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095: ‘Super Janky’, with John Pierson Sep 13, 2022

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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.

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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)
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094: ‘Reinventing the Wheel’, with Johan Hanegraaf Sep 06, 2022

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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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Altaf on LinkedIn
Altaf on Twitter
Snaptrude website
Snaptrude on LinkedIn
Snaptrude on Twitter
Snaptrude on YouTube
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088: ‘It All Dies on the Same Hill’, with Jason Gardner Jul 26, 2022

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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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Jason on LinkedIn
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Populous on LinkedIn
Populous on Twitter
Populous website
SoFi Stadium (ArchDaily)
Field of Dreams game
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087: ‘The Drumbeat of Change’, with Robert DeMillo and Jilbert El-Zmetr Jul 19, 2022

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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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Robert on LinkedIn
Jilbert on LinkedIn
SOM website
SOM on LinkedIn
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086: ‘Here to Do the Hard Thing’, with Robert Yuen Jun 07, 2022

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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.

Links

Robert on LinkedIn
Robert on Twitter
Monograph website
Monograph’s podcast
Monograph’s webinars
Monograph’s resource & reference library
Monograph on LinkedIn
Monograph on Twitter
Archispeak 267: Experiences with Starlink on the road
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