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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...

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 indu...

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, architec...

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...

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 Check out my other podc...

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 wat...

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 Re...

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 th...

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 Lin...

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 Cons...

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 D...

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 Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse My YouTube channel Connect with Evan Twit...

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 Archite...

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 reco...

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 a...

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...

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 (Faceb...

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 we...

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...

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’...

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 T...

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 s...

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 Archi...

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 In...

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. Lin...