09, 2021

Special guest Adam Chernick of SHoP Architects joins the podcast to talk about his role where he is leading augmented reality development, how he steered his career in architecture toward software development, why he's excited about AR as it relates to our profession, what software tools he and his team are using for development, what hardware he's using now to implement AR, what hardware he's watching, and more.

Links

Adam's LinkedIn
Adam's website
Adam's GitHub
SHoP Architects website
SHoP's LinkedIn
How SHoP Architects brings real time BIM to AEC with Unity Reflect (YouTube)
How Virtual Reality is Augmenting Realty (New York Times)
Wham-O Magic Window
Magic Leap
Microsoft Hololens
Unity
Evan's Airtable referral link - use it!
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060: ‘Verify in Field‘, with Kelly Cone Oct 26, 2021

Special guest Kelly Cone of ClearEdge3d joins the podcast to talk about his path from architecture school to ClearEdge3d, reality capture and laser scanning, upcoming advancements in reality capture, and more.

Links

Kelly on LinkedIn
Kelly on Twitter
ClearEdge3d on Twitter
ClearEdge3d website
Edgewise
Verity
Rhythm
Faro scanners
Leica scanners
RTC360
BLK360
BLK2GO
BLK2FLY
Scan to BIM University
Reality Capture Network (RCN)
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059: ‘Fundamentally Changing the Equation‘, with Brian Ringley Oct 19, 2021

Special guest Brian Ringley of Boston Dynamics joins the podcast to talk about the notion of continually as-built models as digital twins via the pairing of artificial intelligence and mobile agile robotics, the concept of digital twins as a building's operating system changing the design and delivery procurement relationship with owners, how companies in AEC can use robotics today to transform their business and enhance revenue generation, and more.

Links

Brian Ringley on Twitter
Brian Ringley on LinkedIn
Brian Ringley's LinkTree
Boston Dynamics Spot
New in Spot Release 3.0 video
TRXL 028: ‘A (Robotic) Holiday Spectacular’, with Brian Ringley
Beyond the Master Builder: How Robots Can Really Transform the Role of the Architect (Architect Magazine)
Viewpoint: Today's Opportunities For Tomorrow's Digital Twins in Construction (ENR)
Wired: How Disney Designed a Robotic Spider-Man (YouTube)
New TRXL podcast landing page
New TRXL Episode Database (TED)
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058: ‘Another Level of Abstraction’, with Mayur Mistry Oct 05, 2021

Special guest Mayur Mistry joins the podcast to talk about our beloved profession of architecture through the eyes of a new graduate. What do architectural technologists think of the industry they are inheriting? What are they excited about? What can we do now to help make them more successful? Listen in to hear his fresh perspective as a newly minted architectural professional.

Links

Mayur on LinkedIn
Mayur on Twitter
Mayur's Engineering ArchiTECHure YouTube channel
OpenAI (Website | Wikipedia)
Digital FUTURES
Speckle Community
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My YouTube channel

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057: ‘Semiconscious Skills’, with Brian Potter Sep 28, 2021

Special guest Brian Potter of Construction Physics joins the podcast to talk about his newsletter. We discuss why he's writing it, who it's for, and what parallels exist between his observations on the complex nature of the construction industry and the architectural profession.

Links

Brian on LinkedIn
Brian's recent blog posts on his Construction Physics Substack:
Building Complexity and the Construction Community of Practice
Why It's Hard to Innovate in Construction
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‘Reflection in Action’, with Belinda Ercan & Anthony Cortez; Sponsored by Twinmotion Sep 21, 2021

Special guests Belinda Ercan of Epic Games and Anthony Cortez of Arup join the podcast to talk about the democratization of architectural visualization tools, the benefits of real time rendering technology for everyone, using real time rendering as a tool for unleashing creativity and making design decisions, and how Twinmotion reduces the friction found in traditional rendering pipelines.

Links

Download your free trial of Twinmotion here
Belinda Ercan on LinkedIn
Anthony Cortez on LinkedIn
Arup website
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056: ‘More Faster is Less Good’, with Tyler Goss Sep 14, 2021

Special guest Tyler Goss joins the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on what it means to be a manager, optimizing the industry, the baggage parties bring to the table, being a solutions provider, and more!

Links

Tyler on LinkedIn
Tyler on Twitter
Construction Physics Substack by Brian Potter
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055: ‘Crossing the Streams’, with Je‘Nen Chastain and Evelyn Lee Sep 09, 2021

Special guests Je'Nen Chastain and Evelyn Lee of the Practice Disrupted podcast join me on this special ‘crossover‘ episode to talk about why we're all doing this podcasting thing and why we're memorializing these conversations on the internet.

Links

Practice Disrupted podcast
Je‘Nen on LinkedIn
Je‘Nen on Twitter
Apostophe Consulting website
Evelyn on LinkedIn
Evelyn on Twitter
Practice of Architecture website
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054: ‘Magical Moments’, with Tom Kluyskens Aug 31, 2021

Special guest Tom Kluyskens of Trimble joins the podcast to talk about his circuitous career path including a decade in the visual effect industry, computational design as designing logic versus form, the different approaches in the process of creating a film versus buildings, making digital tools that users reveal the unknown potential of, and more.

Links

Tom on LinkedIn
Gregg Fleishman
Book recommendation: Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling
Hypergraph overview
Weta Digital (Wikipedia)
MASSIVE (software) (Wikipedia)
SketchUp Live Components & Materia:
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search/?searchTab=model&isLiveComponent=true
https://help.sketchup.com/en/sketchup-live-components
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN3J8H4ZVtts8NaNIikqYNw
https://twitter.com/Trimble_Materia
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053: ‘A Growth Mindset’, with Ellen Bensky Aug 17, 2021

Special guest Ellen Bensky of Turner Fleischer Architects joins the podcast to talk about how she and her team built a teaching organization and a learning culture, their experience in how that effectively works within the construct of a firm, the benefits that result when a firm doesn't require its staff to have utilization targets, the difference between knowledge and data, who should teach in an organization, the importance of feedback loops, and more.

Links

Ellen Bensky on LinkedIn
Turner Fleischer Architects website
Turner Fleischer on LinkedIn
Turner Fleischer on Twitter
Ellen's KA Connect 2018 Presentation: The Hidden Benefits of Developing a Teaching Organization
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052: ‘Means to an End’, with Robert Yori Aug 03, 2021

Special guest Robert Yori of EnTech joins the podcast to talk about the annual Design Technology Summit (DTS) events, overarching themes and experience sharing, using empathic techniques when working through ways to engage leadership in their adoption and continued digital transformations, how to share and cross-pollinate those ideas to elevate the profession together, technology as a means to an end, working as a group to advance ideas across institutional silos, and more.

Links

Robert Yori on LinkedIn
Robert Yori on Twitter
Design Technology Summit Events (DTS) Paper Drawings Need to Die! (Digital Built Week Seattle 2019) (Evan's YouTube) Getting caught in a downpour in St Louis! (Design Technology Summit, St. Louis 2018) (Evan's YouTube)
BILT Events
DBEI website
AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community (TAP)
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On August 12, Monograph is hosting Section Cut, a virtual conference dedicated to firm owners and operation leaders. Hear from leaders at Lake|Flato, SOM, Workshop/APD, Colloqate, and more! Reserve a seat today by visiting https://sectioncut.com/?ref=trxl.

051: ‘A Closet Full of Hats’, with Randall Stevens Jul 27, 2021

Special guest Randall Stevens of AVAIL joins the podcast to talk about some of the more difficult problems in AEC, the struggle of different team members having different incentives, assets and liabilities, vulnerability, and so much more.

Links

Randall on LinkedIn
AVAIL on LinkedIn
AVAIL website
AVAIL on Twitter
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Amazon | Bookshop)
Building Content Summit (Facebook Group)
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On August 12, Monograph is hosting Section Cut, a virtual conference dedicated to firm owners and operation leaders. Hear from leaders at Lake|Flato, SOM, Workshop/APD, Colloqate, and more! Reserve a seat today by visiting https://sectioncut.com/?ref=trxl.

050: ‘Diving Deep’, with Joann Lui and George Valdes Jul 20, 2021

Special guests Joann Lui and George Valdes of Monograph join the podcast to talk about their passion for PracticeOps (AKA architectural practice operations), working on the business rather than in the business, the importance of building communities, the upcoming Section Cut conference, and more.

Links

Joann Lui on LinkedIn
George Valdes on LinkedIn
George on Twitter
Monograph website
Monograph webinar series (fireside chats)
Monograph job board
Section Cut 2021 conference website (RSVP for it now for the August 12 online conference)
Women Architects Collective (Facebook group)
Architechie group (link to the Slack channel at the bottom of the page)
TRXL 011: ‘I Did This on a Lark’, with George Valdes
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On August 12, Monograph is hosting Section Cut, a virtual conference dedicated to firm owners and operation leaders. Hear from leaders at Lake|Flato, SOM, Workshop/APD, Colloqate, and more! Reserve a seat today by visiting https://sectioncut.com/?ref=trxl.

049: ‘Everything Floats’, with Federico Negro Jul 13, 2021

Special guest Federico Negro of Canoa Supply joins the podcast to talk about how he traversed AEC to get where he is now. We also discuss delivering space as a product, architecture's failure to scale, burnout, health, our deep connections to making, and much more.

Links

Federico Negro on LinkedIn
Federico on Twitter
Canoa Supply website
the manifesto
Parsons School of Design
SHoP Architects
Case
WeWork
TRXL 037: ‘The Space Doesn't Care’, with Lance Amato (Lance also works at Canoa)
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048: ‘How it Started; How it’s Going’, with Ian Keough and Clifton Harness Jul 06, 2021

Special guests Ian Keough of Hypar and Clifton Harness of TestFit join me to talk about the evolution they've experienced in their different kinds of startups (platform versus product, respectively), and take us behind the scenes to share what it's like running companies, building teams, and building software as CEO's.

Other potential unused episode titles from our conversation: ‘A Whole Flotilla’ and ‘Feral Desire’ (thanks to Clifton), which are now going on the list of good names for bands.

Links

Ian Keough
Ian on twitter
Ian's YouTube talk to the AIA Strategic Council
TRXL podcast episode 003: ‘A Local Maxima’, with Ian Keough
Hypar
Hypar website
Hypar's YouTube channel
Clifton Harness
Clifton on twitter
Clifton's YouTube talk to the AIA Strategic Council
TRXL podcast episode 005: ’BIM is a T-Rex‘, with Clifton Harness
TestFit
TestFit website
eBook: 18 Ways to Increase Density in Multifamily Buildings
TestFit's YouTube channel
Bad Monkeys
Case, Inc.
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047: ‘A Much Bigger Asterisk’, with Aaron Maller Jun 29, 2021

Special guest Aaron Maller of Parallax Team joins the podcast to talk about why he got into the Revit consulting business, building 'a' team versus building 'the' team, what constitutes "a total hot mess", and more.

Links

Parallax Team website
Parallax Product Page
FOREground for Revit - new, real site tools for Revit (currently in development)
Parallax Team on Twitter
Aaron on LinkedIn
Aaron on Twitter
Tools mentioned:
Notion
Otter
Descript
Grain
TRXL episode 028: ‘A (Robotic) Holiday Spectacular’, with Brian Ringley
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046: ‘The Moment’, with Ian Janicki May 25, 2021

Special guest Ian Janicki of Outfit joins the podcast to talk about ‘The Moment‘.

The Moment serves as a backdrop to kick off a conversation about what we're seeing happening in AEC Tech. The moniker is in reference to the unforeseen convergence of several tech companies in the mid 1990's that brought so-called extreme sports into the mainstream. We then use this as a framework to examine which startups currently working (possibly/hopefully in concert with one another) toward The Moment for AEC.

Steve Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

In this episode we explore the topics of platforms and apps, puzzles and puzzle pieces, infrastructure and API's, what's changing and what's not changing in the next 10 years, the choice to work on hard projects versus latching on to shiny objects, moving bits versus marshaling atoms, and more.

Links

Outfit
Ian on Twitter
Outfit on Twitter
Outfit on Instagram
Ian on LinkedIn
Evan's AEC // Tech twitter list
Architechie website and Slack channel
Hypar – TRXL 003: ‘A Local Maxima’, with Ian Keough
TestFit – TRXL 005: ’BIM is a T-Rex‘, with Clifton Harness
Upcodes – TRXL 021: ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’, with Scott Reynolds
Reonomy
Xamarin
Katerra
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045: ‘Squirrel Mentality’, with Dr. Upali Nanda May 18, 2021

Special guest Dr. Upali Nanda of HKS Architects joins the podcast to talk about the achilles heel of architecture, design diagnostics, occupancy outcomes, feedback loops, and what all of these have to do with her work at the intersection of research, data, neuroscience, and space.

Links

Upali on Twitter
Upali Nanda uses neuroscience to understand buildings as living organisms (Archpaper)
HKS Architects
HKS Research
HKS LINE (Laboratory for INtensive Exploration)
Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Michigan
Center for Advanced Design Research and Evaluation
Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture
Venn diagram (Wikipedia)
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044: ‘The Sky's the Limit’, with Brad Feinknopf & Lawrence Anderson May 11, 2021

Special guests Brad Feinknopf and Lawrence Anderson join the podcast to talk about how they collaborate with architects to deliver visual storytelling in their evolving field of expertise — architectural photography.

Links

Brad Feinknopf's website
Brad on Instagram
Brad on Twitter
Lawrence Anderson's website
Lawrence on Instagram
Lawrence on Twitter
Richard Avadon (Wikipedia)
Fernando Guerra on Instagram
Columbus College of Art & Design
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043: ‘This Could Get Pretty Big’, with Dion Moult Apr 27, 2021

Special guest Dion Moult joins the podcast to talk about Open Source software, BlenderBIM, OpenBIM, the Open Source Architecture (OSArch) community, the problem of file formats and software companies that create lock-in, making informed choices about project development workflows relating to technology and software, thinking bigger about the ecosystems of our built environments, and much more.

Links

Dion's blog
The OSArch Community website
learn.osarch.org video tutorials
OSArch on Twitter
BlenderBIM website
BlenderBIM on Twitter
Blender website & community
FreeCAD website
Open-source software defined (Wikipedia)
IfcOpenShell website
BuildingSMART website
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) wiki
Ladybug Tools website (Free environmental analysis tools)
OPEN Foam website (Open source CFD analysis tools)
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042: ‘When You Zoom Out’, with Randy Deutsch Apr 20, 2021

Special guest Randy Deutsch once again joins the podcast to talk about connecting the dots, the importance of learning to get outside of the echo chamber and talk each other's language, and his latest book about mid-career professionals adapting to new trajectories while staying within the profession of architecture.

Links

Randy's website
Randy's twitter
Adapt As An Architect: A Mid-Career Companion by Randy Deutsch (Amazon | Bookshop)
TRXL 004: ’What Else You Got‘, with Randy Deutsch
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041: ‘Stay Curious’, with Dror Poleg Apr 13, 2021

Special guest Dror Poleg joins the podcast to talk about technology and real estate including WeWork's holistic product approach, feedback loops, social layers on top of physical environments, the Power law curve, the decoupling of location and productivity, and much more.

Links

Dror's website
Dror's newsletter (highly recommended)
Dror's Twitter
Dror's online courses: Real Innovation Academy
The Office Prisoner's Dilemma by Dror Poleg
We're Never Going Back by Packy McCormick
Power law curve (Wikipedia)
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040: ‘Constant Hit of Dopamine’, with Petr Mitev Apr 06, 2021

Special guest Petr Mitev of Enscape joins the podcast to talk about his recent transition away from an architectural firm and what's going on in the democratization of visualization creation in our profession. We even take a moment to reminisce about old-school rendering applications and computer labs in school — does anyone remember administrating the render farm?

Links

Petr's Twitter
Petr's LinkedIn
Petr's GitHub
Petr's Website
Enscape Website
New Mission/Vision
3.0 Announcement
Enscape's YouTube Channel
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039: ‘It's All Edge Cases’, with Rob Asher Mar 23, 2021

Special guest Rob Asher of Giraffe Technology joins the podcast to talk about his circuitous path to software development via math, philosophy, and architecture, the professional goals of architects serving societies for human flourishing, building tools that encourage interactivity, the role of technology, and so much more.

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Rob on LinkedIn
Giraffe Technology website
GenerativeComponents (Wikipedia)
Cox Architects
Grasshopper
David Rutten
Rhinocerous
Hypar
Episode 003: Ian Keough on TRXL
Episode 014: Andrew Heumann on TRXL
Episode 032: Anthony Hauck on TRXL
Christopher Alexander's Books:
A Pattern Language (Amazon | Bookshop)
The Timeless Way of Building (Amazon | Bookshop)
A New Theory of Urban Design (Amazon | Bookshop)
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038: ‘It's Not a New Thing’, with Timon Hazell Mar 16, 2021

Special guest Timon Hazell of Walter P Moore joins the podcast to talk about how YourDesk University began, hard work and passion projects, PyRevit, and so much more.

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Timon on Twitter
Timon on LinkedIn
YourDesk University
YourDesk University on YouTube
YourDeskUniversity Slack Channel
Walter P Moore
Lean manufacturing (Wikipedia)
SCRUM (Wikipedia)
Timon's book recommendations:
Boundaries by Henry Cloud (Bookshop | Amazon)
Turn The Ship Around! by L. David Marquet (Bookshop | Amazon)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey (Bookshop | Amazon)
Huion Sketch Pad (Amazon)
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037: ‘The Space Doesn‘t Care’, with Lance Amato Mar 09, 2021

Special guest Lance Amato of Canoa Supply joins the podcast to talk about the vast (dis)array of energy code adoption in the US, the need to hit the reset button, the need for architects to generate standards for the building industry, and more.

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The Shiftless Approach to National Building Energy Regulations by Lance Amato (Medium)
Canoa Supply website
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036: ‘The Answers Are There’, with Cormac Phalen and Bob Habian Mar 02, 2021

The tables have been turned in this special episode of TRXL. Architects Cormac Phalen and Bob Habian join Evan to discuss some fundamental problems in the AEC industry and a solution that has led to a new career direction.

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035: ‘There‘s Not Much More to Extract’, with Daniel Davis Feb 23, 2021

Special guest Dr. Daniel Davis, Senior Researcher at Hassell, joins the podcast to talk about the control Autodesk has over the industry and the lack of incentive to address architects' concerns, systemization and blurred service lines as examples of the future of the profession, vertically vs. horizontally integrated companies, and more.

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Daniel on Twitter
Daniel's website
Hassell
Daniel's articles:
Modular architecture is Back. Is it better?
Architects vs Autodesk
What ‘The Future of The Professions’ Reveals About the Future of Architecture
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034: ‘Outcomes and Outputs’, with John Turner Feb 16, 2021

Special guest John Turner of Gafcon joins the podcast to talk about digital twins and their value proposition in the total building lifecycle, who is—and who isn't—involved (that probably should be) in digital twins, risk aversion & business models, the internet of things & the internet of actions, the 'digital thread', and more.

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Digital Twin Consortium
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Lean manufacturing (Wikipedia)
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033: ‘What Other Dials Do You Have to Turn’, with Phil Bernstein Feb 02, 2021

Special guest Phillip Bernstein joins the podcast to talk about teaching his pro practice course that encourages architecture students to push beyond the traditional business model, value propositions of architecture, encouraging collaboration when working in isolation, and much more.

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Phil Bernstein on Twitter
Phil’s ARCH 2230b course at Yale School of Architecture entitled Technology and Practice – Exploring New Value in Design Practice
Architecture | Design | Data – Practice Competency in the Era of Computation by Phillip Bernstein
Evan’s YouTube videos mentioning Phil’s inspiration Paper Drawings Need to Die! (Digital Built Week Seattle 2019) Architectural tech, practice, and education in Charleston!
Phil’s articles that elaborate more on the topics in this episode: Phil Bernstein Shares Ten Thoughts on the Future of Practice Why the Field of Architecture Needs a New Business Model
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032: ‘Punctuated Equilibrium’, with Anthony Hauck Jan 26, 2021

Special guest Anthony Hauck of Hypar joins the podcast to talk about making the mark you want to make, pursuing something that feels more valuable, shared goals and value propositions in AEC, and more.

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Calamityware Mugs
DBEI (BiLT Conference)
Disruptive Technologies in Architecture – AIA Palm Beach Presentation – Nov 2020 (YouTube)
Architecture - Design - Data: Practice Competency in the Era of Computation by Phillip Bernstein
TRXL episode 003 with Ian Keough, CEO of Hypar
TRXL episode 028 with Brian Ringley, Construction Technology Manager at Boston Dynamics
Spacemaker
Book recommendations: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
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031: ‘Various Types of Flow’, with Kat Dovjenko Jan 19, 2021

Special guest Kat Dovjenko, a consultant to Google's Idea Workshop for the Built Environment and Spatial Syndicate joins the podcast to talk about ongoing observations and changes in the workplace, space as a product, collaboration, distraction and the high cost of switching modalities, and more.

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Kat's website
Kat on Twitter
Spatial Syndicate
Google's Idea Workshop for the Built Environment
Evan's Architechie Twitter list
MrBeast Burger, and the launch video (YouTube)
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030: ‘Focus On Outcomes, Not Objects’, with Violet Whitney Jan 12, 2021

Special guest Violet Whitney of Columbia GSAPP and Sidewalk Labs joins the podcast to talk about influencing, enabling, and measuring how people interact with space using the internet of things (IoT), the potential of dynamic systems, twitter bot poetry, generative design, and much more.

Links

Disruptive Technologies in Architecture – AIA Palm Beach presentation (YouTube)
Architechie
Columbia GSAPP Courses:
IoT – Measuring the Great Indoors
Simulation – Data Mining the City
Sidewalk Labs Delve Project
Violet on LinkedIn
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029: ‘Everyone Works for Themselves’, with Dave Fano Jan 05, 2021

Special guest Dave Fano of Teal joins the podcast to talk about what led to the founding of Teal, what it's become since launching just over a year ago, job searching, compensation, designing your career, and so much more. Dave previously taught at Columbia GSAPP, founded Case Inc. which was later sold to WeWork where he became the Chief Growth Officer before starting Teal.

Links

Teal website
Teal Job Tracker
Teal's Job Tracker on Product Hunt
Teal on Twitter
Dave on Twitter
Dave on LinkedIn
WeWork Acquires Case Inc. (Architect Magazine)
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028: ‘A (Robotic) Holiday Spectacular’, with Brian Ringley Dec 22, 2020

In this inaugural TRXL Holiday Spectacular episode, special guest Brian Ringley joins me to talk about the path he took that led to Boston Dynamics where he helps bridge the gap between designers & the trades on construction sites using Spot, the agile mobile robot.

Links

Boston Dynamics
Spot
Brian on Twitter
Brian on Instagram
Brian's Linktree
Woods Bagot
Pratt Institute
University of Cincinnati DAAP
Roomba (Wikipedia)
Westworld (Wikipedia)
Hypar
Hyundai takes control of Boston Dynamics in $1.1B deal (The Verge)
Beyond the Master Builder: How Robots Can Really Transform the Role of the Architect (Architect Magazine)
Designalyze Podcast with Zach Downey and Brian Ringley
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027: ‘Turning Validation into Actuation’, with Adam Wilbrecht Dec 15, 2020

Special guest Adam Wilbrecht of Concert Blockchain joins the podcast to talk about the impending skilled labor decrease, custody of information, the various ways in which blockchain can help architects have more agency, and so much more.

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Adam Wilbrecht on LinkedIn
ConcertVDC website
Cuningham Group website
Blockchain (Wikipedia)
Master Builder (Wikipedia)
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026: ‘File Formats Are Terrible’, with Scott Davidson Dec 08, 2020

Special guest Scott Davidson of Robert McNeel and Associates joins the podcast to talk about the happy little accidents that led to the creation, and ultimately, the naming of Rhinoceros (aka Rhino), how it changed over time to become one the most beloved tools in AEC, and where it's going with Rhino.Inside and version 7 which is officially released this week on December 9, 2020.

Links

Rhinoceros website
McNeel and Associates (Wikipedia)
Rhino.Inside website
Rhino.Inside Revit website
Rhino Compute features
Rhino Forums
Rhinoceros YouTube channel
Food4Rhino website
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025: ‘Copyrighting the Building Code’, with Scott Reynolds Dec 01, 2020

Special guest Scott Reynolds once again joins the podcast to talk about a second lawsuit brought against UpCodes by the ICC which came quickly after some favorable news from the judge on the first one.

Links

UpCodes website
UpCodes on Twitter
TRXL 021: ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’, with Scott Reynolds
UpCodes first lawsuit with the ICC
A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law (TechCrunch article)
International Code Council (ICC)
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
MADCAD
TextStreet
YCombinator
Guy Raz’s podcast with Jimmy Wales about how he built Wikipedia (NPR)
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy (Bookshop)
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024: ‘A Healthy Dose of Skepticism’, with Nathan Miller Nov 24, 2020

Special guest Nathan Miller of Proving Ground joins the podcast to talk about hobbies during the pandemic, the digital transformation of AEC, some drawbacks of generative design, privacy concerns with IoT devices and connected buildings, and so much more!

Links

Proving Ground web site
Computers are Hard blog post
Conveyor
Semantic
Lunchbox
Nathan Miller on Twitter
Nathan Miller on LinkedIn
Leading architecture firms pen open letter to Autodesk over rising costs, sluggish development (Archpaper)
Ender 3d Printer (Amazon)
Book recommendations:
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly (Bookshop)
The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind (Bookshop)
YouTube links and channel recommendations:
Nate's NXT BUILD 2020 presentation
Proving Ground's YouTube channel
Colin Furze
Adam Savage's Tested
The Hacksmith
Alien Exoskeleton
Lightsaber episode
TRXL episode 018: ‘That Perfect Kind of Venn Diagram’, with Dane Stokes
Project Anklebiter forum thread on 914 World
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023: ‘One More Thing’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo Nov 17, 2020

Special guest Anthony Frausto-Robledo of Architosh once again joins the podcast to talk about what we got right and what we got wrong about what was announced at Apple's ‘One More Thing’ event last week, implications of these new releases for architects and practice, industry 4.0, and convergence.

Links

Upcoming Live stream happy hour with the Archispeak and Life of an Architect podcast on Nov 19th, 4:15pm PST (YouTube)
Architosh web site
Anthony's free Xpresso email newsletter
OK Computer Lecture Series: Disruption (Evan's Disruption talk on YouTube)
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022: ‘Turbo Boost Mood’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo Nov 10, 2020

Special guest Anthony Frausto-Robledo of Architosh re-joins the podcast to talk about hardware and software predictions for Apple’s “One More Thing” event on November 10, 2020.

Links

TRXL Ep 012 – ‘Force Multipliers’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo
Apple Event – One More Thing (The Verge)
Every 'One more thing' Apple has ever announced (Macworld UK)
MacRumors – Apple Working on Redesigned Mac Pro With Smaller Form Factor and Apple Silicon Chip
Six Colors – Fun With Charts: Entirely speculative charts about Apple Silicon
Architosh web site
AEC Inflection Point — The Story of the Revit Revolt
Shapr3d
Parasolid
OK Computer Lecture Series: Disruption (Evan's Disruption talk on YouTube)
Clayton Christensen's theory on innovative disruption (Wikipedia)
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021: ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’, with Scott Reynolds Oct 27, 2020

Special guest Scott Reynolds joins the podcast to talk about how he transitioned from architecture to tech, how technology is changing building codes, and how he wants UpCodes to affect the architectural profession.

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UpCodes website
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020: ‘The Hard Part’, with Shane Scranton Oct 20, 2020

Special guest Shane Scranton joins the podcast to talk about virtual reality, the infinite possibilities of the digital realm, VR hardware announcements, and much more.

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019: ‘A Super Narrow Window Towards Obsolescence’, with Alvin Huang Oct 13, 2020

Special guest Alvin Huang joins the podcast to talk about architectural education in the midst of a pandemic, turning constraints into opportunities, becoming obsolete, authored versus documented reality, and much more.

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018: ‘That Perfect Kind of Venn Diagram’, with Dane Stokes Oct 06, 2020

Special guest Dane Stokes joins the podcast to talk about his journey into architecture, being a 'computer person', design computation and automation, the importance of making things and working with your hands, custom fabrication, one-button buildings, having kids and failure, and much more.

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017: ‘Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable’, with Rosa Sheng Sep 29, 2020

Special guest Rosa Sheng joins the podcast to talk about the future of our profession from a justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) perspective, and so much more.

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016: ‘Tenuous Territory’, with Reg Prentice Sep 22, 2020

Special guest Reg Prentice joins the podcast to talk about the value of an architect, how and why we document decisions, the network effect, how designers are decision factories, and much more.

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015: ‘Grossly Inefficient’, with Cherise Lakeside Sep 15, 2020

Special guest Cherise Lakeside joins the podcast to talk about career passion, the importance of celebration, the inefficiencies within and difficulty of change management in AEC, specifications, CSI, mentorship, leadership, and much more.

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014: 'A Degree of Nuclear', with Andrew Heumann Sep 08, 2020

Special guest Andrew Heumann joins the podcast to talk about why people love or hate using certain tools, design, company culture, his generative artwork, and more.

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013: 'Designs are Hypothesis', with Donna Sink Sep 01, 2020

Special guest Donna Sink joins the podcast to talk about a possible business model for architects based on design performance and outcomes.

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012: 'Force Multipliers', with Anthony Frausto-Robledo Aug 25, 2020

Special guest Anthony Frausto-Robledo joins the podcast to talk about Apple, the Macintosh, and iOS devices in the profession, the open letter to Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost, and much more.

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011: 'I Did This on a Lark', with George Valdes Aug 18, 2020

Special guest George Valdes joins the podcast to talk about his interest and occupation of the technological periphery surrounding the architectural profession, and much more.

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010: 'Trajectories', with Lucas Reames Aug 11, 2020

Special guest Lucas Reames joins the podcast to talk about fostering innovation in AEC, the ZeroSixty accelerator, the architectural response to COVID-19 and the opportunities it has created, data-driven design, and much more.

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009: 'Creating Opportunities for Collisions', with Eric Reinholdt Aug 04, 2020

Special guest Eric Reinholdt joins the podcast to talk about why he started his YouTube channel, the keys to being productive, why getting away from architecture helps his process, the importance of making things, turning sources into resources, and much more.

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008: 'This Reminds Me of That', with Geoff Manaugh Jul 28, 2020

Special guest Geoff Manaugh joins the podcast to talk about writing, music, travel, geology, connecting the dots, where ideas come from, architecture, his next book on the topic of quarantine, and much more.

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007: 'Reinventing the Wheel', with Konrad Sobon Jul 21, 2020

Special guest Konrad Sobon joins the podcast to talk about working in architecture, open source software development, mentorship, getting better at things versus reinventing the wheel, truck driving, Polish hiphop, basketball, assembling furniture, and so much more.

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006: 'Doomed to Fail', with Bill Allen Jul 14, 2020

Special guest Bill Allen joins the podcast to talk about whether or not generative design is 'doomed to fail', maximizing versus optimizing, work/life balance, personal hacks, reading suggestions, and more.

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005: 'BIM is a T-Rex', with Clifton Harness Jul 07, 2020

Special guest Clifton Harness joins the podcast to talk about generative design, tool building, running a startup, the AEC community on LinkedIn versus Twitter, how architects could affect sustainable change through getting involved in policy decisions, and more.

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004: 'What Else You Got', with Randy Deutsch Jun 30, 2020

Special guest Randy Deutsch joins the podcast to talk about teaching in architecture, how he got his start writing books, why writing is important, and shares some personal productivity hacks.

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003: 'A Local Maxima', with Ian Keough Jun 23, 2020

Special guest Ian Keough joins the podcast to talk about tool building, "slipping" off the path of becoming a "real" architect, the idea of starting from a blank page, and more.

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002: 'Getting Out of the Echo Chamber', with Mark LePage Jun 19, 2020

In this inaugural episode, Evan talks with Mark LePage of EntreArchitect to discuss what TRXL is all about: a podcast about how technology is changing the architectural profession.

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