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226: 'Think Slower to Move Faster', with Charles Portelli

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0700

Charles Portelli joins the podcast to talk about what you learn when you leave architecture to build software, and what you bring back when you return. We explore the gap between how buildings are designed and how they're actually fabricated, why the most valuable work inside a large firm is often the least glamorous, and what it would take to build an AI-powered project assistant that actually knows everything about a job.

This episode is especially relevant for design technology leaders, firm principals, and anyone working on the internal tooling side of architecture. If you've felt the tension between chasing the next new capability and keeping everyone from drowning in an ever-growing tool stack, Charlie names that problem clearly and talks about what a more patient, intentional path forward looks like.

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225: 'A Nuclear Bomb Moment', with Antonio González Viegas

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0700

Antonio González Viegas joins the podcast to talk about the open source infrastructure layer he's building for BIM software and why the barriers that have protected legacy vendors for decades are collapsing faster than most people realize. We explore why every BIM company has been forced to reinvent the same foundational technology from scratch, how That Open Company is giving those pieces away under an MIT license, and what happens when AI compresses years of development into weeks. Antonio coined the phrase "nuclear bomb moment" to describe where BIM software development stands right now, and the conversation pushes hard on whether that framing holds up.

This episode is especially relevant for firm leaders, BIM managers, and design technologists watching the AEC software market shift beneath them. If you're weighing vendor lock-in against emerging alternatives, or wondering whether small teams with AI can actually compete with established platforms, this conversation will sharpen your thinking.

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224: 'Everything Is Going to Change', with Martyn Day

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0700

Martyn Day joins the podcast to talk about the forces quietly dismantling how architecture and engineering work gets done, and how it gets charged for. We explore how AI-driven solvers are compressing months of project coordination into hours, why BIM 1.0 is becoming a drawing conduit as open SDKs erode software moats, and what layered cloud and AI token costs mean for firms reconsidering where their project data lives.

This episode is especially relevant for firm leaders and technology directors who are watching these tools arrive without a clear view of what they mean for staffing, billing, and competitive position. Martyn moves past tool-by-tool analysis to the structural question underneath: if the business model depends on billable hours, what happens when the hours disappear?

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223: 'They Better Find Something Else to Do', with Pablo Zamorano Mosniam

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0700

Pablo Zamorano Mosniam joins the podcast to talk about what it looks like to build a technology practice around design values rather than the other way around. We explore the “door scale,” the intimate layer of texture and touchable detail that most firms skip and Heatherwick obsesses over, why tools leave recognizable fingerprints on the buildings they produce, and how the studio's most-used internal AI tool turned out to be the one that required the least training to adopt.

This episode is especially relevant for computational designers, design technologists, and firm leaders watching the industry accelerate toward faster, cheaper, and blander — and wondering whether the right response is better tools, clearer values, or both. Pablo doesn't soften his view: the people waiting on the sidelines won't find a comfortable place to land.

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222: 'You're Automating the Wrong Thing', with Mirco Bianchini

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0700

Mirco Bianchini joins the podcast to talk about where AI automation is actually headed in AEC and why the industry is likely focused on the wrong problems. We explore the gap between Grasshopper prototyping and real product deployment, why LLMs are about to democratize computation far beyond the specialist niche, and how MCPs could finally connect a construction industry that has always been fragmented by tool silos.

This episode is especially relevant for BIM managers, computational designers, and design technologists who are experimenting with AI tools but unsure how to move from individual automation to something the whole firm can use. Mirco argues the real opportunity isn't in generating models but actually in the unglamorous operational work: capturing knowledge across projects, reducing email overhead, and building the organizational second brain that firms have always needed.

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221: ‘Architecture’s Busyness Trap’, with Joachim Viktil

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0700

Joachim Viktil joins the podcast to talk about the growing gap between how architects are trained to think and how architectural firms are structured to operate. We explore the hidden cost of staying busy, the limits of billable-hour business models, and why architects, despite being trained as systems thinkers, are often confined to producing deliverables instead of improving the systems behind the work.

This episode is especially relevant for firm leaders and tech-curious architects who feel the tension between utilization and leverage, and are questioning whether the current structure of practice is setting their best people up to thrive.

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220: ‘Lightweight Architectural Structures’, with Joshua Schultz

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0700

Joshua Schultz joins the podcast to talk about lightweight structures, including cable nets and glass design, as well as insights from his upcoming book, “Structural Design of Lightweight Structures,” co-authored with Christian Stutzki, highlighting the future of architectural design.

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219: ‘Keeping Architects in the Driver's Seat’, with George Guida

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0700

George Guida joins the podcast to talk about how AI is reshaping architectural practice. As founder of xFigura, George shares insights on building tools that keep architects in control while leveraging AI for ideation and collaboration. We explore the challenges of AI adoption, the future of design interfaces, and how the profession can thoughtfully integrate these technologies without losing the essential judgment and creativity that defines architecture.

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218: ‘Where’s My Friggin Hockey Stick’, with Zach Kron

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0700

Zach Kron joins the podcast to talk about what it really means to apply architectural thinking to products for AEC from inside a technology company. We explore designing systems, learning by shipping imperfect work, the real tradeoffs that come with pursuing leverage beyond traditional practice, and more.

This is an honest conversation for architects considering a move into tech, or looking to evolve their careers without leaving the discipline behind. It’s about agency, constraints, and redefining what impact and success can look like in architecture today.

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217: Campfire Series - ‘The Computational Design Story’, with Neil Katz

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:00:00 -0700

In this special Campfire Series episode, Neil Katz joins the podcast to tell us about the evolution of architectural technology from first principles. Long before CAD, BIM, parametrics, or AI became industry buzzwords, Neil was there. From technics and morphology, to early programming in BASIC and geometry-driven thinking, to custom software at SOM, to landmark projects that pushed behavior-based design into real buildings, his career offers a rare, continuous view of how design computation entered architectural practice.

If you’re interested in where computational design really came from and what still matters as the industry looks ahead, this episode provides essential context.

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216: ‘The Future of AEC Belongs to Those Who Evolve’, with Randy Deutsch

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:00:00 -0700

Randy Deutsch joins the podcast to talk about what real adaptation looks like inside architectural practice. Not trend-chasing. Not tool collecting. But a fundamental shift in how architects think, learn, and operate in an AI-accelerated world.

Randy draws on decades of experience as an educator, practitioner, and author to explore why resilience, convergence, and continuous learning are now core competencies, not optional extras. The conversation spans design technology, professional identity, authorship, and the uncomfortable truth that the firms who survive the next decade will be the ones who change before they’re forced to.

This is a clear-eyed look at where architecture is headed and what it takes to stay relevant when the ground keeps moving.

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215: ‘Proactive By Design’, with Wes Reynolds and Hugh Soward

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Wes Reynolds and Hugh Soward join the podcast to talk about how OPN Architects is intentionally shaping its future through digital practice, experimentation, and culture-building. They discuss the evolution of OPN’s digital practice group, how they evaluate and adopt emerging technology, and why their long-running annual retreat has become essential infrastructure for aligning design, tech, and people across the firm.

For anyone navigating innovation, change management, or digital strategy inside an AEC organization, OPN’s approach offers a clear example of what proactive firm development really looks like.

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214: ‘Partnering with AI to Solve Knowledge Problems’, with Todd Henderson and Christopher Parsons

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:00:00 -0700

In this special partner episode, Todd Henderson and Christopher Parsons join the podcast to talk about what it really takes to build a learning culture inside an architecture firm—one that actually sticks, scales, and improves project delivery over time in this final installment of the KM 3.0 series.

Drawing from Todd’s background in Lean, Scrum, and healthcare design—as well as Chris’s leadership in knowledge management, intranets, and now AI-enabled search—the conversation goes straight to the operational reality: how people learn, how they share what they know, how they improve, and why many firms fall short. The episode explores the evolving role of AI-augmented KM, the importance of making institutional knowledge searchable, the value of intranets that don’t die on the vine, and how learning management systems give firms a real advantage in consistency and quality.

Todd also breaks down practical strategies for coaching teams, supporting project managers, and turning continuous improvement into a repeatable habit rather than a once-a-year aspiration.

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About the KM 3.0 Series

This episode concludes a seven-part, in-depth series created in partnership with Knowledge Architecture, designed to give the AEC industry a comprehensive, modern framework for knowledge management. Across these seven conversations, leaders from operations, digital practice, learning & development, and technology share what’s actually working inside their firms—and how they’re using KM, AI, intranets, and training systems to move from isolated expertise to firm-wide capability.

The result is a robust, openly accessible resource for anyone in AEC looking to build or modernize a KM program. Whether you’re starting from scratch or leveling up an existing initiative, the KM 3.0 series delivers a rare combination of strategic clarity, practical examples, and hard-won lessons from people doing the work every day.

If you’re responsible for digital practice, firm operations, KM, or elevating your team’s skills, this finale ties the whole series together and points toward what’s possible. It’s an in depth look at how firms can work smarter today than they did yesterday using the right systems, culture, and leadership making that future achievable.

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213: ‘The Rise of Tech-Driven Leadership in AEC’, with Jonathan Nelson, Nirva Fereshetian, Heath May, and Shane Burger

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Jonathan Nelson, Nirva Fereshetian, Heath May, and Shane Burger join the podcast to talk about one of the biggest questions facing our industry: How do design technologists grow into firmwide leaders?

What was originally planned as a one-way presentation quickly became a true two-way conversation. Instead of a traditional panel format, we created a space where the audience guided the discussion with thoughtful and challenging questions. The energy in the room elevated the entire session and resulted in one of the most engaging and candid moments of the conference.

Joining me on stage are four leaders who all began in design technology roles and now hold significant positions inside their firms:

Jonathan Nelson, Global Head of Digital, Populous
Heath May, Partner and CEO Elect, HKS
Nirva Fereshetian, Principal and CIO, CBT Architects
Shane Burger, Chief Design Technology Officer, SOM

Together, we explore real pathways into leadership, pivotal career decisions, and how to build credibility inside complex organizations. We discuss what technology adoption conversations look like, how to develop the next generation of talent, how to approach the build versus buy dilemma, and what it takes to secure buy-in for major technology investments. We also talk openly about the cultural friction that continues to challenge firmwide transformation.

By capturing and sharing this session on TRXL, we help extend the value and reach of AECtech far beyond the room. These ideas and insights can now be part of a global conversation among AEC professionals and leaders.

If you want to understand how design technologists make the jump into senior leadership, what skills matter most, and how the future of practice is being shaped right now, this episode delivers clarity, candor, and inspiration from leaders who have lived it.

To learn more about Jonathan Nelson, Nirva Fereshetian, Heath May, and Shane Burger, see the full show notes with links at https://trxl.co/213

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212: ‘Curiosity as a KPI’, with Ashley Hastings

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Ashley Hastings joins the podcast to talk about what it really means to make curiosity a key performance indicator (KPI).

📐 A note from Evan: The phrase “curiosity as a KPI” contains its own contradiction, and hopefully the irony landed with you, dear listener. Obviously, KPIs are about measurement, control, and predictability—the very things that can kill curiosity when applied too rigidly. True curiosity thrives in open-ended exploration, not quarterly targets. The challenge isn't to meter curiosity like a production metric, but to design systems that protect space for it, reward it when it leads somewhere useful, and to not punish the curious if/when it doesn't. The goal is to make curiosity visible and valued. Not to turn wonder into a dashboard.

We discuss how curiosity can and should be operationalized as a measurable part of firm culture—not so much as something tracked, but rewarded and tied to real outcomes instead of being left to chance. Ashley shares her perspective on aligning incentives for innovation, treating training like a product, and creating feedback loops that actually capture and scale knowledge across teams.

We also talk about the post-GPT reality of context over keywords, and how design technology leadership is increasingly about change management and culture design.

If you’re a digital practice leader, BIM manager, or anyone trying to build a more innovative, adaptive practice, this conversation offers a clear path toward turning curiosity into a strategic advantage.

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211: ‘Discovering the Value of AI Through Experimentation’, with James Martin, Jess Purcell, and Chris Parsons

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:00:00 -0700

In this special partner episode, Evan Troxel is joined by James Martin and Jess Purcell of Shepley Bulfinch, along with Christopher Parsons of Knowledge Architecture, to explore how AI experimentation in architecture is revealing tangible value inside real firms.

The conversation dives deep into how disciplined experimentation—running small, intentional AI pilots with measurable goals—helps firms uncover where AI adds value and where it doesn’t. From documenting workflows and prompt libraries to developing lightweight governance and “trust-but-verify” approaches, the guests share how architecture practices can build safe environments for innovation without sacrificing rigor or control.

James and Jess share what’s happening inside Finch, Shepley Bulfinch’s internal knowledge platform, and how a culture of thoughtful documentation and shared learning has accelerated their adoption of new technologies. Chris ties these insights to KM 3.0, emphasizing knowledge in the flow of work and demonstrating how Synthesis AI Search helps architects find and reuse firm knowledge more effectively.

Together, they highlight what’s working, what’s still experimental, and how the next generation of digital practice leaders can use process, governance, and culture to make AI truly useful in AEC.

Key Topics:

How to design and run small AI experiments that deliver measurable value
Translating workflows and prompts into reusable firm knowledge
Lightweight governance for AI: policies, pilots, and playbooks
Building a trust-but-verify framework for quality assurance
Applying KM 3.0 to real practice: knowledge in the flow of work
How Shepley Bulfinch’s Finch intranet supports experimentation and sharing
The role of Synthesis AI Search in improving findability and reuse
Scaling successful AI pilots across the firm

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210: ‘Computational Design to Business Value in AEC’, with Matt Goldsberry

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Matt Goldsberry joins the podcast to talk about how data is reshaping architecture practice. From computational design roots to leading digital strategy, Matt shares how Power BI and analytics can uncover insights that drive better business and design outcomes. The conversation covers building dashboards that matter, translating BIM data into meaningful decisions, and helping architects evolve from tool users to data-informed leaders. It’s a grounded look at how to start small, build momentum, and create measurable impact through data in AEC.

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209: ‘Leading by Connection: How TAP is Redefining Integration Across the AIA’, with Cesar Escalante

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:00:00 -0700

Cesar Escalante joins the podcast to talk about his journey from practicing architect and early CAD adopter to firm technologist and now national AIA leader shaped the way he’s guiding the AIA Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community today. The conversation centers on how TAP is creating new connections across the AIA, especially with the Committee on the Environment (COTE), to align technology, sustainability, and more. Evan and Cesar discuss the outcomes from TAP’s recent sold-out symposium, what these collaborations mean for the profession, and where the group is headed next year as they focus on turning those ideas into practical tools and frameworks that firms (especially small and medium-sized) can actually use.

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208: ‘Aligning AI with Firm Values’, with Kate Grimes and Christopher Parsons

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Kate Grimes and Christopher Parsons join the podcast to talk about how firms can align AI with their values, evolve knowledge platforms responsibly, and balance technology with culture. We cover the realities of building value-based tech stacks, structuring data for reliability, measuring ROI, and protecting collaboration as AI adoption accelerates.

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207: ‘The Tech Leader’s Compass: Risk, Value, and Timing’, with Craig Barbieri

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Craig Barbieri joins the podcast to talk about his experience of hard-won lessons from the trenches. We get practical about what actually moves the needle in firms: training culture vs. one-off sessions, reality capture as “cheap insurance,” ACC-era coordination, and taming tool sprawl with strategy. We also dig into framing ROI so leaders and teams align, where AI is quietly helping today (think specs and submittals), and how to bring VDC thinking upstream.

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206: ‘Purpose-Built AI: Why It Matters in AEC’, with Rachelle Ray

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Rachelle Ray joins the podcast to talk about how AEC marketing and BD teams are really using AI today: what’s working, what’s not, and where things are headed. While proposals are a recurring thread, the broader focus is on how AI can clear space for strategy and creativity by reducing manual, repetitive work.

Rachelle brings insights from OpenAsset’s customer feedback from both survey data and real conversations to highlight common challenges, misconceptions, and the growing demand for AI tools that actually understand AEC workflows.

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205: ‘Rethinking Your A/E Practice’, with Robert Otani and Alexandra Pollock

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Robert Otani and Alexandra Pollock join the podcast to talk about how they’re rethinking Thornton Tomasetti’s engineering practice by making technology the foundation rather than an add-on. They share practical lessons on bringing computation into practice at scale, adopting product thinking inside a services business, measuring the ROI of innovation, and eliminating redundancy so teams can focus on the work that actually moves projects forward.

Rob traces CORE Studio’s origins and early bets on parametric tools like Grasshopper, then walks through some other tools they’ve developed that sparked healthy debates about accuracy, transparency, and trust and informed how newer AI tools are designed. Alex highlights how open, community-driven learning at their AECtech conferences and hackathons accelerates capability building and open-source collaboration. The trio also dig into how AI can compress the path to professional proficiency and why leaders must proactively redesign their business model to stay ahead as “conventional consulting” shrinks.

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204: ‘How to Future-Proof Your Architecture Practice’, with Dave Gilmore

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Dave Gilmore joins the podcast to talk about the urgent need for firms to proactively disrupt themselves before they’re disrupted by external forces, and why transformation is first and foremost a leadership challenge, not a technology one. Dave shares insights on the limits of the production mindset, the dangers of outsourcing strategic thinking, and the critical role that psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and entrepreneurial curiosity play in shaping sustainable, future-ready practices. This is a no-holds-barred candid conversation that calls firm leaders to think differently, act decisively, and embrace a culture of continuous change.

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203: ‘Rethinking the Architecture Business Model’, with Peter Markos

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Peter Markos joins the podcast to talk about rethinking the traditional business model of architecture by developing products instead of relying solely on client-based services. The conversation covers Peter’s journey from winning Airbnb’s OMG! Fund to creating a prefabricated, scalable cabin business, the role of investors and partnerships, the realities of risk and operations, and how timeless design, branding, and physical models play a critical role in building trust and long-term value. This episode offers a candid look at how architects can apply entrepreneurial thinking, prefabrication strategies, and product design principles to create new opportunities for practice, scale, and impact in the AEC industry.

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202: ‘Knowledge Management is Everyone‘s Job’, with Katie Robinson and Christopher Parsons

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Katie Robinson and Christopher Parsons join the podcast to talk about how LS3P’s knowledge management program evolved from a marketing necessity into a strategic advantage. We discuss the origins of their Data Manager program, how they’ve integrated firm-wide data into their intranet platform “Frank,” and why they’ve embraced AI-powered search to democratize access to knowledge. A highlight of the conversation is LS3P’s “Expert Hours” initiative—casual, recorded conversations with subject matter experts that capture invaluable, often untapped knowledge. Katie explains how these recordings are now being repurposed for marketing, onboarding, and learning, creating a flywheel of knowledge-sharing across the firm.

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201: ‘Redefining Leadership in AEC’, with Phil Putnam

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Phil Putnam joins the podcast to talk about what it really takes to lead in today’s workplace. We explore his “Give to Get” leadership framework, the staggering cost of employee turnover, and why loyalty no longer means what it used to. From generational shifts in motivation to the myth of paycheck-based performance, Phil shares practical strategies for building teams that thrive—starting with understanding what people actually want from their work. Whether you’re in firm leadership or just stepping into management, this conversation will change how you think about leadership, retention, and the future of work in AEC.

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200: ‘A Framework for Digital Transformation’, with Nathan Miller

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Nathan Miller joins the podcast to talk about why most digital transformations in AEC fail, and what to do about it. In this milestone 200th episode, we discuss the high cost of misalignment between strategy, culture, and operations, the dangers of tool chasing without purpose, and the critical role of authenticity in building sustainable, tech-enabled practices. Nate also shares his “smarts, health, and fitness” framework for assessing digital readiness, and we explore how firms can create lasting change by starting with who they really are. And of course we talk a lot about AI too.

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199: ‘Autodesk’s Vision for Architects’, with Amy Bunszel

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Amy Bunszel joins the podcast to talk about the future of Autodesk’s architectural tools. From AI-driven productivity features to contextual design with Forma, Amy shares how Autodesk is reimagining workflows, connecting data across the cloud, and helping architects spend less time “doing the dishes” and more time designing.

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198: ‘Unlocking Sustainability with AI-Powered Knowledge Management’, with Corey Squire and Christopher Parsons

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Corey Squire and Christopher Parsons join the podcast to talk about how knowledge platforms, culture shifts, and intentional frameworks can turn individual expertise into firm-wide intelligence. We explore the role of intranets, AI, onboarding, and the AIA’s Framework for Design Excellence—all aimed at embedding sustainability into everyday practice.

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197: ‘The Hidden Struggles of Leading in AEC Tech’, with Phil Read and Harlan Brumm

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Phil Read and Harlan Brumm join the podcast to talk about the often-overlooked transition from technical expert to team leader, and how the AEC Acoustics Leadership Retreat was designed to support this journey. We explore the power of shared experience, vulnerability, and creating space for meaningful personal and professional growth in an industry that rarely provides resources for this critical career shift.

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196: ‘An Undervalued Pipeline in Architecture’, with Joseph Lucido

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Joseph Lucido joins the podcast to talk about the evolving role of community colleges in architectural education, emphasizing the need for equitable pathways, integration of technology, and preparing students for diverse career opportunities in architecture while addressing industry challenges and cultural shifts.

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195: ‘The Freedom to Break the Rules’, with Jesper Wallgren

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Jesper Wallgren joins the podcast to talk about his journey from running a design studio in Sweden to building a focused software platform for multifamily residential planning called Finch. We explore the lessons learned from trying to do too much, the power of narrowing scope, how Finch integrates with tools like Rhino and Revit, and why letting architects break the rules is a feature—not a bug.

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194: ‘CEO as Knowledge Architect’, with Ellen Bensky and Christopher Parsons

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Ellen Bensky and Christopher Parsons join the podcast to talk about how Turner Fleischer built a digital twin of their practice. We get into what it means to intentionally work on the firm—not just in it—and how Turner Fleischer has operationalized innovation inside a service-based business.

Ellen shares how the firm protects time for internal research, why curiosity and empowerment are foundational to lasting change, and how knowledge management evolved into a strategic priority as the firm scaled from 60 to 250 people.

We dive into the tools, teams, and processes behind their KM system, how learning and teaching became part of the firm’s DNA, and how AI is being used not to replace people but to simplify and amplify expert knowledge.

Along the way, we unpack some of their most creative internal programs and reflect on the powerful role knowledge management plays not just inside the firm, but across the entire AEC community.

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193: ‘Making Ideas Impactful’, with Darren Brooker

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Darren Brooker joins the podcast to talk about how storytelling and visual communication, when used together, can transform the way ideas are received and acted upon. We discuss how architectural concepts are often misunderstood not because they’re bad ideas, but because they’re not communicated in a way that sticks. Darren explains why the key to influence lies in empathy, emotional engagement, and a deep understanding of how humans process information. Whether it’s helping decision-makers “see” the future, winning buy-in for a concept, or navigating the messy early stages of design, he shares lessons drawn from architecture, advertising, Pixar, and more.

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192: ‘Building an AI-First Practice’, with Patrick Chopson and Eric Cesal

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Patrick Chopson and Eric Cesal join the podcast to talk about what an architecture practice could look like if it were designed around AI from day one. We discuss the limits of traditional workflows, how education is falling behind the pace of innovation, and why small, agile teams may be better positioned to lead the industry forward. This conversation goes beyond theory into the real-world application of AI in architectural practice, and what it will take for the profession to adapt.

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191: ‘The Bastardization of Marketing in AEC’, with Kyle Morck

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Kyle Morck joins the podcast to talk about about the widespread misuse of marketing in the AEC industry. We unpack why firms rely on vanity metrics that don’t move the needle, how real marketing success comes from long-term relationship building, and why personal branding inside firms is just as critical as the firm’s brand itself. Whether you’re in a marketing role, a firm leader, or an individual looking to build visibility, this conversation offers practical insights for communicating with purpose and standing out in a noisy industry.

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190: ‘AI + KM = Smarter AEC Firms’, with Christopher Parsons

Tue, 27 May 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Christopher Parsons joins the podcast to talk about about the evolution of knowledge management (KM) in the AEC industry—from KM 1.0 (knowledge capture) to KM 2.0 (knowledge sharing), to KM 3.0 (knowledge in the flow of work). We explore how AI is catalyzing a shift toward real-time, firm-wide knowledge operations, and why success in this new era isn’t just about better tools—it’s about cultural, process, and operational change. Christopher shares the origin story of Knowledge Architecture, real examples of KM 3.0 in action, and why knowledge is now a team sport that requires clarity, community, and intentional communication to unlock its full value.

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189: ‘The Rise of the Balkan Architect’, with Milos Temerinski

Tue, 20 May 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Milos Temerinski joins the podcast to talk about his massively popular YouTube channel Balkan Architect, his journey from architecture student to full-time content creator, and how YouTube became a global classroom for Revit and other architectural software. We also talk about the power of self-directed learning, the realities of working with complex BIM tools, and why video is quickly becoming the most effective medium for knowledge transfer in AEC.

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188: ‘Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable’, with Gavin Crump

Tue, 13 May 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Gavin Crump joins the podcast to talk about his personal and professional evolution from an introverted graduate architect who stumbled through his first Revit test to becoming one of the most visible and trusted voices in AEC technology. We talk about programming as a creative outlet, the surprisingly emotional experience of automating his first workflow, and what it takes to build a public brand rooted in generosity and curiosity. Gavin also shares candid thoughts about building for delivery instead of design, the often-overlooked value of middle-tier roles in architecture firms, and why he believes architects still deserve the best tooling to do their best work.

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187: ‘It’s Just Poly’s on a Map’, with Rob Asher and James Blackwood

Tue, 06 May 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Rob Asher and James Blackwood join the podcast to talk about the real-world complexity of designing and delivering projects—and how their work at Giraffe is bridging the gaps between technology, governance, culture, commercial intent, and design.

We explore the limits of traditional tools and approach, the pitfalls of over-simplified models, and why real integration requires more than just good geometry. Rob and James share insights from their experience building Giraffe—a collaborative platform that combines design tools, mapping, data, and financial modeling—to empower better, faster, and more informed decision-making across teams and disciplines.

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186: ‘Bringing a Bazooka to a Banana Fight’, with Clifton Harness

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Clifton Harness joins the podcast to talk about the future of architectural technology, the challenges of competing with established software giants, and the importance of staying true to a focused vision. Clifton shares insights about TestFit's journey, the role of AI in architecture, and why attempting to compete directly with Revit might be missing the bigger opportunity. We also explore the human side of architecture, discussing the industry's spirit, its challenges, and the passionate people who make it what it is.

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185: ‘Radical Transparency’, with Robert Yuen

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Robert Yuen joins the podcast to talk about data integrity, the evolving business of architecture, and why “radical transparency” is something the AEC industry must adopt and incorporate. In this conversation, we examine the problems with traditional industry benchmarking, the risks of making decisions based on flawed data, and how Monograph’s new Benchmark Report is reshaping how firms understand performance. Robert shares how real-time, anonymized data is being used to empower teams, improve financial literacy, and shift firm culture toward accountability and alignment. He also discusses how transparency must become the new standard if the profession is to move forward—offering a clear and compelling vision for what sustainable, profitable practice can look like.

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184: ‘Chaos Evolves’, with Stephan Sieber and Bill Allen

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Stephan Sieber and Bill Allen join the podcast to talk about how and why Chaos and EvolveLba have combined forces, and we talk about tools from AI rendering with Veras to innovative tools like Glyph and Envision, change in the industry, complacency, disruption, and more.

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183: ‘An Appetite for Transformation’, with Natalia Bakaeva

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Natalia Bakaeva joins the podcast to talk about the topics of rethinking data, process, and innovation and discuss the challenges of redundant work, the myth of spontaneous innovation inside firms, the value of knowledge retention, and how AI and purpose-built tools like ARKI are transforming how architects access information. Natalia shares her personal journey from practicing architect to tech founder, offering insights into software design, user behavior, and what it really takes to build a more sustainable and creative practice.

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182: ‘Imagining Where We Want to Go’, with Dan Chuparkoff

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Dan Chuparkoff joins the podcast to talk about why traditional industries like architecture need to embrace reinvention. We discuss practical ways to foster innovation despite resistance, explore the dual nature of technology, and dive into topics like innovation through separation, AI's true potential, diversity as a catalyst for innovation, reframing learning, and the importance of cross-pollinating ideas and talents across industries.

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181: ‘Densities of Information’, with Matt Jezyk

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Matt Jezyk joins the podcast to talk about his journey from architecture to software development and his pioneering work with platforms like Autodesk Revit, Dynamo, and now Motif. We discuss the evolution of design collaboration tools, the impact of new technologies on the architectural design process, and how embracing real-time collaboration and cloud-based systems can revolutionize the AEC industry. Key discussion points include the challenges of modern software design, the advantages of integrating multiple platforms, and the future of AI and machine learning in AEC design.

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180: Campfire Series - ‘The Dynamo Story’, with Ian Keough

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:00:00 -0700

In this special Campfire Series episode, Ian Keough joins the podcast to tell us the incredible origin story of Dynamo. He takes us on a journey through its evolution from a simple idea to becoming an essential tool in computational design.

In this conversation, Ian shares stories about Dynamo's development, including the challenges of transitioning from an independent project to becoming part of Autodesk, the technical hurdles they faced, and how the community played a crucial role in its success. We also discuss how Dynamo has transformed careers, created a new class of computational designers, and helped countless architects and designers learn programming. It's a story of innovation, perseverance, and the unexpected impact one tool can have on an entire industry.

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179: ‘Analyzing AEC’, with Matt Wash and Konrad Sobon

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Matt Wash and Konrad Sobon join the podcast to talk about their personal journeys and evolving roles within Bimbeats, how firms handle challenges around communication, training, and accountability, the importance of understanding a company's "digital footprint" for decision-making and transformation, and their insights on using data to boost productivity and business performance.

To learn more about Matt Wash and Konrad Sobon, see the full show notes with links at https://trxl.co/179

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178: ‘Empowering Strategic Thinking’, with Matt Cooper

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Matt Cooper joins the podcast to talk about unlocking efficiency in firm operations. We explore the challenges and opportunities within the architecture industry, primarily on the operational side, highlighting the underserved nature of firm management technology. Matt's relatively fresh "outside the silo" perspective proves valuable when applied to AEC as we discuss the advantages of tracking project data accurately and making strategic business decisions.

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177: ‘The Digital Futures of Architectural Practice’, with Kristen Forward

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Kristen Forward joins the podcast to talk about her trajectory from computational design to leading emerging technology initiatives, particularly focusing on AI implementation and digital transformation in architecture.

Key highlights from our conversation include NBBJ's innovative approach to integrating emerging technologies and applied research, including their practice-embedded digital team structure; the importance of human-centered technology adoption and how NBBJ ensures team members maintain agency while embracing new tools; the role of design futures thinking and strategic foresight in shaping architectural practice; and we explore the intersection of traditional architecture and emerging technologies, offering insights into how firms can proactively shape their future while maintaining their core mission of creating impactful physical spaces.

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176: ‘The Rhinoceros Story’, with Scott Davidson

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 06:00:00 -0700

In this special Campfire Series episode, Scott Davidson joins the podcast to tell us the incredible origin story of Rhino. What began as a simple AutoCAD plugin in the early 90s evolved into something much bigger through an unexpected series of events. Scott shares the surprising story behind how Rhino got its name, its journey from industrial design to architecture, and how an accidental "leak" helped shape the software's destiny. We also discuss how some of architecture's biggest names, including Frank Gehry, discovered and adopted Rhino early on, leading to its widespread use in complex geometric design and digital fabrication today.

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175: ‘Realtime Decision Making’, with Ian Keough and Keith Fine

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Ian Keough and Keith Fine join the podcast to talk about how SLAM Collaborative and Hypar are working together to change the healthcare design process from early programming to fabrication. SLAM brings practical architectural experience and the vision while Hypar provides powerful design automation tools. Keith explains how they're making healthcare space planning faster and more efficient, while Ian talks about how their software has adapted to meet real architectural needs. Their work demonstrates how architects and software developers can work together to create better building design tools. This conversation covers the story of how Hypar 2.0 has come to be.

About Ian Keough:

Ian's early work at Buro Happold identified a need for mobile applications to leverage BIM data. His software goBIM was acquired by Vela systems for their Vela Field product, which later became Autodesk's BIM 360 Field. His open-source visual programming language Dynamo has a worldwide community and now ships with Revit. He co-founded Hypar with Anthony Hauck in 2018 with a vision to deliver the worlds building expertise to everyone, instantly.

About Keith Fine:

Keith, is a Principal at SLAM and serves as the Management lead for the Los Angeles Studio as well as the National Director of Innovation for the firm. Keith combines his unique experiences including construction, technical architect, leadership with his passion for design and innovation forming a very broad and unique perspective. Keith engages challenge with a strong team-building focus that leverages the very best from those around him. Through these networked relationships and exposures, Keith has a unique skill in understanding the interconnected nature of seemingly disparate technologies and strategies and cultivating the development of new and innovative solutions. He holds an Masters of Architecture from Tulane University and is a member of the California Council of the American Institute of Architects, on the Steering committee for the Innovation Design Consortium and a Technology Leader in the AIA LFRT.

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174: ‘The Bluebeam Story’, with Don Jacob

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:00:00 -0700

In this special Campfire Series episode, Don Jacob joins the podcast to tell us the Bluebeam story.

Today we discuss Don’s fascinating journey from working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to co-founding Bluebeam and transforming the AEC industry along the way. Don talks about the origins of Bluebeam, its impact on AEC, and hear his thoughts on the future of technology in these fields, including the role of AI and mobile. Our conversation reveals how Bluebeam has evolved over 23 years to become an industry-leading tool that has wildly succeeded at elevating project collaboration and document management in AEC.

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173: ‘Raising Digital Literacy’, with Cody Winchester

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 06:00:00 -0700

Cody Winchester joins the podcast to talk about insights from his recent case study he presented in the Fall of 2024 at Autodesk University, discussing the evolution of digital literacy and technology implementation at HMC Architects. We explore the importance of bridging the gap between practice and technology, the role of training in modern architectural education, the critical need to capture and transfer knowledge from experienced professionals to the next generation, and the challenges and successes of integrating technology into architectural practice as the underlying technology of practice continues to evolve at a pace that is difficult to keep up with.

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172: ‘Architects in Airports Talking AI and AEC’, with Phil Read

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:45:00 -0700

Phil Read joins the podcast to talk about leveraging AI for meaningful work, the importance of curiosity and play in professional development, building personas for better communication and storytelling, rethinking architectural documentation workflows, the evolving role of BIM managers, integrating empathy into design processes, the transformative power of constraints, and how AI is reshaping client engagement, education, and personal creativity in architecture.

Enjoy this special, final episode of 2024 that was recorded in-person as two architects met in the Denver airport to have a conversation about AI and AEC.

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About Phil Read:

Phil is the CEO and co-founder of Read | Thomas - a global BIM/VDC consulting group and go-to-market startup advisor.

In 2020, Read | Thomas founded the AEC Leadership Retreat, an annual event focused on developing good leadership skills for people in the high stress / low control AEC industry.

When not traveling, you're likely to find Phil driving around Charlotte in a vintage 1960's TR3A or hanging out on Holden Beach, NC in a restored 70's beach cottage.

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171: ‘From Model to Machine’, with Brian Nickel and Brett Settles

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Brian Nickel and Brett Settles join the podcast to talk about their latest work at the intersection of BIM and fabrication. We talk about the innovations the Allied BIM team have created that link design intent directly to the machines on the floor in the shop. Brian and Brett share their insights on the evolution of BIM technologies, the importance of user-friendly web-based platforms, and the role of training and VR in remote management. They discuss real-world applications, the skilled labor shortage, and the future of construction automation, making a compelling case for the transformative potential of their work.

Tune in to hear about how Allied BIM is bridging the gap between design intent and on-site execution, and learn about their vision for the future of the critical link between design and the trades.

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About Brian Nickel:

With over 10 years of experience in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, Brian D. Nickel is the CEO and Founder of Allied BIM, a pioneering firm that develops and delivers cutting-edge fabrication tools and solutions for Autodesk Revit and BIM 360 platforms. He is also an Autodesk Revit Architecture Certified Professional and a Part 107 FAA-Certified Drone Pilot, demonstrating his proficiency and versatility in AEC technology.

As an adjunct instructor at Montana State University's College of Engineering and Gallatin College, Brian shares his passion and expertise in AEC technology with the next generation of AEC professionals. He uses innovative methods such as Microsoft Teams and virtual reality (VR) to create engaging and immersive learning environments for his students. He also actively participates in national conferences and speaking engagements, where he advocates for a collaborative and integrated approach to design and construction. Brian's mission is to advance the AEC industry through technology and teamwork and to inspire others to do the same.

About Brett Settles:

Brett has 20 years experience implementing, managing, teaching, and using new technology in Geospatial, Mining, and AEC. He is a dedicated design and construction technologist looking to use data, emerging technology and innovative workflows to better the experiences of those in design, fabrication and construction.

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170: ‘Navigating People, Creativity, and Professional Challenges’, with Jared Anderson

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Jared Anderson joins the podcast to talk about the importance of mental health, understanding one's nervous system, how compartmentalization of past traumas affects present behavior, the challenges of introducing innovative ideas within rigid professional structures and personalities, how to effectively communicate and navigate interpersonal dynamics in the workplace, some new technologies being used for trauma recovery, and more.

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About Jared Anderson:

Jared Anderson is a licensed therapist with extensive experience working with neurodivergent individuals and those dealing with deep-seated trauma. His unique perspective has been shaped by his work with severely abused and neglected children, giving him valuable insights into dissociative disorders and their impact on both personal and professional life.

Jared specializes in helping clients understand their nervous systems and sensory experiences, often employing innovative techniques that blend traditional therapy with modern technology. His approach explores the intricate relationship between creativity, trauma, and professional development.

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169: ‘Shaping an Innovation Culture’, with Matthew Krissel

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Matthew Krissel joins the podcast to talk about his extensive 25-year journey in the architectural field including his history at KieranTimberlake and now at Perkins&Will, his new design leadership course at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture in which his students design new business models for architectural practice, integrating Artificial Intelligence in architectural education, creative friction, group dynamics, the power of questions, the role of safe spaces for creativity, the impact of organizational structure on creativity, reimagining digital practice in architecture, the importance of presentation skills, encouraging entrepreneurship in architectural education, reimagining workflows with AI, and the impact of AI on architectural education and practice.

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About Matthew Krissel:

Matthew is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and has led the design and construction of transformative architectural projects in North America and Internationally for over two decades. He is a principal at Perkins&Will, a global, interdisciplinary architecture and design firm.

In 2023, Matthew co-founded the Built Environment Futures Council (BEFC), a diverse, multidisciplinary group that advances design, technology, and Artificial Intelligence in Architecture and Construction with actionable leadership and insight. He also founded and directs Creative Lab 3, an innovative research and design platform focusing on architecture, writing, and photography to catalyze and shape ideas and research that inspire change and transform our collective future.

He regularly shares his work, methods, and ideas, speaking and publishing nationally and internationally on architecture, design, and the intersection of technology and the built environment. As an adjunct faculty member at the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture, he is invested in developing the next generation of design leaders.

Before joining Perkins&Will, Matthew was a Partner at KieranTimberlake in Philadelphia. His design work over nearly 20 years at KT helped shape the firm’s most significant and impactful projects, including iconic, institution-defining architecture and small homes with big ideas.

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168: ‘The Challenges of Under-Digitization in AEC’, with César Flores Rodríguez

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:00:00 -0700

César Flores Rodríguez joins the podcast to talk about various challenges and opportunities in digitizing the under-digitalized AEC sector and what the latest thinking in digital twins brings to the table. We cover real-time monitoring, cost reduction, and energy efficiency, and more. We get into the specifics of Nemetschek's new, open DTwin platform and the chellenging task of driving industry adoption.

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167: ‘The Battle Over Building Codes Continues’, with Scott Reynolds

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Scott Reynolds joins the podcast to talk about the ongoing legal and legislative battles surrounding building codes and their accessibility. He gives us an update on the latest news and happening regarding the Pro Codes Act and elaborates on the contentious issue of copyrighting building regulations that impact AEC and beyond.

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166: ‘Dirty Little Secrets’, with Parley Burnett and Chris Shafer

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Parley Burnett and Chris Shafer join the podcast to talk about the hidden inefficiencies within the AEC industry. We discuss the automation of industry standards, educating software users in real-time, streamlines processes, the importance of BIM model health, eliminating technical debt and the ROI associated with these things, and more.

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165: ‘Transitioning to Leading People in AEC Tech’, with Phil Read and Adam Thomas

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 03:30:00 -0700

Phil Read and Adam Thomas join the podcast to talk about leadership development, the crucial balance between technical know-how and soft skills, cultivating interpersonal relationships, stress management, mentorship, where to go to foster leadership skills and behaviors, accountability, and more. You’ll also learn about the upcoming AEC Acoustics retreat that is blending leadership and technical skill enhancement through collaborative discussions in a low-key, energizing environment.

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164: ‘The Technology in Architecture Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community’, with Ryan Cameron

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Ryan Cameron joins the podcast to talk about the recent AI focused Technology in Architecture Practice (TAP) Symposium at AIA’24.

Today he shares insights from the symposium headlined by keynote speakers Phil Bernstein and Dr. Mehdi Nourbakhsh, PhD, who have both previously appeared on TRXL, and he provides an explanation of what these knowledge communities are and how they fit into the AIA.

Tune in to learn more about what TAP is doing at the growing intersection between technology and architecture, the importance of sharing across the profession, how TAP’s volunteers are leading the charge in this community, and some exciting opportunities for innovation grants being offered by TAP.

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163: ‘Confusing Evolution With Innovation’, with Nirva Fereshetian

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Nirva Fereshetian joins the podcast to talk about the complexities of implementing and managing digital practice within an architecture firm, including the challenges posed by tool fatigue, the importance of understanding business problems, and the intricacies of vetting and adopting new technology.

Our discussion covers the evolving role of technology in architectural practice, the benefits of collaboration between firms within the AEC industry, and the importance of building a continuous learning culture. Nirva also shares insights on integrating technology seamlessly into architectural practices and fostering innovation through effective communication and relationship-building.

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162: Campfire Series - ‘BLDGBLOG Turns 20’, with Geoff Manaugh

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:00:00 -0700

In this special Campfire Series episode, Geoff Manaugh joins the podcast to tell us the story of BLDGBLOG.

We discuss how he maintains an online presence while playing the algorithm games of social media and talk about the topic of content ownership and the evolution of blogging.

We also get into the creative opportunities Geoff has found by blending architecture with other disciplines, learn about his journey from blogger to author, talk about his Hollywood experiences with his fictional writing, and hear about some upcoming projects including a new book on archaeology.

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161: ‘Project Phoenix, Part 3: Innovating with Mycelium’, with David Benjamin and Thomas van Harenz

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 06:00:00 -0700

David Benjamin and Thomas van Haren join the podcast to talk about the journey of creating sustainable building materials using mycelium, the history of their partnership and the evolution from demonstration projects to scalable solutions, insights on the importance of digital workflows, the challenges and innovations in building facades, and the incredible versatility of mycelium as a materials platform.

We also talk about the potential of mycelium to revolutionize various industries and the urgent need for scalable, carbon-negative solutions in architecture building materials and beyond.

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160: ‘Project Phoenix, Part 2: Prefab Modular’, with David Benjamin and Andrew Meagher

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:00:00 -0700

David Benjamin and Andrew Meagher join the podcast to talk about prefab modular and the construction of Project Phoenix in the second installment of a three-part series of episodes on the podcast. In this episode, we take a comprehensive look at Factory_OS's modular manufacturing approach to residential construction and its partnership with Autodesk which aims to create sustainable and affordable housing. Today we talk about the role of data-driven design, innovation throughout all stages of design and construction, and the collaborative approach to address housing and climate challenges with this project.

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159: ‘Project Phoenix, Part 1: Design’, with David Benjamin and Ryan McNulty

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 06:00:00 -0700

David Benjamin and Ryan McNulty join the podcast to talk about the integration of architecture and technology in creating a 300-unit affordable housing development in the Bay Area called Project Phoenix.

The project involves a unique collaboration between MBH Architects, Factory OS, and Autodesk, and how they leveraged generative design and real-time analytics software tools. Our conversation also highlights the efficiencies gained through modular construction, the challenges of incorporating new technology in design and construction, and potential implications for the AEC industry.

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158: ‘AEC is an Adhocracy’, with Andy Robert and Mercedes Carriquiry

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Andy Robert and Mercedes Carriquiry join the podcast to talk about their focus on technology, parametric architecture, and BIM, the transformative 'a-ha moments' that defined their company /slantis, their mission, the importance of collaboration, knowledge management, company culture, and their ambitious goal of changing the architectural industry for the better. We also chat about obstacles they’ve faced, especially the industry's entrenched hourly billing systems, and the need for innovation and better project management.

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157: ‘Aligning and Orchestrating the Process’, with Krzysztof Jędrzejewski

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Krzysztof Jędrzejewski joins the podcast to talk about his career transition from traditional architecture to technology. He shares his Eastern European roots, educational background, and early work experiences in Poland and Denmark, including his involvement in groundbreaking projects like the Mercedes Museum. He talks about a crucial interview that propelled him towards tech in architecture and led him to work with Reope and now Autodesk Forma.

The conversation covers benefits of cloud-based software solutions, advanced tools like Grasshopper, Dynamo, and Ladybug, and the role of computational tools, AI in early-stage design, the importance of integrations with other AEC tools like TestFit and Veras in Autodesk Forma, and more.

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156: ‘Why Are We Doing This in the First Place?’, with Shane Burger

Wed, 29 May 2024 03:30:00 -0700

Shane Burger joins the podcast to talk about current and potential future impacts of AI and automation on architectural practice, the shift from perpetual to per-user licensing in AEC project delivery software, license management difficulties, enhancing productivity and improving project delivery while maintaining a human-centric approach, reevaluating business models towards valuing outcomes and performance, rethinking workflows, balancing technological advancements and the essence of human intelligence and empathy, and more.

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155: ‘Shortening the Feedback Loop’, with AJ Lightheart and Jon Matalucci

Tue, 14 May 2024 03:30:00 -0700

AJ Lightheart and Jon Matalucci join the podcast to talk about how they have worked together during the process of developing and testing the Autodesk Workshop XR platform which aims to evolve how professionals in architecture, engineering, and construction industries collaborate by using extended reality (XR) environments.

Today we talk about the benefits of immersive VR experiences for project visualization and coordination, and how such tools foster enhanced decision-making and empathy in design processes.

Additionally, we talk about the practical aspects of adopting XR technologies in firms, including hardware recommendations and strategies for wider organizational implementation.

This episode not only highlights Workshop XR's potential to democratize design processes but also emphasizes the ongoing evolution of digital practice in creating efficient, sustainable, and highly collaborative project environments in the early phases of the design process, which also leads to the opportunity for professional development and mentorship of design professionals along their career path.

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154: ‘Construction is Sick’, with Jim Walker

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Jim Walker joins the podcast to talk about the systemic problems plaguing the construction industry and the parallels in architecture and engineering.

Jim brings over 20 years of experience in general contracting and project management across North America from sweeping floors at construction sites to working for major firms like PCL and EllisDon.

Our conversation highlights the industry's evolution towards digital transformation, increasing complexity and, yet in many ways, inefficiency. But more importantly, we discuss the concept of construction being 'sick', the adversarial nature of traditional contract models, toxic work environments, health issues among workers, the value of the blue collar work and the trades, pros and cons of different project delivery models, risk and reward, and more.

Overall, the episode encapsulates a critical analysis of the construction industry's challenges and potential paths forward through innovation and systemic change.

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153: ‘Emotional Archaeology’, with Susan Young

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Susan Young joins the podcast to talk about the art of persuasive communication and storytelling, particularly in leadership roles within the AEC industry. We discuss the importance of not only building but reading the room, asking quality questions, and practicing deep listening. The conversation also explores how being fully present and curious can lead to more effective interactions and projects.

Susan underscores the two key traits of superior leaders: confidence and excellent communication skills, emphasizing that these are skills that can be learned and honed. The conversation highlights the role of soft skills in conveying knowledge effectively, stating that it doesn't matter what you know if you can't communicate and articulate it to others.

We further discuss the crucial role of making a strong first impression, owning the fact that you're a media production company via social media and the internet, and understanding the art of the headline to hook your audience. The episode wraps up with a discussion on a people-centric approach to talking about tech and tools in firms, highlighting that we relate most to the human to human (H2H) stories.

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152: ‘Left to My Own Devices’, with Kean Walmsley

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Kean Walmsley joins the podcast to talk about his background both in computing and in his career journey leading to and while at Autodesk. We also talk about the development and applications of the VASA (voxel-based architectural space analysis) toolkit for Dynamo, the impact of AR and XR in the AEC industry, the significance of real-time feedback during the design process, and much more.

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151: ‘The Zoo That’s in the Room’, with Roderick Bates and Kam Star

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Roderick Bates and Kam Star join the podcast to talk about the integration of AI and real-time data into architectural design processes. In this episode we explore how these technologies can enhance workflows, beyond just visualization tools, for informed decision-making on energy use and building performance. They also discuss their new partnership with the Illuminating Engineering Society (aka IES), an organization specializing in all-things lighting, to enhance their tool’s capabilities and steer it in a new direction.

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150: ‘Embracing Change’, with Timothy Halvorson

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Timothy Halvorson joins the podcast to talk about the challenges of technology implementation in firms. He shares his experiences in both traditional and tech-focused roles in the AEC industry, and underlines the importance of understanding people, processes, and the potential of technology. We also touch upon the struggle of change in firms, the evolving role of a BIM manager, the role of AI in creativity and efficiency, the importance of automating low level tasks, the role of standards in a firm, the shift to cloud-based software, and the complexity of modern software. Timothy also introduces his new venture, 7fold.io, aimed at bridging the gap between academia and commercial practice, providing tailored solutions and strategies to people and firms interested in digital transformation.

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149: ‘The Power of Curiosity and Continuous Learning’, with Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough joins the podcast to talk about the value of hands-on experience in understanding the transition from digital design to physical creation, the importance of making mistakes and learning from them in the iterative process of prototyping, creating and manufacturing, the resident program at the Autodesk Technology Center, the importance of maintaining real relationships with partners, the power of curiosity and continuous learning, and more.

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148: ‘Universal Language’, with Petr Mitev

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Petr Mitev joins the podcast to talk about his journey from working in architecture to focusing on technology in the AEC industry, his move to Germany as his role has evolved at Enscape, some of his philosophy about AI and its potential for architects, the democratization of tools and the superpowers they provide to users, and the release of Enscape for the Mac.

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147: ‘The Era of Spatial Computing’, with John Manoochehri

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 06:00:00 -0700

John Manoochehri joins the podcast to talk about how the intersection of design, architecture and engineering, game engines, and new hardware are changing the landscape and potential impact of spatial computing and digital environments for the authors and creators of these environments in the AEC industry. We address it from a cataloging, usage and licensing perspective, and talk about how creative industries are leading the way in exploring the potential of this medium. We also talk about how this tech is opening up new possibilities in fields like entertainment, productivity, and mental health, and how it also challenges our understanding of what good design means as it pushes beyond the experience of physical environments. And finally we chat about the intersection of digital and physical design and how a feedback loop could lead to shifts in the design of physical spaces based on people’s experiences in digital environments.

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146: ‘The Gordian Knot, Part 2’, with Phil Read

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Phil Read once again joins the podcast for part 2 of our conversation to talk about his upcoming 2024 AEC Acoustics Best Practice Roundtable event, the importance of saying 'no' to maintain personal freedom and creativity, how modern pressures for efficiency and productivity can stifle creativity and personal satisfaction, the impact of technology and media on our ability to enjoy and appreciate music and art, how saying 'no' to certain opportunities can open doors to more fulfilling and personally meaningful experiences, and more.

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145: ‘The Gordian Knot, Part 1’, with Phil Read

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Phil Read joins the podcast to talk about the value of an in-person conversation, Phil’s personal journey, his experiences in AEC tech over the last few decades, the value of an architect, advice for students interesting in pursuing architecture, advice for those thinking about starting their own firms, investing in tools versus buying toys, how to gain the luxury to say ‘no’, how Phil got into Revit and Enscape, the importance of systematizing processes, a look ahead at the future of the industry, and more.

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144: Campfire Series - ‘The SketchUp Story’, with Brad Schell

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 06:00:00 -0700

In this special Campfire Series episode, Brad Schell joins the podcast to tell us the story of SketchUp.

We hear about his experiences that led to creation of SketchUp, deep insights into building the @Last company culture and how it ultimately contributed to the product's success, his leadership philosophy and style, what he looked for when hiring, how they got funding, what they did differently than other CAD and 3d modeling packages available at the time, how they created a product that to this day—24 years later—continues to resonate so deeply with the hearts and minds of its users, how it got its name, and so much more.

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143: ‘The Future AEC Software Specification’, with Andy Watts and Aaron Perry

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 06:00:00 -0700

Andy Watts and Aaron Perry join the podcast to talk about the need for a next-generation data framework in the AEC industry. Together they are leading the charge, along with many others, in developing the Future AEC Software Specification. The goal is an industry-wide dialogue to create a modern technology foundation that fosters competition in the AEC software market. Not a small task by any means.

We chat about the journey that led to the creation of the specification, the context in which the specification was developed, how architectural practices have reevaluated their processes during and after the COVID-19 lockdown, the Autodesk Open Letters and the media attention they garnered, the changes being made by Autodesk as a result, what the specification is, Aaron’s presentation of the specification at NXTBLD (for which a link to watch can be found in the show notes), the reception of the presentation and other feedback since, how one can get involved with the development of the specification, and more.

Overall, this conversation emphasizes the importance of industry engagement, collaboration, and the long-term process of implementing the specification to drive positive change in the AEC industry.

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142: ‘Reverse Engineering’, with Emil Poulsen

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Emil Poulsen of CORE Studio at Thornton Tomasetti and Modelup joins the podcast to talk about the challenges and opportunities of implementing new technologies in the AEC industry, both internally in a firm but also externally as products. We delve into the importance of communication, buy-in, and cultural change when introducing new tools and processes, the culture of AEC tech and the entrepreneurial spirit at TT, Emil’s insights from his experience in developing tools and pushing for adoption within a global engineering firm, the benefits of participating in hackathons like the recent 2023 AEC Tech event hosted by CORE Studio in New York City, and we talk about his work on web-based 3d configurators for digital products at Modelup.

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141: ‘AI is Not Your Strategy’, with Mehdi Nourbakhsh and Scott Thompson

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Mehdi Nourbakhsh, Ph.D. of YegaTech and Scott Thompson of SSOE Group join the podcast to talk about how YegaTech and SSOE are working together to create an AI implementation strategy for a 1,000 person AEC firm. We also talk about Mehdi’s latest book on AI for AEC, why firms should be working to develop technology implementation strategies based on business goals rather than simply chasing after the shiny new thing, the importance of focusing on people in the implementation of AI in the AEC industry, the need to address people-related challenges to create a culture of innovation, and more.

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140: ‘You Had Me at Anger’, with Håvard Vasshaug

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Håvard Vasshaug of Anker joins the podcast to talk about his passion for AEC tech and the challenges in the industry. He tells the story of his journey with the Bad Monkeys, Reope, and Anker, and we also chat a lot about why it’s healthy to be dissatisfied—angry even—at the software we all use. We also cover change management, BIM and the necessity of consistent and quality data, and the problems he and the team are currently solving at Anker regarding the use of BIM in operations and facilities maintenance. We conclude with a discussion on the future of BIM and the potential for liberating architects and engineers from data management tasks and bad software.

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139: ‘The Importance of Knowledge Sharing’, with Nicolas Catellier

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 07:30:00 -0700

Nicolas Catellier of BIM Pure joins the podcast to talk about his transition from being an architect to becoming a BIM consultant and content creator. From his early passion for tech to his journey of specializing in BIM, Nicolas shares his insights and experiences. Tune in to learn more about the power of content creation, the value of being a specialist in the field, and the importance of sharing knowledge in the AEC industry.

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138: ‘The Opposite of Garbage-In, Garbage-Out’, with Marty Rozmanith

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Marty Rozmanith of Skema joins the podcast to talk about his journey through the world of AEC tech. From self-taught programming skills to pioneering the use of 3d in AutoCAD in the early days, to Revit, then post-Autodesk with Dassault Systèmes and beyond, Marty shares unexpected twists and turns that shaped his career with the common thread of always trying to better connect design to construction. Join us as we explore the fascinating path that led Marty to where he is today and what challenges he’s got his sights set on solving for our industry with his latest venture, Skema.

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137: ‘Accelerating Tech in AEC’, with German Aparicio, Jr.

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:00:00 -0700

German Aparicio, Jr. of Trimble Ventures joins the podcast to talk about Trimble Ventures’ new venture fund program to stimulate innovation in AEC, the importance of connecting the job site with design, mentorship and the value of real-world experience, the use of AI and machine learning in the AEC industry, and the potential of multimodal models and natural language interfaces in the latest AI tools.

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136: ‘Rhino.Inside.TRXL’, with Japhy Walton

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Japhy Walton of McNeel and Associates joins the podcast to talk about his journey in AEC and how that plays into his current role at McNeel, the ongoing development of Grasshopper and Rhino.Inside.Revit, the evolution of their relationship with Autodesk, the importance of user input and feedback, the improvements in tools for architects in the upcoming Rhino v8 release, and other topics.

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135: ‘Realizing the Potential’, with Nathan Miller

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Nathan Miller of Proving Ground joins the podcast to talk about the importance of maintaining a critical view when it comes to tools and technology, the need to evaluate new technologies and innovations carefully to determine if they align with the desired goals, the value of balancing established experience with new advancements and fostering bi-directional learning between innovators and experienced professionals, the challenge of navigating the constantly evolving nature of technology and architectural design, the importance of learning from previous projects to drive continuous improvement, and other topics.

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134: ‘The (Chaotic) State of the AEC Tech Industry, Part 2’, with Martyn Day

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Martyn Day of X3DMedia joins the podcast for part 2 of our conversation. In this episode we talk about the disruptive impact of AI on architecture, Autodesk's response to the Open Letters, software licensing, open standards, pros and cons of AEC’s shift to the cloud, the importance of BIM 2.0, challenges with technology moving too fast, prefab construction, the future of 2D drafting, challenges faced by software developers in the AEC space, the importance of customers being included during the software development cycle, digital twins, the problems with hype cycles in AEC tech, the future of the NXT BLD and NXT DEV conferences, and other topics.

To learn more about Martyn Day, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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133: ‘The (Chaotic) State of the AEC Tech Industry, Part 1’, with Martyn Day

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Martyn Day of X3DMedia joins the podcast to talk about the current state of AEC tech. In part 1 of the conversation we specifically focus on our challenges, potential avenues for growth that exist within the industry, and cover an amazing amount of valuable insight into the industry's dynamics, both seen and unseen.

For a bit more context, we discuss the lack of a standard workflow in AEC, the NXT BLD and NXT DEV conferences, similar challenges in the Mechanical CAD ecosystem, the future of Revit, problems with the shift to the cloud, the importance of IT and digital practice leadership roles, software business models, concerns about data security, BIM 2.0, and the dynamics of VC funding. We also touch on the impact of AI tools, the automation of 2D drawings, and the link between design and fabrication.

To learn more about Martyn Day, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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132: ‘Breaking All The Rules’, with Clifton Harness

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0700

In this special partner episode, Clifton Harness of TestFit joins the podcast to talk about the founding story of the company, the decision to pursue technology over traditional architecture, the missing elements in the design process that led to the development of TestFit, TestFit as a co-creation tool, the impact of AI on site selection, design optimization, and pro forma valuation, TestFit's unique approach and value proposition, the difference between generative design and TestFit's optimization solver, benefits for players in a development deal, multifamily market trends, the recent investment from Prologis, upcoming developments for the TestFit platform, and an upcoming webinar on AI in real estate and industrial real estate.

To learn more about Clifton Harness, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

131: ‘It’s Prompting Us’, with Benjamin Guler

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Benjamin Guler of EvolveLab joins the podcast to talk about their tools for Revit, design workflows, automation, interoperability, prompt-based AI rendering, the novel differences between AI rendering and more traditional rendering tools, how this novel workflow affects rendering as a decision-making tool in the design workflow, how it has the potential to shift where visualization fits into the design phase in contrast to existing rendering tools, and other topics.

To learn more about Benjamin Guler, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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130: ‘Design Tools and the Circular Economy’, with Lance Amato

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Lance Amato of Canoa joins the podcast to talk about the disconnected and circuitous nature of design tools and workflows in relation to the furniture supply chain and project delivery process, circular economy, sustainability, product fulfillment, Canoa’s marketplace which offers a collection of second life furniture, their free 2d design tool for space planning, and other topics.

To learn more about Lance Amato, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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129: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’, with Jeff Echols

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Jeff Echols of Shadow Partners joins the podcast to talk about the larger topic of innovation in the built environment and how it should focus on outcomes for people, whether it's employees, clients, or inhabitants of buildings. We also talk about how technology and tools are augmenting designers to solve problems to ultimately achieve those outcomes, how leaders should focus on creating a culture of innovation to address pain points and set themselves apart from commoditization in the industry, and more.

To learn more about Jeff Echols, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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128: ‘Space Architecture’, with Daniel Inocente

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Daniel Inocente joins the podcast to talk about the field of space architecture. We also chat about his experience working at firms including SOM, HKS, Gehry Partners, and NASA that informed his pedagogic approach in architectural education to address the challenges in bridging the gap between practice and academia, digital tools used for design from mixed use projects to high rises to space architecture, and much more.

To learn more about Daniel Inocente, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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127: ‘Accelerating Offsite Construction’, with Radu Gidei

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Radu Gidei of KOPE joins the podcast to talk about their vision to provide a software platform for designers, builders, and manufacturers to transition from design to construction using prefabricated products for the offsite construction market.

Radu also talks about the challenges that contractors and architects face when trying to adopt offsite construction—including the lack of visibility into available construction systems and the risks associated with using new systems on a project—without the need to completely revolutionize their workflows.

Overall, this episode provides insight into the world of offsite construction and how KOPE is working to make it easier for designers and builders to adopt it.

To learn more about Radu Gidei, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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126: ‘Be the Rock Star of Your Industry’, with Carey Balogh and Lauren Genest

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Carey Balogh and Lauren Genest of Brand Groupies join the podcast to talk about their unique SOPR approach, which combines social media and PR to fuel brand recognition, storytelling, and personality-driven strategy, their background in fashion, and how looking at AEC through that lens informs their strategy.

To learn more about Carey Balogh and Lauren Genest, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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125: ‘Disrupting the Narrative’, with Maria Yablonina

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Maria Yablonina of the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto joins the podcast to talk about robotics in architecture; specifically her work in developing tools and machines to aid in construction projects where she emphasizes the importance of both considering practical applications and involving workers in the development process. Maria also highlights the need for interdisciplinary collaboration and the importance of empathy and literacy in navigating different fields.

To learn more about Maria Yablonina, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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124: ‘Interoperability is a Trap’, with Dimitrie Stefanescu and Matteo Cominetti

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Dimitrie Stefanescu and Matteo Cominetti of Speckle join the podcast to talk about Speckle: an open-source data platform for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, which aims to make it easier for people to connect their tools and share data. We also discuss how the platform's community-built connectors enable users to connect to Rhino, Revit, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Excel, and many more applications via the cloud.

The conversation also covers how Dimitrie, Matteo and the team are exploring the integration of machine learning models and automation workflows into the platform, their belief that open-source infrastructure is necessary for equitable distribution of value within the AEC industry, and how the industry should compete on the designs produced, not on the tools used to produce them.

To learn more about Dimitrie Stefanescu, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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123: ‘Bringing AI to the Building Code’, with Scott Reynolds

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Scott Reynolds of UpCodes joins the podcast to talk about their latest product: Copilot. Copilot leverages AI to make the building code more accessible. We also cover the journey of Upcodes, the challenges of democratizing access to the building code, and the potential for innovation in the compliance space.

To learn more about Scott Reynolds, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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122: ‘Mergers and Acquisitions’, with Boris Rapoport and Alex Osenenko

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Boris Rapoport and Alex Osenenko of ArchIT join the podcast to talk about mergers and acquisitions (M&A). We discuss the importance of planning and communication in the process of acquiring or being acquired by another company, the need for continuity and quality in service delivery, the importance of involving people from various internal teams in the transition, their three-step process for transitioning the acquired company's brand, and more.

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121: ‘The Value of Curiosity’, with Mollie Claypool

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Mollie Claypool of Automated Architecture (AUAR) joins the podcast to talk about how technology could be used to bridge the gap between the way architecture is designed and the way it is built in order to make it more accessible to the 99%. Other topics include robotics and automation in architecture, the disconnect between design and construction, bridging the gap between design and reality, the importance of social values and impact in architecture, the need for hands-on learning and visual thinking in education, and more.

To learn more about Mollie Claypool, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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120: ‘Project Hillside’, with Ryan Cohen and Matt Clarey

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Ryan Cohen and Matt Clarey of Neoscape join the podcast to talk about to talk about Project Hillside. You may not know this project from its “Hillside” name, but you probably have seen and heard of it before (perhaps more-so if you’re coming from an architectural background) as architect Moshe Safdie’s Habitat, an architectural landmark which was built in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1967 for the World’s Fair… although what was built, it turns out, was only an amended version of the overall vision from Safdie’s master’s thesis project at the School of Architecture at McGill University.

Today Project Hillside brings the entire vision to life through an incredibly detailed and fully immersive digital architectural experience, which was a collaboration between the teams of people at Neoscape, Moshe Safdie Architects, and Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.

In this episode Matt, Ryan, and Evan talk about the thousands of hours, dozens of people, and the tools and tech it took to create the experience, as well as the new potentials for user experience and storytelling within immersive digital environments.

To learn more about Ryan Cohen and Matt Clarey, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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119: ‘Nothing Ever Goes as Planned’, with Stefana Parascho

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 07:00:00 -0700

Stefana Parascho of the Lab for Creative Computation (CRCL) joins the podcast to talk about the increasing accessibility of robotics in architecture education and industry, as well as the need to consider the long-term impact and trajectory of the field. In her role as professor, she highlights the excitement and formative experience for students to participate in the ideation and fabrication of precise and complex structures. We also talk about her background in architecture and her experience with computational design, robotics, and her current work with multi-robotic assemblies. Ultimately, Stefana envisions a future where robots can work alongside us as co-workers, with the ability to execute smaller tasks and communicate with humans in a more intuitive way.

To learn more about Stefana Parascho, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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118: ‘The Development of Autodesk Forma’, with Carl Christensen

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Carl Christensen of Autodesk joins the podcast to talk about the development of Forma and their focus on the early phases of the design process for better design outcomes. We talk about how his startup (originally Spacemaker AI) evolved into Forma, the use of AI as an assistant to designers rather than a replacement, and the potential for AI to help with rapid simulations and analysis. We also discuss the benefits of live collaboration, real time access to data, the openness of the platform, and about how Forma is expected to evolve after this first release.

To learn more about Carl Christensen, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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117: ‘Every Day Counts’, with Tessa Lau

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Dr. Tessa Lau of Dusty Robotics joins the podcast to talk about her entrepreneurial background, where the idea for Dusty came from, what Dusty the robot does on construction sites to enable multiple trades to be more efficient and ultimately cut weeks off construction schedules, the design, brand, and persona of the robot, how Dusty works, who’s adopting Dusty as a tool for projects, and much more.

To learn more about Dr. Tessa Lau, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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116: ‘Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks’, with Bob Habian

Fri, 26 May 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Bob Habian of Tect joins the podcast to talk about what we’re actively doing at Tect in our early stage of the business, challenges that we’re addressing head-on in the building industry, how we’re approaching the re-alignment between building product side and design professionals, managing expectations in regards to the timeline involved in overcoming some of these challenges, typical venture funding versus crowdfunding, solving problems from within versus from the outside of our industry, and more.

To learn more about Bob Habian, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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115: ‘The First Level of Engagement’, with Campbell Yule

Tue, 16 May 2023 03:00:00 -0700

Campbell Yule of Cerulean Labs (makers of the Spaces App) joins the podcast to talk about how they are putting a spin on the act of sketching with modern digital tools and analytics, bringing the fun part back to designing, not trying to do everything, the ability to work offline, collaboration and sharing, the magic of sketching in front of clients, iteration in design, and more.

To learn more about the guest, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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114: ‘Technological Telekinesis’, with Dr. Madeline Gannon

Wed, 03 May 2023 03:00:00 -0700

Dr. Madeline Gannon of ATONATON joins the podcast to talk about the potential of robots and machines as they relate to us humans, the difference between programming robots to do a task versus creating an interaction model (AKA how to talk to machines), how working with robotics has led to what she describes as “moving matter with our minds”, her next endeavor with cable driven robots, her work on the continuum of creating intelligent and autonomous machines, and more.

To learn more about the guest, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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113: ‘Surprises Are Not Good’, with Robert Yuen

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 03:00:00 -0700

Robert Yuen of Monograph joins the podcast to talk about economic uncertainty including inflation and interest rates, how they affect architecture and engineering practices, Monograph’s A/E strategic risk report for 2023, how to get ahead of the (likely) upcoming challenges in regards to business foundations, culture, and talent retention, the notion of recalibrating business, the true value of relationships with staff and clients in practice, technology adoption strategies, what’s next for Monograph, and more.

To learn more about the guest, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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112: ‘Start With a Better Framework’, with Christine Williamson

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 03:00:00 -0700

Christine Williamson of Building Science Fight Club joins the podcast to talk about data versus wisdom, the culture of saying ‘no’ in architecture, Instagram as a platform for knowledge transfer and teaching, the reality of every building being a prototype, mentorship (or a lack-thereof) in the profession, the “Kardashianization” of social media and the user’s expectations of creators on those platforms, getting back to first principles thinking and teaching, the idea of ‘code minimum’ as an analogy of architectural education, building science for architects, and having better frameworks for learning the fundamentals of practicing architecture so one can go farther, faster.

To learn more about the guest, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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111: ‘Seeing What Sticks’, with Mark Thorley and David Flynn

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 03:00:00 -0700

Mark Thorley and David Flynn of KOPE join the podcast to talk about ways in which we can move forward as an industry, digital tools, roadblocks, the value of the people behind building products and building relationships with them, offsite construction, prefabrication, how labor shortages, rising material prices, and supply chain problems are catalysts of change, configurators, improving decision making with embedded logic, and the KOPE platform.

To learn more about the guests, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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110: ‘Throwing a Stone into the Future’, with Melodie Yashar

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 06:00:00 -0700

Melodie Yashar of ICON joins the podcast to talk about:

Earth and Space architecture
the glacial pace of “traditional” architecture
her work on competitions for NASA that led becoming a Space Architect
BIM on Mars
how she got connected to ICON
her work at ICON leading the architecture and building performance team
large gantry-based 3d printing for wall systems
ICON’s strategic partnerships on 3d printed housing
procuring building permits for 3d printed housing
ICON’s upcoming universal housing prototype competition
and more

To learn more about the guest, get the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and see past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co

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109: ‘Parametrically Achievable’, with Roger Krulak

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0700

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Roger Krulak of FullStack Modular joins the podcast to talk about:

FullStack Modular's design to manufacturing approach
how they achieve their deliverables using parametric design tools
the typical inefficiency of development that drives innovation at FullStack Modular
the degree to which the building industry is, in Roger’s words, a “big monster”
Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA)
the goal of getting the entire team all on the same side of the table
industrialized construction
and other topics

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Replay – ‘A Growth Mindset’, with Ellen Bensky

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0700

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.

Please rate ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and review TRXL podcast on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen) and don't forget to subscribe and share this episode if you enjoyed it!

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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My YouTube channel

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Replay – ‘Outcomes and Outputs’, with John Turner

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0700

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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Links

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

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0700

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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My YouTube channel

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Replay – ‘A Healthy Dose of Skepticism’, with Nathan Miller

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 16:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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.

Links

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

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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
Jason on Twitter
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

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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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085: ‘The Rigor of Information’, with Wassim Jabi

Tue, 31 May 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 24 May 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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
Eitan on Twitter
SWAPP website
SWAPP 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

Tue, 17 May 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 10 May 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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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Reid on LinkedIn
Doxel on LinkedIn
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081: ‘Give Me the Tools I Need’, with Josh Weiss

Tue, 03 May 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 26 Apr 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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.

Links

Randall on LinkedIn
Randall on Twitter
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

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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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Paul on LinkedIn
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Arcol website
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Arcol waitlist
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077: ‘Be a Beginner Again’, with Keith Huser

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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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Keith on LinkedIn
Peak Projects website
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076: ‘The Answer’s Always Yes’, with René Morkos

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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.

Links

René on LinkedIn
ALICE on LinkedIn
ALICE on Twitter
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

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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
Thom on Twitter
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

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 05:00:00 -0700

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.

Links

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

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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‘

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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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057: ‘Semiconscious Skills’, with Brian Potter

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 04:59:00 -0700

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

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 03:25:00 -0700

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

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:00:00 -0700

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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049: ‘Everything Floats’, with Federico Negro

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 25 May 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 18 May 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 11 May 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 03:53:00 -0700

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

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:00:00 -0700

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.

Links

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

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 04:10:00 -0700

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.

Links

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

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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.

Links

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

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 05:08:00 -0700

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.

Links

TectApp
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035: ‘There‘s Not Much More to Extract’, with Daniel Davis

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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.

Links

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

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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.

Links

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

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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.

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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032: ‘Punctuated Equilibrium’, with Anthony Hauck

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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.

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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031: ‘Various Types of Flow’, with Kat Dovjenko

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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.

Links

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

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 05:00:00 -0700

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.

Links

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

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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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020: ‘The Hard Part’, with Shane Scranton

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 05:35:00 -0700

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

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 06:34:00 -0700

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

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 05:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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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Geoff's amazing blog: BLDGBLOG
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Do the Work by Stephen Pressfield
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The Plague by Albert Camus
Cappadocia, Turkey (Wikipedia)
A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh
Landscapes of Quarantine exhibition
Josh Ruskin (Wikipedia)
Adolph Loos (Wikipedia)
The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness by Emily Anthes
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror by W Scott Poole
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007: 'Reinventing the Wheel', with Konrad Sobon

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 04:00:00 -0700

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

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:30:00 -0700

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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001: TRXL Podcast Teaser

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:00:00 -0700

TRXL is a new podcast about how technology is changing the architectural profession.

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