EntreArchitect Podcast with Mark R. LePage

Impacting the Future of Education through Architecture and Design Daniela Holt Voith, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, IIDA, ASID, is Founding Partner & Director of Design at Voith & Mactavish Architects. Holding degrees from Yale University School of Architecture and Bryn Mawr College, Daniela has dedicated her career to promoting the advancement of design for educational environments and developing a...

Sharing a New Paradigm for the Profession of Architecture Jared was raised in New England (Connecticut), educated in Texas (Rice University), and worked in Minnesota for eight years before moving to Seattle, Washington in 2014. Jared is a licensed architect in the state of Washington. Jared founded Shoegnome, LLC in 2010 to promote the use of Archicad and BIM in residential firms. In 2015, Jared e...

Virtual Reality (VR) at Every Stage of Architectural Design Process Peter Twohy is an accomplished residential architect with a passion for creating exceptional custom homes in the mid-Atlantic region. His firm, 2e Architects, was recognized by Baltimore Magazine as Baltimore's Best Architect in the August 2022 issue, and Readers' Choice Best Home in April 2023, highlighting Peter's commitment to...

A Digital Headquarters for Development and Construction Projects Adam's Real Estate career began as an Owners Representative at a NY-based Developer. There, Adam achieved the title and responsibilities of VP of Construction and Development. With years of experience on construction jobsites, Adam completed dozens of multi-million dollar high-complexity development projects. Alongside his Co-Founder...

Exceeding Project Delivery Expectations Courtenay Bauer is a Principal of Los Angeles-based architectural firm Verse Design, which has a sister studio in Shanghai. Prior to co-founding Verse Design LA in 2015, Courtenay worked as a project architect at offices on both coasts of the United States. Courtenay leverages more than 20 years of focused experience in architectural planning, design, and co...

Serving the Architect Community with Context and Clarity In this episode of EntreArchitect Podcast, Jeff Echols, VP of Community Development and founder and co-host of Context & Clarity and Mark R. LePage share the full story of Context & Clarity from it’s COVID-inspired origins, to the impact this important community-based program continues to offer to small firms today. This week on Entr...

Using the Apple iPad to Reinvent the Design Process for Architects Campbell has been involved with a number of businesses over his 25 year career. Following time with Cadimage, Buildmedia, GRAPHISOFT SE and BIMObject, Campbell currently works with small to medium business who are looking to drive growth, primarily with a focus on implementing Subscription (Recurring Revenue) based business models....

How CityScapes Grew to Become an Industry Leader in Innovative Architectural Products Adam McCool, VP of marketing and sales for CityScapes Architectural Innovations, has a track record of success in the fields of sales, marketing, and product development. Since joining CityScapes Architectural Solutions, he continues to lead initiatives that have driven top-line growth and innovation. With more t...

Acelab Dries Carmeliet runs Acelab's product development, data acquisition & engineering teams. Acelab is developing new tools for architects to effectively find the right building products for their projects and get in touch with product reps. Currently, they're working on becoming more than just a search engine and including more and more (artificial) intelligence in their algorithms. Acelab...

An Intelligent Construction Administration Platform for Architects Jack is the CEO and Co-Founder of Part3, where the mission is to enable Architects and Engineers to manage Construction with speed, automation, and intelligence. Jack has held strategic roles and helped launch multiple tech companies prior to taking on the challenge of connecting construction teams and starting Part3. This week on...

Repurposing Shopping Malls Into Thriving, Inclusive, "Character-ful" Communities Alan Pullman, AIA, Founding Partner of Studio One Eleven, believes in the resiliency of cities, taking an optimistic approach to making them more just, inclusive, and sustainable for all. Since founding the Studio in 2000, Pullman has led the design and integration of their architecture and urban design work, includin...

The Business Behind the Design of Ström Architects Magnus has an avid interest in houses and homes, as well as interior and furniture design. This developed as a child growing up in Sweden being surrounded by - and brought up in - Modernist houses. He was fascinated by their beauty, and how design was part of daily life. When asked as a child what he wanted to be when he grew up, the answer was ea...

Talent Plus Technology Results in a Better Built Environment Steve Dell’Orto is the founder and CEO of ConCntric, a preconstruction platform that is transforming the fractured preconstruction environment by unifying data, people and processes. ConCntric acts as a single source of truth for all preconstruction stakeholders by providing a dynamic view of the project that ensures a certainty of outco...

How To Cultivate a Work Winning Culture Bob Fisher brings more than 30 years of strategic foresight, business, branding, communications, and marketing experience to DesignIntelligence. Prior to joining the firm ten years ago, he spent seven years working in strategic communications in the education sector and has worked in marketing for media and entertainment, manufacturing, technology, and other...

The Critical Step Most Architects Are Missing from Their Design Process David Warfel is an overly sensitive, marginally materialistic, pseudo-tree-hugging Midwestern farm boy turned lighting designer. He’s been either lucky, talented, or wealthy enough to land design gigs from New York’s Carnegie Hall to the Las Vegas’ Luxor and MGM Grand casinos, from Chicago’s Hyde Park Arts Center and Museum of...

The Simple Truth About Success as an Architect Jonathan is an attorney in an entrepreneur's body. He thrives on helping CEOs and business owners rethink their next “blue ocean” and achieve breakthrough success in business and life. In 2013, Jonathan left a midsized firm, where he served as corporate counsel for large privately-held corporations and small businesses, to found InPrime Legal – a revo...

Leverage Your Expertise to Share the Value of Architects Joyce Owens FAIA RIBA, received the 2022 AIA Florida Gold Medal, the highest award AIA Florida bestows and in 2020, received the AIA Florida Medal of Honor for Design. A University of Notre Dame graduate, Joyce left her London-based practice after 15 years and relocated to Florida in 2004. Both her UK practice and, now, her Florida firm have...

The Architecture Firm Franchise The Pride Road Franchise grew out of Founder Lisa Raynes’ refusal to accept that there was only one way for a woman to have an architecture career and a family life. She built her practice in the domestic sector, and then invested to turn her business into one that other ambitious architects wanting work/life balance can buy into. She’s had a seat on the RIBA Counci...

How To Develop Great Ideas Carla helps organizations that are constrained by old-school approaches when taking on new world problems. Often these companies struggle with unpredictability, frustrating inefficiencies, and a shortfall of results. They might point fingers and say they have the wrong people, the wrong strategy, or the wrong product. But in reality, it’s outdated methods. As the world’s...

5 Steps To a More Productive BIM Process Chris finished his Bachelor of Architecture from University of Idaho in 1991 where his thesis was the first to be completed entirely in CAD. From there he worked as an intern for a small architecture firm working on small commercial and residential projects and assisted the company switching from hand drafting to CAD. This was followed by a couple years of...

Intelligent Apartment Buildings Robert is a serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded IDS, a Cornell startup acquired for 24X revenue which sold a fault tolerant message bus to NYSE, Wall St. firms and telcos. Robert has held technology and architecture VP/Director-level positions at Stratus, Lucent, Mercury Systems and networking startups and was a co-founder of Coincident, an energy manageme...

The Mysterious Connection Between Place and a Long Healthy Life Ryan focuses on the intersection of place and healthy longevity. He is the author of bestselling Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of Life (Johns Hopkins). Here advises real estate developers on how to create places to help people thrive and provides consumer content to make wise choice...

The Up Studio John Patrick Winberry, AIA is the founding partner and architect at The Up Studio, an architecture, interior, and brand design studio in New York City, specializing in contemporary design. John’s approach to architecture balances theory and approachability, comfortably guiding the client to an understanding of complex design theories. He is particularly drawn to simplicity and dualit...

A Guide To Creating Better Homes Chris Briley is a principal architect at Briburn where he practices “architecture for life” specializing in sustainable design. He is a Certified Passive House Consultant. He is also cohost of the Green Architects’ Lounge podcast, an enthusiastic participant of the Building Science Discussion Group in Portland, and a founding board member of PassivhausMAINE. When n...

Behind the Design at Wade Weissmann Architecture Tom’s residential architectural journey began in 1994 with an internship at RWA Architects in Cincinnati and would take him to Chicago to work under Thomas Beeby, (learning classical and traditional principles and details), and subsequently Stuart Cohen and Julie Hacker, (where traditional details were fused with a tailored, transitional design appr...