Insights

June 6, 2017 | Barbara Bryson
Eric Cesal was frustrated when he graduated from architecture school in the winter of 2008, the year the financial world and architecture world came apart. In his book, Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice (2010), Eric observed that architects were among the hardest hit and as a new addition to the profession

May 23, 2017 | Aaron Lapsley
If we polled leaders from the architecture and engineering industry about the biggest effects that information technology has had on their firms over the last decade (software, data, cloud, etc.), their answers would likely cluster around the major changes such technologies drove for the design process and business model of building design.

May 18, 2017 | Blanca Blaney
Every organization is challenged with the vagaries resident in the talent cycle. Far too often businesses neither take the time nor leverage the expertise to ensure they have clear strategy in-hand to guide talent decisions.

May 9, 2017 | Howard Frumkin
Design Matters What matters in design? Practicality matters a great deal. So does cost. Aesthetics are important. But these considerations often eclipse human health and well-being—and the lost opportunity is taking a toll on the health of Americans.

May 2, 2017 | Julian Anderson
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, collaboration is “the action of working with someone to produce or create something.”

April 12, 2017 | Blaine Wishart
Uber is an early example of an Internet of Things (IoT) company. Sensors collect information about location, traffic flow, passenger goals, etc. and use it to augment driver plans and decisions. The resulting increase in functionality has allowed Uber to put more cars on the streets of San Francisco than there were taxis a few years ago.

April 5, 2017 | Lance Josal
I am the CEO of a global architecture and design practice. I have been with the same firm for nearly 40 years. And in the last few years I have seen more change—fundamental, cataclysmic change—than the previous four decades combined.

March 31, 2017 | DesignIntelligence
DFC firm leaders are cautiously optimistic about 2017, but are looking through the turns to the path ahead.

March 21, 2017 / | Sheela Søgaard
Wrestling with growth is a good problem to have, but it can still be a challenge to the cultural sustainability of a firm.

February 3, 2016 | Dickson Despommier
Imagining the sustainable city of the future.

February 17, 2014 | Theodore (Ted) Jojola, Ph.D.
Universities can empower the next generation of architects, planners, and landscape architects in Native American design and planning.

March 2, 2009 | James P. Cramer
The recession will have a dramatic impact on CEO, partner, and principal compensation.