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David Mayernik is an architect, artist, writer, educator and most of all, he is a life-long student. David grew up in Allentown Pennsylvania. As he tells us during this episode, even at a young age of two he already loved to draw. He says he always had a pencil and paper with him and he used them constantly. His mother kept many of his drawings and he still has many of them to this day.   After graduating from University of Notre Dame David held several positions with various architectural firms. He always believed that he learned more by teaching himself, however, and eventually he decided to leave the professional world of architecture and took teaching positions at Notre Dame. He recently retired and is now Professor Emeritus at Notre Dame.   Our conversation is far ranging including discussions of life, the importance of learning and growing by listening to your inner self. David offers us many wonderful and insightful lessons and thoughts we all can use. We even talk some about about how technology such as Computer Aided Design systems, (CAD), are affecting the world of Architecture. I know you will enjoy what David has to say. Please let me know your thoughts through email at michaelhi@accessibe.com.     About the Guest:   David Mayernik is an architect, artist, writer, and educator. He was born in 1960 in Allentown, Pennsylvania; his parents were children of immigrants from Slovakia and Italy. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the British Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, and has won numerous grants, awards and competitions, including the Gabriel Prize for research in France, the Steedman Competition, and the Minnesota State Capitol Grounds competition (with then partner Thomas N. Rajkovich). In 1995 he was named to the decennial list of the top forty architects in the United States under forty. In the fall of 2022, he was a resident at the Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria and the Cini foundation in Venice.   His design work for the TASIS campus in Switzerland over twenty-eight years has been recognized with a Palladio Award from Traditional Building magazine, an honorable mention in the INTBAU Excellence Awards, and a jury prize from the Prix Européen d'Architecture Philippe Rotthier. TASIS Switzerland was named one of the nine most beautiful boarding schools in the world by AD Magazine in March 2024. For ten years he also designed a series of new buildings for TASIS England in Surrey.   David Mayernik studied fresco painting with the renowned restorer Leonetto Tintori, and he has painted frescoes for the American Academy in Rome, churches in the Mugello and Ticino, and various buildings on the TASIS campus in Switzerland. He designed stage sets for the Haymarket Opera company of Chicago for four seasons between 2012 and 2014. He won the competition to paint the Palio for his adopted home of Lucca in 2013. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, London, Innsbruck, Rome, and Padova and featured in various magazines, including American Artist and Fine Art Connoisseur.   David Mayernik is Professor Emeritus with the University of Notre Dame, where for twenty years he taught in the School of Architecture. He is the author of two books, The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture (Routledge, UK) and Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy, (Basic Books), and numerous essays and book chapters, including “The Baroque City” for the Oxford Handbook of the Baroque. In 2016 he created the online course The Meaning of Rome for Notre Dame, hosted on the edX platform, which had an audience of six thousand followers. Ways to connect with David:   Website: www.davidmayernik.com Instagram: davidmayernik LinkedIn: davidmayernik EdX: The Meaning of Rome https://www.edx.org/learn/humanities/university-of-notre-dame-the-meaning-of-rome-the-renaissance-and-baroque-city     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:17 Well, hi and welcome once again. Wherever you happen to be, to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to chat with David Mayernik, unless you're in Europe, and then it's David Mayernik, but either way, we're glad to have him. He is an architect. He is an award winning architect. He's an author. He's done a number of things in his life, and we're going to talk about all of those, and it's kind of more fun to let him be the one to talk more about it, and then I can just pick up and ask questions as we go, and that's what we'll do. But we're really glad that he's here. So David, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   David Mayernik ** 01:57 Oh, thanks so much. Michael, thanks for the invitation. I'm looking forward to it.   Michael Hingson ** 02:02 Well, I know we've been working on getting this set up, and David actually happens to be in Italy today, as opposed to being in the US. He was a professor at Notre Dame for 20 years, but he has spent a lot of time in Europe and elsewhere, and I'm sure he's going to talk about that. But why don't we start, as I mentioned earlier, as I love to do, tell us kind of about the early David growing up.   David Mayernik ** 02:25 Well, so my both of my parents passed away several years ago, and when I was at my mom's funeral, one of our next door neighbors was telling my wife what I was like when I was a kid, and she said he was very quiet and very intense. And I suppose that's how I was perceived. I'm not sure I perceived myself that way I did. The thing about me is I've always drawn my mom. I mean, lots of kids draw, but I drew like credibly, well, when I was, you know, two and three years old. And of course, my mother saved everything. But the best thing about it was that I always had paper and pencil available. You know, we were terribly well off. We weren't poor, but we weren't, you know, well to do, but I never lacked for paper and pencils, and that just allowed me to just draw as much as I possibly could.   Michael Hingson ** 03:16 And so I guess the other question is, of course, do you still have all those old drawings since your mom kept   David Mayernik ** 03:23 them? Well, you know? Yeah, actually, after she passed, I did get her, Well, her collection of them. I don't know that all of them. My father had a penchant for throwing things away, unfortunately. So some of the archive is no longer with us, but no but enough of it. Just odds and bits from different areas of my life. And the thing is, you know, I was encouraged enough. I mean, all kids get encouraged. I think when they're young, everything they do is fabulous, but I had enough encouragement from people who seem to take it seriously that I thought maybe I had something and and it was the kind of thing that allowed me to have enough confidence in myself that I actually enjoyed doing it and and mostly, my parents were just impressed. You know, it just was impressive to them. And so I just happily went along my own way. The thing about it was that I really wanted to find my own path as somebody who drew and had a chance in high school for a scholarship to a local art school. I won a competition for a local art school scholarship, and I went for a couple of lessons, and I thought, you know, they're just teaching me to draw like them. I want to draw like me. So for better or worse, I'm one of those autodidacts who tries to find my own way, and, you know, it has its ups and downs. I mean, the downside of it is it's a slower learning process. Is a lot more trial and error. But the upside of it is, is that it's your own. I mean, essentially, I had enough of an ego that, you know, I really wanted to do. Things my way.   Michael Hingson ** 05:02 Well, you illustrate something that I've believed and articulate now I didn't used to, but I do now a lot more, which is I'm my own best teacher. And the reality is that you you learn by doing, and people can can give you information. And, yeah, you're right. Probably they wanted you to mostly just draw like them. But the bottom line is, you already knew from years of drawing as a child, you wanted to perhaps go a slightly different way, and you worked at it, and it may have taken longer, but look at what you learned.   David Mayernik ** 05:37 Yeah, I think it's, I mean, for me, it's, it's important that whatever you do, you do because you feel like you're being true to yourself somehow. I mean, I think that at least that's always been important to me, is that I don't, I don't like doing things for the sake of doing them. I like doing them because I think they matter. And I like, you know, I think essentially pursuing my own way of doing it meant that it always was, I mean, beyond just personal, it was something I was really committed to. And you know, the thing about it, eventually, for my parents was they thought it was fabulous, you know, loved great that you draw, but surely you don't intend to be an artist, because, you know, you want to have a job and make a living. And so I eventually realized that in high school, that while they, well, they probably would have supported anything I did that, you know, I was being nudged towards something a little bit more practical, which I think happens to a lot of kids who choose architecture like I did. It's a way, it's a practical way of being an artist and and that's we could talk about that. But I think that's not always true.   Michael Hingson ** 06:41 Bill, go ahead, talk about that. Well, I think that the   David Mayernik ** 06:44 thing about architecture is that it's become, well, one it became a profession in America, really, in the 20th century. I mean, it's in the sense that there was a licensing exam and all the requirements of what we think of as, you know, a professional service that, you know, like being a lawyer or a doctor, that architecture was sort of professionalized in the 20th century, at least in the United States. And, and it's a business, you know, ostensibly, I mean, you're, you know, you're doing what you do for a fee. And, and so architecture tries to balance the art part of it, or the creative side, the professional side of it, and the business side. And usually it's some rather imperfect version of all of those things. And the hard part, I think the hardest part to keep alive is the art part, because the business stuff and the professional stuff can really kind of take over. And that's been my trial. Challenge is to try to have it all three ways, essentially.   Michael Hingson ** 07:39 Do you think that Frank Lloyd Wright had a lot to do with bringing architecture more to the forefront of mindsets, mindsets, and also, of course, from an art standpoint, clearly, he had his own way of doing things.   David Mayernik ** 07:54 Yeah, absolutely he comes from, I mean, I wouldn't call it a rebellious tradition, but there was a streak of chafing at East Coast European classicism that happened in Chicago. Louis Sullivan, you know, is mostly responsible for that. And I but, but Right, had this, you know, kind of heroic sense of himself and and I think that his ability to draw, which was phenomenal. His sense that he wanted to do something different, and his sense that he wanted to do something American, made him a kind of a hero. Eventually, I think it coincided with America's growing sense of itself. And so for me, like lot of kids in America, my from my day, if you told somebody in high school you wanted to be an architect, they would give you a book on Frank Lloyd Wright. I mean, that's just, you know, part of the package.   Michael Hingson ** 08:47 Yeah, of course, there are others as well, but still, he brought a lot into it. And of course there, there are now more architects that we hear about and designers and so on the people what, I m Pei, who designed the world, original World Trade Center and other things like that. Clearly, there are a number of people who have made major impacts on the way we design and think of Building and Construction today,   David Mayernik ** 09:17 you know, I mean America's, you know, be kind of, it really was a leader in the development of architecture in the 20th century. I mean, in the 19th century was very much, you know, following what was happening in Europe. But essentially, by the 20th century, the America had a sense of itself that didn't always mean that it rejected the European tradition. Sometimes it tried to do it, just bigger and better, but, but it also felt like it had its, you know, almost a responsibility to find its own way, like me and, you know, come up with an American kind of architecture and and so it's always been in a kind of dialog with architecture from around the world. I mean, especially in Europe, at Frank Lloyd Wright was heavily influenced by Japanese architecture and. And so we've always seen ourselves, I think, in relationship to the world. And it's just the question of whether we were master or pupil to a certain extent,   Michael Hingson ** 10:07 and in reality, probably a little bit of both.   David Mayernik ** 10:12 Yeah, and we are, and I think, you know, acknowledging who we are, the fact that we didn't just, you know, spring from the earth in the United States, where we're all, I mean, essentially all immigrants, mostly, and essentially we, you know, essentially bring, we have baggage, essentially, as a culture, from lots of other places. And that's actually an advantage. I mean, I think it's actually what makes us a rich culture, is the diversity. I mean, even me, my father's family was Slovak, my mother's family Italian. And, you know from when I tell you know Europeans that they think that's just quintessentially American. That's what makes you an American, is that you're not a purebred of some kind.   Michael Hingson ** 10:49 Yeah, yeah. Pure purebred American is, is really sort of nebulous and and not necessarily overly accurate, because you are probably immigrants or part other kinds of races or nationalities as well. And that's, that's okay.   David Mayernik ** 11:08 It's, it's rich, you know, I think it's, it's a richer. It's the extent to which you want to engage with it. And the interesting thing about my parents was that they were both children of first generation immigrants. My mom's parents had been older Italian, and they were already married, and when they came to the States, my father's parents were younger and Slovak, and they met in the United States. And my father really wasn't that interested in his Slovak heritage. I mean, just, you know, he could speak some of the language, you know, really feel like it was something he wanted to hold on to or pass along, was my mom was, I mean, she loved her parents. She, you know, spoke with him in Italian, or actually not even Italian, the dialect from where her parents came from, which is north of Venice. And so she, I think she kind of, whether consciously or unconsciously, passed that on to me, that sense that I wanted to be. I was interested in where I came from, where the origins of my where my roots were, and it's something that had an appeal for me that wasn't just it wasn't front brain, it was really kind of built into who I was, which is why, you know, one of the reasons I chose to go to Notre Dame to study where I also wound up teaching like, welcome back Carter, is that I we had a Rome program, and so I've been teaching in the Rome program for our school, but we, I was there 44 years ago as a student.   Michael Hingson ** 12:28 Yeah. So quite a while, needless to say. And you know, I think, well, my grandmother on my mother's side was Polish, but I I never did get much in the way of information about the culture and so on from her and and my mom never really dealt with it much, because she was totally from The Bronx in New York, and was always just American, so I never really got a lot of that. But very frankly, in talking to so many people on this podcast over almost the last four years, talking to a number of people whose parents and grandparents all came to this country and how that affected them. It makes me really appreciate the kind of people who we all are, and we all are, are a conglomerate of so many different cultures, and that's okay, yeah? I mean,   David Mayernik ** 13:31 I think it's more than okay, and I think we need to just be honest about it, yeah. And, you know, kind of celebrate it, because the Italians brought with them, you know, tremendous skills. For example, a lot of my grandfather was a stone mason. You know, during the Depression, he worked, you know, the for the WPA essentially sponsored a whole series of public works projects in the parks in the town I grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. And Allentown has a fabulous park system. And my grandfather built a lot of stone walls in the parks in the 1930s and, you know, all these cultures that came to the states often brought, you know, specialized skills. You know, from where they they came from, and, and they enriched the American, you know, skill set, essentially, and, and that's, you know, again, that's we are, who we are because of that, you know, I celebrated I, you know, I'm especially connected to my Italian heritage. I feel like, in part because my grandfather, the stone mason, was a bit of jack of all trades. He could paint and draw. And my mom, you know, wrote poetry and painted. And even though she mostly, you know, in my life, was a was a housewife, but before she met my father, and they got married relatively late for their day, she had a professional life in World War Two, my mom actually went to Penn State for a couple of years in the start of at the start of the war, and then parents wanted her to come home, and so she did two years of engineering. Penn State. When she came back to Allentown, she actually got a job at the local airplane manufacturing plant that was making fighter planes for the United States called company called volte, and she did drafting for them. And then after World War Two, she got a job for the local power company drafting modern electrical kitchens and and so I've inherited all my mom's drafting equipment. And, you know, she's, she's very much a kind of a child of the culture that she came from, and in the sense that it was a, you know, artistic culture, a creative culture. And, you know, I definitely happy and proud of   Michael Hingson ** 15:37 that. You know, one of the things that impresses me, and I think about a lot in talking to so many people whose parents and grandparents immigrated to this country and so on, is not just the skill sets that they brought, but the work ethic that they had, that they imparted to people. And I think people who have had a number of generations here have not always kept that, and I think they've lost something very valuable, because that work ethic is what made those people who they were   David Mayernik ** 16:08 absolutely I mean, my Yeah, I mean my father. I mean absolutely true is, I mean tireless worker, capable of tremendous self sacrifice and and, you know, and that whole generation, I mean, he fought in World War Two. He actually joined, joined the Navy underage. He lied about his age to get in the Navy and that. But they were capable of self, tremendous self sacrifice and tremendous effort. And, you know, I think, you know, we're always, you know, these days, we always talk about work life balance. And I have to say, being an architect, most architects don't have a great work life balance. Mostly it's, it's a lot of work and a little bit of life. And that's, I don't, you know. I think not everybody survives that. Not every architects marriage survives that mine has. But I think it's, you know, that the idea that you're, you're sort of defined by what you do. I think there's a lot of talk these days about that's not a good thing. I I'm sort of okay with that. I'm sort of okay with being defined by what I do.   Michael Hingson ** 17:13 Yeah, and, and that that's, that's okay, especially if you're okay with it. That's good. Well, you So you went to Notre Dame, and obviously dealt with architecture. There some,   David Mayernik ** 17:28 yeah. I mean, the thing, the great thing about Notre Dame is to have the Rome program, and that was the idea of actually a Sicilian immigrant to the States in the early 20th century who became a professor at Notre Dame. And he had, he won the Paris prize. A guy named Frank Montana who won the Paris prize in the 1930s went to Harvard and was a professor at Notre Dame. And he had the good idea that, you know, maybe sending kids to five years of architecture education in Indiana, maybe wasn't the best, well rounded education possible, and maybe they should get out of South Bend for a year, and he, on his own initiative, without even support from the university, started a Rome program, and then said to the university, hey, we have a Rome program now. And so that was, that was his instinct to do that. And while I got, I think, a great education there, especially after Rome, the professor, one professor I had after Rome, was exceptional for me. But you know, Rome was just the opportunity to see great architecture. I mean, I had seen some. I mean, I, you know, my parents would go to Philadelphia, New York and, you know, we I saw some things. But, you know, I wasn't really bowled over by architecture until I went to Rome. And just the experience of that really changed my life, and it gave me a direction,   Michael Hingson ** 18:41 essentially. So the Rome program would send you to Rome for a year.   David Mayernik ** 18:46 Yeah, which is unusual too, because a lot of overseas programs do a semester. We were unusual in that the third year out of a five year undergraduate degree in architecture, the whole year is spent in Rome. And you know, when you're 20 ish, you know, 20 I turned 21 when I was over there. It's a real transition time in your life. I mean, it's, it was really transformative. And for all of us, small of my classmates, I mean, we're all kind of grew up. We all became a bit, you know, European. We stopped going to football games when we went back on campus, because it wasn't cool anymore, but, but we, we definitely were transformed by it personally, but, it really opened our eyes to what architecture was capable of, and that once you've, once you've kind of seen that, you know, once you've been to the top of the mountain, kind of thing, it can really get under your skin. And, you know, kind of sponsor whatever you do for the rest of your life. At least for me, it   Michael Hingson ** 19:35 did, yeah, yeah. So what did you do after you graduated?   David Mayernik ** 19:40 Well, I graduated, and I think also a lot of our students lately have had a pretty reasonably good economy over the last couple of decades, that where it's been pretty easy for our students to get a job. I graduated in a recession. I pounded the pavements a lot. I went, you know, staying with my parents and. Allentown, went back and forth to New York, knocking on doors. There was actually a woman who worked at the unemployment agency in New York who specialized in architects, and she would arrange interviews with firms. And, you know, I just got something for the summer, essentially, and then finally, got a job in the in the fall for somebody I wanted to work with in Philadelphia and and that guy left that firm after about three months because he won a competition. He didn't take me with him, and I was in a firm that really didn't want to be with. I wanted to be with him, not with the firm. And so I then I picked up stakes and moved to Chicago and worked for an architect who'd been a visiting professor at Notre Dame eventually became dean at Yale Tom Beebe, and it was a great learning experience, but it was also a lot of hours at low pay. You know, I don't think, I don't think my students, I can't even tell my students what I used to make an hour as a young architect. I don't think they would understand, yeah, I mean, I really don't, but it was, it was a it was the sense that you were, that your early years was a kind of, I mean an apprenticeship. I mean almost an unpaid apprenticeship at some level. I mean, I needed to make enough money to pay the rent and eat, but that was about it. And and so I did that, but I bounced around a lot, you know, and a lot of kids, I think a lot of our students, when they graduate, they think that getting a job is like a marriage, like they're going to be in it forever. And, you know, I, for better or worse, I moved around a lot. I mean, I moved every time I hit what I felt was like a point of diminishing returns. When I felt like I was putting more in and getting less out, I thought it was time to go and try something else. And I don't know that's always good advice. I mean, it can make you look flighty or unstable, but I kind of always followed my my instinct on that.   Michael Hingson ** 21:57 I don't remember how old I was. You're talking about wages. But I remember it was a Sunday, and my parents were reading the newspaper, and they got into a discussion just about the fact that the minimum wage had just been changed to be $1.50 an hour. I had no concept of all of that. But of course, now looking back on it, $1.50 an hour, and looking at it now, it's pretty amazing. And in a sense, $1.50 an hour, and now we're talking about $15 and $16 an hour, and I had to be, I'm sure, under 10. So it was sometime between 1958 and 1960 or so, or maybe 61 I don't remember exactly when, but in a sense, looking at it now, I'm not sure that the minimum wage has gone up all that much. Yes, 10 times what it was. But so many other things are a whole lot more than 10 times what they were back then,   David Mayernik ** 23:01 absolutely, yeah. I mean, I mean, in some ways also, my father was a, my father was a factory worker. I mean, he tried to have lots of other businesses of his own. He, you're, you're obviously a great salesman. And the one skill my father didn't have is he could, he could, like, for example, he had a home building business. He could build a great house. He just couldn't sell it. And so, you know, I think he was a factory worker, but he was able to send my sister and I to private college simultaneously on a factory worker salary, you know, with, with, I mean, I had some student loan debt, but not a lot. And that's, that's not possible today.   Michael Hingson ** 23:42 No, he saved and put money aside so that you could do that, yeah, and,   David Mayernik ** 23:47 and he made enough. I mean, essentially, the cost of college was not that much. And he was, you know, right, yeah. And he had a union job. It was, you know, reasonably well paid. I mean, we lived in a, you know, a nice middle class neighborhood, and, you know, we, we had a nice life growing up, and he was able to again, send us to college. And I that's just not possible for without tremendous amount of debt. It's not possible today. So the whole scale of our economy shifted tremendously. What I was making when I was a young architect. I mean, it was not a lot then, but I survived. Fact, actually saved money in Chicago for a two month summer in Europe after that. So, you know, essentially, the cost of living was, it didn't take a lot to cover your your expenses, right? The advantage of that for me was that it allowed me time when I had free time when I after that experience, and I traveled to Europe, I came back and I worked in Philadelphia for the same guy who had left the old firm in Philadelphia and went off on his own, started his own business. I worked for him for about nine months, but I had time in the evenings, because I didn't have to work 80 hours a week to do other things. I taught myself how to paint. And do things that I was interested in, and I could experiment and try things and and, you know, because surviving wasn't all that hard. I mean, it was easy to pay your bills and, and I think that's one of the things that's, I think, become more onerous, is that, I think for a lot of young people just kind of dealing with both college debt and then, you know, essentially the cost of living. They don't have a lot of time or energy to do anything else. And you know, for me, that was, I had the luxury of having time and energy to invest in my own growth, let's say as a more career, as a creative person. And you know, I also, I also tell students that, you know, there are a lot of hours in the day, you know, and whatever you're doing in an office. There are a lot of hours after that, you could be doing something else, and that I used every one of those hours as best I could.   Michael Hingson ** 25:50 Yeah. Well, you know, we're all born with challenges in life. What kind of challenges, real challenges did you have growing up as you look back on it?   David Mayernik ** 26:01 Yeah, my, I mean, my, I mean, there was some, there was some, a few rocky times when my father was trying to have his own business. And, you know, I'm not saying we grew up. We didn't struggle, but it wasn't, you know, always smooth sailing. But I think one of the things I learned about being an architect, which I didn't realize, and only kind of has been brought home to me later. Right now, I have somebody who's told me not that long ago, you know? You know, the problem is, architecture is a gentleman's profession. You know that IT architecture, historically was practiced by people from a social class, who knew, essentially, they grew up with the people who would become their clients, right? And so the way a lot of architects built their practice was essentially on, you know, family connections and personal connections, college connections. And I didn't have that advantage. So, you know, I've, I've essentially had to define myself or establish myself based on what I'm capable of doing. And you know, it's not always a level playing field. The great breakthrough for me, in a lot of ways, was that one of the one of my classmates and I entered a big international competition when we were essentially 25 years old. I think we entered. I turned 26 and it was an open competition. So, you know, no professional requirements. You know, virtually no entry fee to redesign the state capitol grounds of Minnesota, and it was international, and we, and we actually were selected as one of the top five teams that were allowed to proceed onto the second phase, and at which point we we weren't licensed architects. We didn't have a lot of professional sense or business sense, so we had to associate with a local firm in Minnesota and and we competed for the final phase. We did most of the work. The firm supported us, but they gave us basically professional credibility and and we won. We were the architects of the state capitol grounds in Minnesota, 26 years old, and that's because the that system of competition was basically a level playing field. It was, you know, ostensibly anonymous, at least the first phase, and it was just basically who had the best design. And you know, a lot of the way architecture gets architects get chosen. The way architecture gets distributed is connections, reputation, things like that, but, but you know, when you find those avenues where it's kind of a level playing field and you get to show your stuff. It doesn't matter where you grew up or who you are, it just matters how good you are, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 28:47 well, and do you think it's still that way today?   David Mayernik ** 28:51 There are a lot fewer open professional competitions. They're just a lot fewer of them. It was the and, you know, maybe they learned a lesson. I mean, maybe people like me shouldn't have been winning competitions. I mean, at some level, we were out of our league. I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say, from a design point of view. I mean, we were very capable of doing what the project involved, but we were not ready for the hardball of collaborating with a big firm and and the and the politics of what we were doing and the business side of it, we got kind of crushed, and, and, and eventually they never had the money to build the project, so the project just kind of evaporated. And the guy I used to work with in Philadelphia told me, after I won the competition, he said, you know, because he won a competition. He said, You know, the second project is the hardest one to get, you know, because you might get lucky one time and you win a competition, the question is, how do you build practice out of that?   Michael Hingson ** 29:52 Yeah, and it's a good point, yeah, yeah.   David Mayernik ** 29:55 I mean, developing some kind of continuity is hard. I mean, I. Have a longer, more discontinuous practice after that, but it's that's the hard part.   Michael Hingson ** 30:07 Well, you know, I mentioned challenges before, and we all, we all face challenges and so on. How do we overcome the challenges, our inherited challenges, or the perceived challenges that we have? How do we overcome those and work to move forward, to be our best? Because that's clearly kind of what you're talking about here.   David Mayernik ** 30:26 Yeah, well, the true I mean, so the challenges that we're born with, and I think there are also some challenges that, you know, we impose on ourselves, right? I mean, in this, in the best sense, I mean the ways that we challenge ourselves. And for me, I'm a bit of an idealist, and you know, the world doesn't look kindly on idealist. If you know, from a business, professional point of view, idealism is often, I'm not saying it's frowned upon, but it's hardly encouraged and rewarded and but I think that for me, I've learned over time that it's you really just beating your head against the wall is not the best. A little bit of navigating your way around problems rather than trying to run through them or knock them over is a smarter strategy. And so you have to be a little nimble. You have to be a little creative about how you find work and essentially, how you keep yourself afloat and and if you're if you're open to possibilities, and if you take some risks, you can, you can actually navigate yourself through a series of obstacles and actually have a rich, interesting life, but it may not follow the path that you thought you were starting out on at the beginning. And that's the, I think that's the skill that not everybody has.   Michael Hingson ** 31:43 The other part about that, though, is that all too often, we don't really give thought to what we're going to do, or we we maybe even get nudges about what we ought to do, but we discount them because we think, Oh, that's just not the way to do it. Rather than stepping back and really analyzing what we're seeing, what we're hearing. And I, for 1am, a firm believer in the fact that our inner self, our inner voice, will guide us if we give it the opportunity to do that.   David Mayernik ** 32:15 You know, I absolutely agree. I think a lot of people, you know, I was, I for, I have, for better or worse, I've always had a good sense of what I wanted to do with my life, even if architecture was a you know, conscious way to do something that was not exactly maybe what I dreamed of doing, it was a, you know, as a more rational choice. But, but I've, but I've basically followed my heart, more or less, and I've done the things that I always believed in it was true too. And when I meet people, especially when I have students who don't really know what they love, or, you know, really can't tell you what they really are passionate about, but my sense of it is, this is just my I might be completely wrong, but my sense of it is, they either can't admit it to themselves, or they can't admit it to somebody else that they that, either, in the first case, they're not prepared to listen to themselves and actually really deep, dig deep and think about what really matters to them, or if they do know what that is, they're embarrassed to admit it, or they're embarrassed to tell somebody else. I think most of us have some drive, or some internal, you know, impetus towards something and, and you're right. I mean, learning to listen to that is, is a, I mean, it's rewarding. I mean, essentially, you become yourself. You become more, or the best possible self you can be, I guess.   Michael Hingson ** 33:42 Yeah, I agree. And I guess that that kind of answers the question I was was thinking of, and that is, basically, as you're doing things in life, should you follow your dreams?   David Mayernik ** 33:53 You know, there's a lot, a lot of people are writing these days, if you read, if you're just, you know, on the, on the internet, reading the, you know, advice that you get on, you know, the new services, from the BBC to, you know, any other form of information that's out there, there's a lot of back and forth by between the follow your dreams camp and the don't follow your dreams camp. And the argument of the don't follow your dreams camp seems to be that it's going to be hard and you'll be frustrated, and you know, and that's true, but it doesn't mean you're going to fail, and I don't think anybody should expect life to be easy. So I think if you understand going in, and maybe that's part of my Eastern European heritage that you basically expect life to be hard, not, not that it has to be unpleasant, but you know it's going to be a struggle, but, but if you are true to yourself or follow your dreams, you're probably not going to wake up in the middle of your life with a crisis. You know, because I think a lot of times when you suppress your dreams, they. Stay suppressed forever, and the frustrations come out later, and it's better to just take them on board and try to again, navigate your way through life with those aspirations that you have, that you know are really they're built in like you were saying. They're kind of hardwired to be that person, and it's best to listen to that person.   Michael Hingson ** 35:20 There's nothing wrong with having real convictions, and I think it's important to to step back and make sure that you're really hearing what your convictions are and feeling what your convictions are. But that is what people should do, because otherwise, you're just not going to be happy.   David Mayernik ** 35:36 You're not and you're you're at one level, allowing yourself to manipulate yourself. I mean, essentially, you're, you know, kind of essentially deterring yourself from being who you are. You're probably also susceptible to other people doing that to you, that if you don't have enough sense of yourself, a lot of other people can manipulate you, push you around. And, you know, the thing about having a good sense of yourself is you also know how to stand up for yourself, or at least you know that you're a self that's worth standing up for. And that's you know. That's that, that thing that you know the kids learn in the school yard when you confront the bully, you know you have to, you know, the parents always tell you, you know, stand up to the bully. And at some level, life is going to bully you unless you really are prepared to stand up for something.   Michael Hingson ** 36:25 Yeah, and there's so many examples of that I know as a as a blind person, I've been involved in taking on some pretty major tasks in life. For example, it used to be that anyone with a so called Disability couldn't buy life insurance, and eventually, we took on the insurance industry and won to get the laws passed in every state that now mandate that you can't discriminate against people with disabilities in providing life insurance unless you really have evidence To prove that it's appropriate to do that, and since the laws were passed, there hasn't been any evidence. And the reason is, of course, there never has been evidence, and insurance companies kept claiming they had it, but then when they were challenged to produce it, they couldn't. But the reality is that you can take on major tasks and major challenges and win as long as you really understand that that is what your life is steering you to do,   David Mayernik ** 37:27 yeah, like you said, and also too, having a sense of your your self worth beyond whatever that disability is, that you know what you're capable of, apart from that, you know that's all about what you can't do, but all the things that you can do are the things that should allow you to do anything. And, yeah, I think we're, I think it's a lot of times people will try to define you by what you can't do, you   Michael Hingson ** 37:51 know? And the reality is that those are traditionally misconceptions and inaccurate anyway, as I point out to people, disability does not mean a lack of ability. Although a lot of people say, Well, of course it, it is because it starts with dis. And my response is, what do you then? How do you deal with the words disciple, discern and discrete? For example, you know the fact of the matter is, we all have a disability. Most of you are light dependent. You don't do well with out light in your life, and that's okay. We love you anyway, even though you you have to have light but. But the reality is, in a sense, that's as much a disability is not being light dependent or being light independent. The difference is that light on demand has caused so much focus that it's real easy to get, but it doesn't change the fact that your disability is covered up, but it's still there.   David Mayernik ** 38:47 No, it's true. I mean, I think actually, yeah, knowing. I mean, you're, we're talking about knowing who you are, and, you know, listening to your inner voice and even listening to your aspirations. But also, I mean being pretty honest about where your liabilities are, like what the things are that you struggle with and just recognizing them, and not not to dwell on them, but to just recognize how they may be getting in the way and how you can work around them. You know, one of the things I tell students is that it's really important to be self critical, but, but it's, it's not good to be self deprecating, you know. And I think being self critical if you're going to be a self taught person like I am, in a lot of ways, you you have to be aware of where you're not getting it right. Because I think the problem is sometimes you can satisfy yourself too easily. You're too happy with your own progress. You know, the advantage of having somebody outside teaching you is they're going to tell you when you're doing it wrong, and most people are kind of loath do that for themselves, but, but the other end of that is the people who are so self deprecating, constantly putting themselves down, that they never are able to move beyond it, because they're only aware of what they can't do. And you know, I think balancing self criticism with a sense of your self worth is, you know, one of the great balancing acts of life. You.   Michael Hingson ** 40:00 Well, that's why I've adopted the concept of I'm my own best teacher, because rather than being critical and approaching anything in a negative way, if I realize that I'm going to be my own best teacher, and people will tell me things, I can look at them, and I should look at them, analyze them, step back, internalize them or not, but use that information to grow, then that's what I really should do, and I would much prefer the positive approach of I'm my own best teacher over anything else.   David Mayernik ** 40:31 Yeah, well, I mean, the last kind of teachers, and I, you know, a lot of my students have thought of me as a critical teacher. One of the things I think my students have misunderstood about that is, it's not that I have a low opinion of them. It's actually that I have such a high opinion that I always think they're capable of doing better. Yeah, I think one of the problems in our educational system now is that it's so it's so ratifying and validating. There's so we're so low to criticize and so and the students are so fragile with criticism that they they don't take the criticism well, yeah, we don't give it and, and you without some degree of what you're not quite getting right, you really don't know what you're capable of, right? And, and I think you know. But being but again, being critical is not that's not where you start. I think you start from the aspiration and the hope and the, you know, the actually, the joy of doing something. And then, you know, you take a step back and maybe take a little you know, artists historically had various techniques for judging their own work. Titian used to take one of his paintings and turn it away, turn it facing the wall so that he couldn't see it, and he would come back to it a month later. And, you know, because when he first painted, he thought it was the greatest thing ever painted, he would come back to it a month later and think, you know, I could have done some of those parts better, and you would work on it and fix it. And so, you know, the self criticism comes from this capacity to distance yourself from yourself, look at yourself almost as as hard as it is from the outside, yeah, try to see yourself as other people see you. Because I think in your own mind, you can kind of become completely self referential. And you know, that's that. These are all life skills. You know, I had to say this to somebody recently, but, you know, I think the thing you should get out of your education is learning how to learn and like you're talking about, essentially, how do you approach something new or challenging or different? Is has to do with essentially, how do you how do you know? Do you know how to grow and learn on your own?   Michael Hingson ** 42:44 Yeah, exactly, well, being an architect and so on. How did you end up going off and becoming a professor and and teaching? Yeah, a   David Mayernik ** 42:52 lot of architects do it. I have to say. I mean, there's always a lot of the people who are the kind of heroes when I was a student, were practicing architects who also taught and and they had a kind of, let's say, intellectual approach to what they did. They were conceptual. It wasn't just the mundane aspects of getting a building built, but they had some sense of where they fit, with respect to the culture, with respect to history and issues outside of architecture, the extent to which they were tied into other aspects of culture. And so I always had the idea that, you know, to be a full, you know, a fully, you know, engaged architect. You should have an academic, intellectual side to your life. And teaching would be an opportunity to do that. The only thing is, I didn't feel like I knew enough until I was older, in my 40s, to feel like I actually knew enough about what I was doing to be able to teach somebody else. A lot of architects get into teaching early, I think, before they're actually fully formed to have their own identities. And I think it's been good for me that I waited a while until I had a sense of myself before I felt like I could teach somebody else. And so there was, there was that, I mean, the other side of it, and it's not to say that it was just a day job, but one of the things I decided from the point of your practice is a lot of architects have to do a lot of work that they're not proud of to keep the lights on and keep the business operating. And I have decided for myself, I only really want to do work that I'm proud of, and in order to do that, because clients that you can work for and be you know feel proud of, are rather rare, and so I balanced teaching and practice, because teaching allowed me to ostensibly, theoretically be involved with the life of the mind and only work for people and projects that interested me and that I thought could offer me the chance to do something good and interesting and important. And so one I had the sense that I had something to convey I learned. Enough that I felt like I could teach somebody else. But it was also, for me, an opportunity to have a kind of a balanced life in which practice was compensated. You know that a lot of practice, even interesting practice, has a banal, you know, mundane side. And I like being intellectually stimulated, so I wanted that. Not everybody wants   Michael Hingson ** 45:24 that. Yeah, so you think that the teaching brings you that, or it put you in a position where you needed to deal with that?   David Mayernik ** 45:32 You know, having just retired, I wish there had been more of that. I really had this romantic idea that academics, being involved in academics, would be an opportunity to live in a world of ideas. You know? I mean, because when I was a student, I have to say we, after we came back from Rome, I got at least half of my education for my classmates, because we were deeply engaged. We debated stuff. We, you know, we we challenged each other. We were competitive in a healthy way and and I remember academics my the best part of my academic formation is being immensely intellectually rich. In fact, I really missed it. For about the first five years I was out of college, I really missed the intellectual side of architecture, and I thought going back as a teacher, I would reconnect with that, and I realized not necessarily, there's a lot about academics that's just as mundane and bureaucratic as practice can be so if you really want to have a satisfying intellectual life, unfortunately, you can't look to any institution or other people for it. You got to find it on your own.   46:51 Paperwork, paperwork,   David Mayernik ** 46:55 committee meetings, just stuff. Yeah, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 47:00 yeah. Yeah, which never, which never. Well, I won't say they never help, but there's probably, there's probably some valuable stuff that you can get, even from writing and doing, doing paperwork, because it helps you learn to write. I suppose you can look at it that way.   David Mayernik ** 47:16 No, it's true. I mean, you're, you're definitely a glass half full guy. Michael, I appreciate that's good. No. I mean, I, obviously, I always try to make get the most out of whatever experience I have. But, I mean, in the sense that there wasn't as much intellectual discourse, yeah, you know, as my I would have liked, yeah, and I, you know, in the practice or in the more academic side of architecture. Several years ago, somebody said we were in a post critical phase like that. Ideas weren't really what was driving architecture. It was going to be driven by issues of sustainability, issues of social structure, you know, essentially how people live together, issues that have to do with things that weren't really about, let's call it design in the esthetic sense, and all that stuff is super important. And I'm super interested in, you know, the social impact of my architecture, the sustainable impact of it, but the the kind of intellectual society side of the design part of it, we're in a weird phase where it that's just not in my world, we just it's not talked about a lot. You know,   Michael Hingson ** 48:33 it's not what it what it used to be. Something tells me you may be retired, but you're not going to stop searching for intellectual and various kinds of stimulation to help keep your mind active.   David Mayernik ** 48:47 Oh, gosh, no, no. I mean, effectively. I mean, I just stopped one particular job. I describe it now as quitting with benefits. That's my idea of what I retired from. I retired from a particular position in a particular place, but, but I haven't stopped. I mean, I'm certainly going to keep working. I have a very interesting design project in Switzerland. I've been working on for almost 29 years, and it's got a number of years left in it. I paint, I write, I give lectures, I you know, and you obviously have a rich life. You know, not being at a job. Doesn't mean that the that your engagement with the world and with ideas goes away. I mean, unless you wanted to, my wife's my wife had three great uncles who were great jazz musicians. I mean, some quite well known jazz musicians. And one of them was asked, you know, was he ever going to retire? And he said, retire to what? Because, you know, he was a musician. I mean, you can't stop being a musician, you know, you know, if, some level, if you're really engaged with what you do, you You never stop, really,   Michael Hingson ** 49:51 if you enjoy it, why would you? No, I   David Mayernik ** 49:54 mean, the best thing is that your work is your fun. I mean, you know, talking about, we talked about it. I. You that You know you're kind of defined by your work, but if your work is really what you enjoy, I mean, actually it's fulfilling, rich, enriching, interesting, you don't want to stop doing that. I mean, essentially, you want to do it as long as you possibly can. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 50:13 and it's and it's really important to do that. And I think, in reality, when you retire from a job, you're not really retiring from a job. You're retiring, as you said, from one particular thing. But the job isn't a negative thing at all. It is what you like to do.   David Mayernik ** 50:31 Yeah. I mean, there's, yeah, there's the things that you do that. I mean, I guess the job is the, if you like, the thing that is the, you know, the institution or the entity that you know, pays your bills and that kind of stuff, but the career or the thing that you're invested in that had the way you define yourself is you never stop being that person, that person. And in some ways, you know, what I'm looking forward to is a richer opportunity to pursue my own avenue of inquiry, and, you know, do things on my own terms, without some of the obligations I had   Michael Hingson ** 51:03 as a teacher, and where's your wife and all that.   David Mayernik ** 51:06 So she's with me here in LUCA, and she's she's had a super interesting life, because she she she studied. We, when we were together in New York, she was getting a degree in art history, Medieval and Renaissance studies in art history at NYU, and then she decided she really wanted to be a chef, and she went to cooking school in New York and then worked in a variety of food businesses in New York, and then got into food writing and well, food styling for magazines, making food for photographs, and then eventually writing. And through a strange series of connections and experiences. She got an opportunity to cook at an Art Foundation in the south of France, and I was in New York, and I was freelancing. I was I'd quit a job I'd been at for five years, and I was freelancing around, doing some of my own stuff and working with other architects, and I had work I could take with me. And you know, it was there was there was, we didn't really have the internet so much, but we had FedEx. And I thought I could do drawings in the south of France. I could do them in Brooklyn. So, so I went to the south of France, and it just happens to be that my current client from Switzerland was there at that place at that time, scouting it out for some other purpose. And she said, I hear you're architect. I said, Yeah. And I said, Well, you know, she said, I like, you know, classical architecture, and I like, you know, traditional villages, and we have a campus, and we need a master plan architect. And I was doing a master plan back in Delaware at that time, and my wife's you know, career trajectory actually enabled me to meet a client who's basically given me an opportunity to build, you know, really interesting stuff, both in Switzerland and in England for the last, you know, again, almost 29 years. And so my wife's been a partner in this, and she's been, you know, because she's pursued her own parallel interest. But, but our interests overlap enough and we share enough that we our interests are kind of mutually reinforcing. It's, it's been like an ongoing conversation between us, which has been alive and rich and wonderful.   Michael Hingson ** 53:08 You know, with everything going on in architecture and in the world in general, we see more and more technology in various arenas and so on. How do you think that the whole concept of CAD has made a difference, or in any way affected architecture. And where do you think CAD systems really fit into all of that?   David Mayernik ** 53:33 Well, so I mean this, you know, CAD came along. I mean, it already was, even when I was early in my apprenticeship, yeah, I was in Chicago, and there was a big for som in Chicago, had one of the first, you know, big computers that was doing some drawing work for them. And one of my, a friend of mine, you know, went to spend some time and figure out what they were capable of. And, but, you know, never really came into my world until kind of the late night, mid, mid to late 90s and, and, and I kind of resisted it, because I, the reason I got into architecture is because I like to draw by hand, and CAD just seemed to be, you know, the last thing I'd want to do. But at the same time, you, some of you, can't avoid it. I mean, it has sort of taken over the profession that, essentially, you either have people doing it for you, or you have to do it yourself, and and so the interesting thing is, I guess that I, at some point with Switzerland, I had to, basically, I had people helping me and doing drawing for me, but I eventually taught myself. And I actually, I jumped over CAD and I went to a 3d software called ArchiCAD, which is a parametric design thing where you're essentially building a 3d model. Because I thought, Look, if I'm going to do drawing on the computer, I want the computer to do something more than just make lines, because I can make lines on my own. But so the computer now was able to help me build a 3d model understand buildings in space and construction. And so I've taught myself to be reasonably, you know, dangerous with ArchiCAD and but the. Same time, the creative side of it, I still, I still think, and a lot of people think, is still tied to the intuitive hand drawing aspect and and so a lot of schools that gave up on hand drawing have brought it back, at least in the early years of formation of architects only for the the conceptual side of architecture, the the part where you are doodling out your first ideas, because CAD drawing is essentially mechanical and methodical and sort of not really intuitive, whereas the intuitive marking of paper With a pencil is much more directly connected to the mind's capacity to kind of speculate and imagine and daydream a little bit, or wander a little bit your mind wanders, and it actually is time when some things can kind of emerge on the page that you didn't even intend. And so, you know, the other thing about the computer is now on my iPad, I can actually do hand drawing on my iPad, and that's allowed me to travel with it, show it to clients. And so I still obviously do a lot of drawing on paper. I paint by hand, obviously with real paints and real materials. But I also have found also I can do free hand drawing on my iPad. I think the real challenge now is artificial intelligence, which is not really about drawing, it's about somebody else or the machine doing the creative side of it. And that's the big existential crisis that I think the profession is facing right now.   Michael Hingson ** 56:36 Yeah, I think I agree with that. I've always understood that you could do free hand drawing with with CAD systems. And I know that when I couldn't find a job in the mid 1980s I formed a company, and we sold PC based CAD systems to architects and engineers. And you know, a number of them said, well, but when we do designs, we charge by the time that we put into drawing, and we can't do that with a CAD system, because it'll do it in a fraction of the time. And my response always was, you're looking at it all wrong. You don't change how much you charge a customer, but now you're not charging for your time, you're charging for your expertise, and you do the same thing. The architects who got that were pretty successful using CAD systems, and felt that it wasn't really stifling their creativity to use a CAD system to enhance and speed up what they did, because it also allowed them to find more jobs more quickly.   David Mayernik ** 57:35 Yeah, one of the things it did was actually allow smaller firms to compete with bigger firms, because you just didn't need as many bodies to produce a set of drawings to get a project built or to make a presentation. So I mean, it has at one level, and I think it still is a kind of a leveler of, in a way, the scale side of architecture, that a lot of small creative firms can actually compete for big projects and do them successfully. There's also, it's also facilitated collaboration, because of the ability to exchange files and have people in different offices, even around the world, working on the same drawing. So, you know, I'm working in Switzerland. You know, one of the reasons to be on CAD is that I'm, you know, sharing drawings with local architects there engineers, and that you know that that collaborative sharing process is definitely facilitated by the computer.   Michael Hingson ** 58:27 Yeah, information exchange is always valuable, especially if you have a number of people who are committed to the same thing. It really helps. Collaboration is always a good thing,   David Mayernik ** 58:39 yeah? I mean, I think a lot of, I mean, there's always the challenge between the ego side of architecture, you know, creative genius, genius, the Howard Roark Fountainhead, you know, romantic idea. And the reality is that it takes a lot of people to get a building built, and one person really can't do it by themselves. And So collaboration is kind of built into it at the same time, you know, for any kind of coherence, or some any kind of, let's say, anything, that brings a kind of an artistic integrity to a work of architecture, mostly, that's got to come from one person, or at least people with enough shared vision that that there's a kind of coherence to it, you know. And so there still is space for the individual creative person. It's just that it's inevitably a collaborative process to get, you know, it's the it's the 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Side architecture is very much that there's a lot of heavy lifting that goes into getting a set of drawings done to get

Bentornati su Snap!È venuto il momento di prendersi una pausa con un buon caffè col grandissimo Luca Manelli, esperto di Archicad e riferimento per tanti progettisti che vogliono lavorare meglio, in modo più organizzato e consapevole.Il focus della puntata verte sulla sua Guida sugli Standard di Studio, del concetto stesso di “standard” nel lavoro quotidiano in uno studio di progettazione, ma anche di produttività, del libro che ci ha ispirati e dei suoi prossimi progetti editoriali.

This podcast is produced in partnership with Graphisoft, editor of Archicad, the world's first BIM software.KOZ architectes was founded in 1999 by Christophe Ouhayoun and Nicolas Ziesel, both graduates of ENSA-Paris Belleville. With the construction of France's tallest 100%-wood building in Strasbourg, the co-coordination of Lot E of the Athletes' Village for the Paris 2024 Games, and the headquarters of the Créteil Education Authority, the agency is a particularly stimulating presence on the French landscape.In this issue of Com d'Archi, Nicolas Zeisel presents the agency's key points and talks in particular about the Strasbourg project, a performance in the French landscape. Image © Cécile SeptetSound engineering : Julien Rebours___If you like the podcast do not hesitate:. to subscribe so you don't miss the next episodes,. to leave us stars and a comment :-),. to follow us on Instagram @comdarchipodcast to find beautiful images, always chosen with care, so as to enrich your view on the subject.Nice week to all of you ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Bentornati su Snap!Insieme a Luca Manelli mi son seduto al tavolo virtuale di questo podcast per prendere un caffè insieme: come sempre denso di argomenti interessanti come in ogni chiacchierata informale tra amici!Non poteva mancare uno scambio di punti di vista sull'imminente WWDC 2025,ma soprattutto festeggiare insieme il nuovo traguardo raggiunto da Luca ed il suo canale YouTube, che insieme al suo blog ed al nuovo format Pane e BIM con Mario Napolitano dà vita a nuovi contenuti freschi per il nostro ambiente.E non è tutto: Luca ha scritto un articolo per Professione Architetto, ci racconta come è andata alla conferenza nazionale IBIMI, scrive perchè è importante per il mondo delle costruzioni il libro di Set Godin Questo è il marketing e della partenza dela nuova edizione del suo corso BIM specialist.Buon ascolto!—>

Bentornati su Snap!Siamo nuovamente seduti attorno ad un tavolo per un caffè con Luca Manelli per paralre di tanti argomenti che riguardano il mondo dell'architettura e del BIM!Partiamo subito forte con qualche pensiero su Archicad su iPad, ammesso e non concesso che possa arrivare per la piattaforma iPadOS; nel mentre Luca è vicinissimo al traguardo dei 1000 video pubblicati sul suo canale YouTube e rendiamo la palla al ballo per parlare dei momenti "Down" ed i momenti "Up" di un content creator.A proposito di content creator, questa settimana c'è un nuovo articolo di un "famoso" autore che ha iniziato a collaborare con Luca, che si va ad aggiungere agli altri articoli del suo blog, come quelli dedicati ai libri che ci danno lo spunto per parlare delle rispettive tecniche di lavoro digitale.Infine, se volete fare quattro chiacchiere con Luca di persona e partecipare al suo workshop che si terrà a Roma, correte ad iscrivervi all'8a conferenza iBIMi!Buon ascolto!—>

Bentornati su Snap!Noi sai cosa vuol dire “arrevotare”? Non ti preoccupare, ci pensa Mario Napolitano a spiegarti di cosa si tratta, termine che prende un gustosissimo significato se calato nel nostro mondo BIM.In questa puntata con Mario abbiamo affrontato temi di grande importanza ed attualità: l'inverno del BIM, lo sviluppo normativo, l'uso dell'AI nella professione, le certificazioni BIM e le classiche (vecchie) figure BIM.Senza dimenticare di parlare della continua evoluzione del lavoro di Mario, dell'onestà professionale BIM e dei suoi grandi obiettivi di quest'anno.Buon ascolto!—>

Prefabrication can get a bad wrap in the sustainable building world but when used in the right way, it can be a powerful tool for building sustainable and affordable homes. We recently sat down with prefabrication pioneers Chris Gilbert and Kaia McCarty Smith to discuss how it can support a better building future. Chris is the co-founder of Candour, a prefabrication company that aims to address the challenges faced by builders and architects. Unlike typical prefab companies, Candour doesn't focus on volumetric prefabs but rather on a panelised fabrication with a significant emphasis on software development. This means they aren't just building physical structures; they're also building digital solutions that help bridge the gap between architects and fabricators.Their unique software ties seamlessly into common architectural tools like Archicad, providing real-time pricing and fabrication limits. This ensures architects design structures within practical and budget-friendly bounds, ultimately reducing costs and improving efficiencies from the start.On the other hand, Kaia shared his experience using prefabs as a builder and the force behind Wilderness Building Co. He explained that prefabrication offers a streamlined, efficient, and precise way to construct, with benefits in controlling quality and reducing on-site errors. These advantages are crucial, especially when considering issues like labour costs and the need for quicker building timelines.As builders, we've always been aware of the resistance to change in our industry. Australians, by nature, are wary of deviating from traditional building norms. But is it time to embrace prefabrication fully? Chris believes that while prefab isn't the silver bullet, it's certainly part of the solution. Matt also brought up the rising costs of labour, and the difficulties that causes in the Australian market. Automating processes, as prefabrication allows, might be a great solution. However, it's also about ensuring buildings remain affordable and comfortable for everyone, which continues to be a complex balancing act.So, whether you're an architect, builder, or part of the wider construction community, it's time to consider prefabrication. It might not be the complete answer, but it could be a big step towards a sustainable future for construction. LINKS:Connect with Chris Gilbert: www.candour.ccConnect with Kaia McCarty Smith: www.wildernessbuilding.comConnect with us on Instagram: @themindfulbuilderpodConnect with Hamish:Instagram: @sanctumhomesWebsite: www.yoursanctum.com.au/Connect with Matt: Instagram: @carlandconstructionsWebsite: www.carlandconstructions.com/

Bentornati su Snap!Puntata dal numero tondo da festeggiare adeguatamente grazie al ritorno del grandissimo Luca Manelli ai microfoni di Snap!Gli argomenti trattati sono stati tantissimi, dando vita ad una puntata piena zeppa di spunti interessanti! Si parte dal traguardo dei 1000 video di Luca e dalla sua funzionalità preferita tra quelle introdotte in Archicad 28, passando dal nuovo corso del suo blog, che tratta nuovi temi dedicati al mondo delle costruzioni come le recensione dei libri, ed arrivando all'apice della puntata parlando di video.Oltre a conoscere cosa bolle in pentola nel canale Youtube di Luca, potrete conoscere i nostri punti di vista che il rilascio di Gemini 2.0 ha fatto nascere, sia da parte di chi crea contenuti che di chi ne usufruisce.Buon ascolto!—>

Hosting, producing and publishing Convo By Design has been an incredible journey, 12 years in now. At the beginning of the show, I wasn't really sure with whom I was speaking to. I set out to reach consumers interested in design, then after a year or so, I realized that it was designers and architects listening and interacting with me. I met so many creatives and that informed the shows development and the storylines. Then, something amazing happened… I heard from more design clients, for a few reasons. They were looking for a designer, architect, landscape designer, products for their own projects. Since 2020, there has been a transformational shift in what both the trade and consumer side are looking for from me, Convo By Design and the design industry. I believe we are entering a new phase in design. One with far more well educated clients and the trade is responding. Through these conversations, clients have a chance to get to know these creatives. Get a chance to vet them for their projects. And, designers can hear what other highly functional and successful creatives are doing to not just get more business but evolve this amazing industry. It is in that vein that I share my conversation with Tima Bell of the Bell Design Group. A firm with offices in Los Angeles, Colorado, Madrid and Argentina. A firm built with diversity and sustainability in mind, but when you hear how Bell puts these ideas into practice, I think you find it as fascinating as I do. Designer Resources Pacific Sales Kitchen and Home. Where excellence meets expertise. Monogram - It's the details that define Monogram ThermaSol - Redefining the modern shower experience. Without steam, it's just a bathroom. Design Hardware - A stunning and vast collection of jewelry for the home!  - Where service meets excellence TimberTech - Real wood beauty without the upkeep Tima shared details about his architecture firm, emphasizing its meritocratic and egalitarian nature, with decisions ultimately by him. Hehighlighted the benefits of a diverse workforce, including effective communication with clients from various backgrounds, and the use of Archicad, a BIM modeler popular in Europe. Tima also mentioned the company's support for staff with visas and the low turnover rate, attributing it to the strong friendships formed among diverse staff members. Tima and I, both native Angelenos, discussed the importance of embracing failure and trying new things in design and architecture. They acknowledged the issue of perfectionism in American, California, and Los Angeles exceptionalism. Thank you Tima for taking the time to share your thoughts. Thank you to my incredible partner sponsors, ThermaSol, TimberTech, Pacific Sales, Monogram and Design Hardware. Amazing companies and great friends to the trade so please give them an opportunity for your next project. And, thank you for listening, subscribing the show and sharing with your colleagues. If not already subscribing, please consider that so you receive every new episode automatically to your podcast feed. Until next week, thank you for sharing this time together, until the next episode, be well, stay focused and above the chaos. - CXD

Bentornati su Snap!Iniziamo questa ultima puntata della serie regolare di quest'anno ringraziando Michele Bondanelli per il suo feedback sulla scorsa puntata, a Mario Napolitano per aver trovato il tempo di prendere un caffè insieme e a tutte le persone che hanno fatto acquisti partendo dalla mia guida regali per architetti: un grazie di cuore a tutti!Dopo l'uscita di una nuova puntata di Escape con Michele Bondanelli dedicata alle pratiche edilizie, cerco di dar forma a qualche pensiero a riguardo di Autocad per iPad, del futuro iPad foldable e sui test di o1 descritti nella puntata precedente, prima di iniziare a prendermela (giustamente) con alcune noie alla mia caldaia.Scaldato l'ambiente senza bisogno di termosifoni, torno a più calmi ragionamenti su Piracy Shield che butta giù il sito della testata DDay, all'arrivo dell'interoperabilità tra Snaptrude ed Archicad e di un dell'esempio di uso dell'AI in uno studio di architettura.Auguro a tutti buone festività e buon ascolto!—>

Bentpornati ad Archicad Talks!Noi progettisti architettonici facciamo in fretta a posizionare i mobili nelle piante di progetto, un po' meno in fretta ci si mette a realizzarli, tramutando disegni tecnici in oggetti materiali.Ci vogliono passione e competenza, due caratteristiche che troviamo in quantità industriale in Studio Immagine Allestimenti ascoltando le parole di Paolo Bellisario: la carriera di Paolo è partito 20 anni fa che lo ha portato oggi alla sua azienda con 25 operai e 4500 metri quadrati di capannone in cui si utilizzano moderni macchinari come un pantografo a 5 assi e una foratrice verticale, lavorando con Clienti prestigiosi come Natuzzi, Audi ed Iveco.Archicad è lo strumento che permette a Paolo di realizzare mobili ed allestimenti, iniziandolo ad usare fin dagli esordi portandolo ad utilizzare il linguaggio GDL, Rhino ed a interfacciarlo con i macchinari di produzione. Paolo ci accompagna in un viaggio affascinante attraverso il suo mondo con estrema genuinità, intrisa di artigianalità, acume progettuale e l'occhio attento sulle tecnologie utilizzate.Buon ascolto! CAPITOLI[0.20] Studio Immagine Allestimenti di Paolo Bellisario[2.05] Gli inizi[4.55] Lavorazione, strutturazione e macchinari odierni[10.25] Suite a Riyad[12.45] Realizzazioni internazionali[14.35] Macchinati industria 5.0[21.05] L'interoperabilità con Archicad ed i macchinari[22.50] Montaggio con squadre locali[28.30] Il valore aggiunto di Archicad[34.10] Creazione di modelli parametrici personalizzati[39.25] Eccellenti particolari costruttivi invisibili[45.00] 3D, render, Rhino e figure BIM[48.10] Figura ponte all'opera[50.10] SalutiVideo corsi presenti della piattaforma Graphisoft LearnBlog di Graphisoft Italia

Bentornati ad Archicad Talks!La progettazione energetica è forse la parte più difficile del nostro lavoro: contenimento dei consumi, miglioramento della qualità di vita nell'edificio, utilizzo sapiente delle fonti rinnovabili ed impianti innovativi sono tutti ingredienti da amalgamare per ottenere un edifico funzionalmente ecologico ed energeticamente sostenibile.Una sintesi del lavoro di Noris Pegorario che utilizza Archicad come strumento per rendere coesi tutti questi ingredienti, sfornando edifici di classe Casaclima ed aderenti al protocollo Itaca: due nomi che sono certo siano ben conosciuti nell'ambiente del mondo delle costruzioni ecosostenibili e che sono garanzie di lavori progettati ed eseguiti a regola d'arte.Non ci si improvvisa in questo ambito ed il viaggio parte da lontano, quando la relazione ex L. 10 non era presa nemmeno in considerazione nella progettazione fino ad arrivare alle case Nzeb, passando da spaccati di vita professionali come il recente passato fatto di bonus energetici.Buon ascolto!CAPITOLI:[0.19] Noris Pegoraro[1.45] Formazione[3.50] Impegno nell'efficenza energetica e sostenibilità ambientale[11.00] Le case Nzeb[17.15] Agenzia Casaclima[24.40] Incontro con Archicad[30.30] Il ritorno dell'investimento[33.00] In team con Archicad[36.30] Precisione del risultato[37.25] Progettazione energetica con Archicad[38.55] Progettazione strutturale con Archicad[40.00] Esperienze con i modelli MEP e l'importanza della digitalizzazione[44.20] Abitazione a Perugia con certificazioni Casaclima ed Itaca[53.00] Archicad ed Edilclima[53.30] Il consiglio di Noris[56.45] SalutiVideo corsi presenti della piattaforma Graphisoft LearnBlog di Graphisoft Italia

Bentornati su Archicad Talks!Il progresso della professione in architettura non è semplice e spesso richiede sforzi personali, non solo nell'aggiornamento professionale, ma anche nel saper cogliere al meglio le opportunità che ci vengono offerte dal lavoro, nel costruire una squadra affiatata ed amalgamare il tutto con la tecnologia migliore.Un esempio di questo percorso è quello che possiamo cogliere dalle parole di Giorgio Schiavini che ci accompagna nel suo percorso, partendo dall'università fino alla creazoione del suo studio associato. Un percorso molto progressivo, passando da tappe importanti come lo sviluppo di un GIS opensource, nel contribuire negli enti UNI e CEN, l'apertura dello studio come singolo professionista, poi studio associato fino ad offrire servizi specializzati dedicati al BIM.Il collante di tutto è Archicad, conosciuto ai tempi dell'università, ed alle sue qualità openBIM e del suo sistema integrato di software: BIMcloud in primis, permettendo il lavoro contemporaneo di più tecnici sullo stesso file, ed il BIMx con le sue qualità di comunciazione: oltre a questi spunti, in questa bella chiacchierata tra architetti seduti attorno allo stesso tavolo, non mancheranno argomenti comuni ai professionisti del mondo dell'architettura come ad esempio l'argomento E-permit.Buon ascolto!CAPITOLI[0.20] Giorgio Schiavini[1.35] Formazione e mondo del lavoro[4.50] L'inizio con Archicad e vantaggio competitivo[11.15] Sviluppo web GIS open source[17.55] E-permit[22.30] Apertura del proprio studio e dello studio associato[30.10] Esperienza negli enti CEN ed UNI[32.25] Punti di vista sull'attuale situazione del mondo AEC[38.35] Villa singola con piscina[43.05] Progettazione plesso scolastico[45.40] Progettazione per un complesso industriale di 45.000 mq con CR BIM[54.30] Gestione economica tra computo ed abachi[58.00] Riduzione dei costi del progetto con Archicad[1.01.00] Risparmio di tempo nella progettazione con BIMcloud[1.04.10] Campi di utilizzo del BIMx[1.04.55] Utilizzo del'AI[1.08.55] SalutiVideo corsi presenti della piattaforma Graphisoft LearnBlog di Graphisoft Italia

Bentornati su Snap!Dopo l'imponente nuvola di informazioni che Michele Bondanelli ha lasciato nell'ultima puntata, è ora di salutare i nuovi Snapper Bledi e Gianluca che si sono uniti al canale Snap di Telegram!Un sacco di novità sono arrivate in rete: il mio nuovo video per il canale Youtube Architetto Digitale in cui spiego come cambiare la tonalità degli strumenti di Morpholio Trace; il nuovo video di Michele Bondanelli per il suo canale YouTube OutOfBIM in cui spiega come importare una nuvola di punti con Archicad 28; sempre Michele pubblica il suo White Paper sulla nuvola di punti con iPhone ed infine Runtime Radio inaugura la seconda edizione del festival della canzone artificiale!Dopo aver sentito le ultime notizie di Sogei, Lombardia, Piemonte e BIM obbligatorio negli appalti pubblici, si passa ad ArchiVinci, nuovo tool AI per i render, l'accordo bSI con openUSD (e non dite che non ve lo avevo detto!) ed il cambiamento del mercato immobiliare americano per causa, guarda un po', dell'AI!Buon ascolto!—>

Bentornati su Archicad Talks!Il lavoro in squadra è la cosa più difficile da fare: gestire le capacità e le competenze dei componenti al meglio, mantenere una comunicazione efficace, trasmettere le informazioni in modo chiaro dentro e fuori lo studio, mantenendo al contempo la visione architettonica del progetto.Tutte qualità che possiamo trovare all'interno dello Studio Righele che hanno scelto Archicad come loro mezzo di progettazione, sia in ambito pubblico che privato, gestendo al meglio il cantiere per dar il massimo al loro Cliente, raccontato con viva passione che si può cogliere nelle parole di Lorenzo Righele e Massimo Tulbian. Con loro abbiamo toccato tantissimi argomenti, che hanno come filo conduttore la centralità di Archicad per laprogettazione integrata tra i settori architettura, strutture ed impianti, dal cantiere alle NZEB fino alla frontiera dell'utilizzo dell'AI in Studio. Decisamente un viaggio pieno di spunti di riflessione con un occhio ben puntato verso il futuro della nostra professione.   Buon ascolto!CAPITOLI[00.20] Studio Righele[02.05] La formazione di Lorenzo Righele[03.30] Massimo Tulbian porta Archicad in studio[05.10] La trasmissione dei dati nella progettazione integrata[10.00] Gestione degli impianti col Archicad[14.30] Gestione dell progetto con Archicad[20.00] Gestione del cantiere privato con Archicad[24.50] Gestione del cantiere pubblico con Archicad[27.00] L'aiuto del BIMx in cantiere e con le Amministrazioni Comunali[33.25] BIM, Lavori Pubblici ed Amministrazioni Comunali[41.10] Palestra polifunzionale di Belluno[45.05] Nuova Palestra di Malo (VI)[47.00] Nuovi spogliatoi per il circolo di tennis di Malo (VI)[50.40] L'importanza del mezzo di progettazione[55.25] Consigli per gli edifici NZEB[1.00.05] L'AI in studio[1.08.50] Guida a Graphisoft AI Visualizer[1.10.05] Saluti Video corsi presenti della piattaforma Graphisoft LearnBlog di Graphisoft Italia

On today's episode of Architectette we welcome a dynamic duo! Aya Shlachter and Jing Lauengco are two outstanding women who connected over their mutual tenacity for entrepreneurship, design, and storytelling. Both women are business owners, entrepreneurs, and podcasters.  Aya Shlachter is the CEO and founder of MGS Global Group, a company that accelerates growth for architecture and design firms worldwide by providing architectural support and staffing services internationally. Her team provides Revit, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, and 3D Visualization services to architects and interior designers. Aya is a keynote speaker and the host of the Architect My Business Podcast – a business growth podcast for architects. Jing Lauengco is an award-winning Brand and Business Strategist and Producer and Host of NEXT THING WITH JING, a podcast exploring next chapters in the new now. Jing teaches modern entrepreneurs how to connect, convert, and engage using signature storytelling and brand building to drive growth. We talk about:  - How Aya and Jing came to be friends and collaborators through their local entrepreneur community and how it has impacted their personal and professional lives. - We talk about the challenges, uncertainties, and pivots of being serial founders and how each woman has built their own architecture and design industry businesses and have grown through each success, failure, or experiment. - The power of storytelling: how understanding your story and being able to convey it to others can enrich your ability to connect, market, and grow. - We also talk about their experiences as podcast hosts: favorite topics, guests, rebranding, and community building. Links: Aya on LinkedIn MGS Global Group Architect My Life Podcast Aya on Instagram Jing on LinkedIn Consulting- Jing Inc Other Brown Girl Next Thing with Jing Podcast Jing on Instagram Architectette Podcast Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.architectette.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Connect with the pod on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Instagram (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@architectette⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and TikTok (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@architectette⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) Exclusive Content on our Newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.architectette.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠AlexGrohl⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/architectette/support

In this episode, Daniel Moore speaks with Dr Waldemar Jenek, who isn't a registered architect but is an architectural academic specialising in advanced architectural technology at the Queensland University of Technology. Dr Waldemar Jenek is an experienced researcher and educator specialising in the intersection of education, technology, and architecture. With a strong focus on computational technologies and their impact on architectural design, his research explores immersive environments, interactive computer graphics, and parametric design, connecting the digital and physical worlds. He is passionate about integrating immersive technologies into education, leveraging his expertise in software design, augmented, virtual and mixed reality. Hearing Architecture is proudly sponsored by Brickworks. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much to our guest, who isn't a registered architect, but an academic expert in advanced architectural technology at the QUT, Dr Waldemar Jenek. We can't wait to see what you do in the future. Our sponsor Brickworks also produces architecture podcasts hosted by Tim Ross. You can find ‘The Art of Living', ‘Architects Abroad, and ‘The Power of Two', at brickworks.com.au or your favourite podcast platform. If you'd like to show your support please rate, review, and subscribe to Hearing Architecture in your favourite podcast app. If you want to know more about what the Australian Institute of Architects is doing to support architects and the community please visit architecture.com.au This is a production by the Australian Institute of Architects Emerging Architects and Graduates Network, in collaboration with Open Creative Studio. The Institute production team was Madelynn Jenkins, and Claudia McCarthy, and the EmAGN production team was Daniel Moore. This content is brought to you by the Australian Institute of Architects Emerging Architects and Graduates Network, in collaboration with Open Creative Studio. This content does not take into account specific circumstances and should not be relied on in that way. This content does not constitute legal, financial, insurance, or other types of advice. You should seek independent verification or advice before relying on this content in circumstances where loss or damage may result. The Institute endeavours to publish content that is accurate at the time it is published, but does not accept responsibility for content that may or will become inaccurate over time.

A Change in Plans: The Journey from Building a Practice to Serving PractitionersAya Shlachter is the CEO and owner of MGS Global Group, a female-minority-owned business that supports architecture and design firms. Her team provides Revit, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, and 3D visualization services to architects and interior designers.Aya holds a Master's degree in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Additionally, her interest in the hospitality industry led her to further her education through Harvard University's Hospitality Design and Planning professional development program.Aya is an international speaker and hosts the "Architect My Life" podcast, where she spotlights women business owners in the creative fields.In addition to her professional pursuits, Aya is a wife and mother of two. She also enjoys travelling, cooking, and spending time outdoors.This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, A Change in Plans: The Journey from Building a Practice to Serving Practitioners with Aya Shlachter. Connect with Aya at MGS Global Group, check out their Youtube, or follow her on LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsGo to https://betterhelp.com/architect for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help. Thank you to our sponsor BetterHelp for supporting our community of small firm entrepreneur architects.ARCAT.com is much more than a product catalog, with CAD, BIM, and specifications created in collaboration with manufacturers. ARCAT.com also offers LEED data, continuing education resources, newsletters, and the Detailed podcast. Visit https://ARCAT.com to learn more.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU... The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.

Muchos hablan de BIM pero pocos pueden presumir de desarrollar proyectos en BIM como norma. Mucho menos si hablamos de estudios que publican en revistas y tienen un portfolio lleno de creatividad. Nos zambullimos en el día a día BIM en Morph Studio. La metodología BIM está alcanzando un alto grado de madurez y un nivel de adopción que lo convierten en muchos despachos de arquitectura e ingeniería en la opción estándar a la hora de desarrollar y gestionar proyectos. En pocos años hemos pasado de una minoría heróica de vanguardistas y early-adopters a ser herramienta común en grandes estudios de arquitectura, por eso nos hemos ido a ver cómo utilizan BIM en MORPH Estudio. Uno de esos estudios de arquitectura que han abrazado BIM desde el inicio de sus tiempos, y que ahora constituye una normalidad en el día a día es Morph Studio. El equipo capitaneado por César Frías desarrolla todo tipo de proyectos de alto standing, siempre usando la metodología BIM, al tiempo que incrementa su know-how apostando por proyectos de investigación, invirtiendo recursos del estudio en abrir nuevas posibilidades en el empleo de la metodología. En este episodio charlamos con César sobre BIM, acompañado por algunos de sus escuderos: Pablo Pumares, BIM Manager de Archicad, Mariana Ibargüen, BIM Manager de Revit, y Diego Rodríguez, director de I+D.

What's the difference between and Interior Designer and a Decorator?Let me ask you a question? Do you know the difference between and interior designer and a decorator?We discuss 3 questions to ask yourself if you are deciding which way to go here.Welcome to episode , I'm Adam Scougall of the So You Want To Be An Interior Designer podcast, and welcome to EPISODE 3. My aim for the show is really to teach you the thrills, reveal the spills and show you can create an Interior Design career that fits your lifestyle But first, whether you are just checking if you are the right fit for a new career in design, or wondering how you can improve what's going on in your current design career*Take the quiz over at soyouwanttobeaninteriordesigner.tv/quiz So You Want To Be an Interior Designer?Ok, Now back to the 3 questionsWhat- I'm going to explain the difference and tell you why some people are hung up on the difference between the twoHow- Give you true definition as well as well as why it's ok to be a hybrid if you want to Why?- Because you want to know your strengths and understand how to position yourselfOk, Now the 3 questions Q 1- Are you interested in function as much as form?·       If you find yourself thinking as much about the internal cupboard of the kitchen, as much as the fabric on the roman blind over the sink, you probably have a designer's mindQ 2- Do you want to do Residential or Commercial projects?·       Much of Interior Design specific education is based around commercial elements·       Commercial projects will require detailed technical drawings, as well as industry standard codes to be able to get the drawings approved etc·       Residential projects allow more details ‘fluff and tease' than commercial projects.Q 3- Are you techy?·       You don't need to be a technical wizard, but there are tools that you will need to learn to be a designer [ArchiCAD, or even sketch-up]·       If you aren't techy, you can outsource the skills to need the needs of the design market [i.e kitchen/bath/joinery design]Action stepsTake a piece of paper or open a word doc and write your pros and cons Leave a comment if you have some thoughts if you are watching on YouTube, and please subscribe if you like the content. *Take the quiz over at soyouwanttobeaninteriordesigner.tv/quiz 

Sharing a New Paradigm for the Profession of ArchitectureJared 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 evolved Shoegnome into a hybrid of BIM consultancy and architecture firm. Located in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, Shoegnome Architects works with homeowners on custom residential projects and other architects/designers on improving their Archicad usage and BIM integration.From 2010 through 2013 Shoegnome, LLC was the GRAPHISOFT Agent for Minnesota, providing Archicad training, support, and sales. If you haven't watched one of Jared's Archicad videos, read one of his blog posts, or heard him speak at a user group, conference, or webinar, you've probably never googled an Archicad question or attended an Archicad event. Since 2015, Jared has become increasingly passionate and obsessed with sharing the Shoegnome Open Template for Archicad.This week on EntreArchitect podcast, Sharing a New Paradigm for the Profession of Architecture with Jared Banks.Learn more about Jared at Shoegnome, or follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, and Instagram.Referenced in this EpisodeEA493: Jared Banks - Learning to BIM with ShoegnomePlease visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.EntreArchitect Network. Since 2012, EntreArchitect has helped thousands of architects like you find the connections, training, and critical business resources needed to build happy, healthy, profitable architecture firms. Join EntreArchitect Network today.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.

Using the Apple iPad to Reinvent the Design Process for ArchitectsCampbell 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. Bringing over 25 years of business experience and leadership Campbell has a wide experience over many aspects of the SMB market having been involved across Customer Support, Development, Marketing, Project and Business management. Campbell believes growth and success are driven based on have a customer-centric mindset and brings this approach to all companies that he works with.Campbell has over 20 years experience with Subscription and Recurring Revenue business models covering all aspects from strategy and design; to development and implementation; to digital marketing strategy to drive growth. During the last 10 years Campbell has implemented a number of Subscription and SaaS based models in a variety of markets. All implementations have been specifically tailored to match the goals and the environment each business operates in.Prior to moving to Hungary, Campbell was part of Cadimage Group in New Zealand for 20 years (over 10 years as owner and Managing Director) and completed a successful exit of the business to Central Innovation in August 2016. During his time managing Cadimage, Campbell founded and launched the Cadimage Tools business, selling ARCHICAD Tools to customers world wide and established a UK Office to provide development and support for the Cadimage Tools.Cadimage Group was an innovation Partner for GRAPHISOFT SE in Hungary, and introduced a number of initiatives prior to their subsequent world wide release. These include Free Eduction Versions (2000), a premium Support and Maintenance Program (2001) and ARCHICAD Subscription (2015). At the time of the sale of Cadimage Group, ARCHICAD had gained a 55%+ share of the New Zealand market.Campbell completed a Bachelor of Architecture Studies at Auckland University in 1996.This week on EntreArchitect podcast, Using the Apple iPad to Reinvent the Design Process for Architects with Campbell Yule.Learn more about Campbell at Campbell Yule and Codesign, connect with him on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow Codesign on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.EntreArchitect Network. Since 2012, EntreArchitect has helped thousands of architects like you find the connections, training, and critical...

The Up StudioJohn 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 duality in design, using minimalist designs to maximize solutions across projects all while trying to bring joy and fun to the process.Alongside the Architectural practice, John has lectured for the AIA, Architecture Record, and at New York Institute of Technology. He has also been an active design critic for multiple schools of Architecture.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, The Up Studio with John Patrick Winberry.Learn more about John at The Up Studio, and connect with him on Instagram, Facebook or YouTube.Referenced in this EpisodePretty Good House by Michael Maines, Daniel Kolbert, Emily Mottram, and Christopher BrileyPlease visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

A Guide To Creating Better HomesChris 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 not designing planet positive buildings, Chris can be found either sailing in Casco Bay, or hiking a mountain trails somewhere with his family.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, A Guide To Creating Better Homes with Chris Briley.Learn more about Chris at Briburn and Pretty Good House, check out the Green Architects' Lounge podcast, and connect with him on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn.Referenced in this EpisodePretty Good House by Michael Maines, Daniel Kolbert, Emily Mottram, and Christopher BrileyPlease visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Behind the Design at Wade Weismann ArchitectureTom'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 approach).Following his time at Cohen and Hacker, Tom formed his own practice, at which time he coincidentally met Wade Weissmann, though it would be several years before their paths crossed again. In the interim, Tom took a position with Lichten Craig Architecture + Interiors (now Craig and CO.) working on interior condo renovations in Chicago. In the summer of 2015, Tom reconnected with Wade and made the decision to relocate to Milwaukee.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Behind the Design at Wade Weismann Architecture with Tom Wynn.Learn more about Tom at Wade Weismann Architecture.Referenced in this EpisodeEA323: How Earned Trust Leads to Your Best Work [podcast]Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

How To Attract Top Talent To Your Architecture FirmShannon Hughes is a consultant and facilitator with a calling to nurture 'people first' company culture with small and medium-sized firms. In her practice, Enlivened Studios, she brings strategic business mentorship and experiential teaching practices to incite easeful collaboration and embolden transformational leadership.With 20+ years of corporate marketing and HR strategy experience, plus a lifetime of proven leadership, performance and creative devotion, Shannon combines skill + heart into every Enlivened Studios session. Through this work, she's on a mission to help people live fully, lead consciously and impact the world with joy and collective aliveness.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, How To Attract Top Talent To Your Architecture Firm with Shannon Hughes.Learn more about Shannon at Enlivened Studios, connect with her on LinkedIn. Access Shannon's free resource The 5 Tips to Inspire a People First Culture HERE.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

How Knowing The Price of Lumber Will Improve Your Next Architecture ProjectFor 27 years, Michael Wisnefski has been actively trading commodities. Lumber is his specialty, where he is active in both the futures markets and the physically traded material.In July 2019, Wisnefski founded MaterialsXchange, a B2B digital marketplace for buying and selling lumber and structural wood panel. The inspiration for this business came from his experience trading lumber futures. In 2009 He was the first trader in the lumber futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to use a hand held computer.Prior to that, Wisnefski was active in the financial markets trading futures on equities and government bonds, while also working as VP of Business Development for a Lumber wholesale distributor.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, How Knowing The Price of Lumber Will Improve Your Next Architecture Project with Michael Wisnefski.Learn more about Michael at MaterialsXChange, check out the SmartMarket livestreams, or follow him on Youtube, Twitter, and LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Madame Architect Senior EditorAmy Stone is an architect and design manager at Gensler with a long-term interest in sustainable design and equitable environments. She is dedicated to the visibility and advancement of women in design and contributes as Senior Editor at Madame Architect. Amy is a life-long learner and is currently pursuing her MBA at Georgia Tech's Scheller College of Business.Amy brings experience with a wide variety of project types including workplace, sustainable design, multi-family housing, higher education, mixed-use, adaptive reuse, commercial and residential, renovations, and interior design. She is experienced in large and small project scales and works fluidly in all phases of design and construction.Amy is the Senior Editor at Madame Architect, the online magazine featuring the stories of women in architecture and design. Thus far, Madame Architect has told the story of over 300 women, including Frida Escobedo, Neri Oxman, Deborah Berke, and Sheela Sogaard, as well as recent graduates, CEOs, entrepreneurs, journalists, publicists, and more. Madame Architect has been featured in Fast Company, A Women's Thing, Metropolis Magazine, Architizer, and the Architect's Newspaper.Amy is from Peachtree City, Georgia. After living in Utah, Hawaii, and Northern Chile (where she became more fluent in Spanish), she returned to Atlanta, where she resides with her husband and three children.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Madame Architect Senior Editor with Amy Stone.Learn more about Amy at Madame Architect, or follow her on LinkedIn.Referenced in this EpisodeEpisode 090: Madame Architect: Work, Family, and Everything In Between [podcast]Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Tyler's Tactics for Communicating Your Unique Value as an ArchitectTyler is a serial learner obsessed with helping architects optimize all things business development, marketing, and operations.Before transitioning into Business Development at Monograph, Tyler worked in large and small architecture offices and also ran his own architectural design studio for 2.5 years. He holds a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Michigan and a M. Arch from Princeton University.Tyler is currently creating a community of architects at TylerTactics.com, where he sends one quick & powerful tactic each week to help architects communicate their unique value.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Tyler's Tactics for Communicating Your Unique Value as an Architect with Tyler Suomala.Learn more about Tyler at TylerTactics.com, or follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Pushing Beyond the Boundaries of Architecture at Nomi DesignMelody Farris Jackson, LEED AP, is a visual artist and designer that works between many scales and types of spatial design. Since joining Nomi, she has specialized in the development of branded environments using both architectural and fabricated elements to create unique and custom experiences in architecture. From furniture and installations to campus planning, Melody brings creative solutions to 3 share the narrative and poetic expression of space. As a designer, she has worked on creative concepts for Nike, Siemens, Toyota, and Keurig. She has served as faculty for architecture at the University of Kentucky and for art at Eastern Kentucky University. Melody received her Master of Architecture from Cornell University. As an artist, Melody has had work displayed in galleries in New York, and Kentucky and is currently on display at the Clark Regional Medical Center in Winchester, Kentucky.Matthew Brooks, AIA, is the owner and founder of Nomi Design. His comprehensive body of work spans a wide variety of project types and sizes. Informed by his experience working with Herbert Beckhard (a former partner of the Bauhaus master, Marcel Breuer), Matthew subscribes to the philosophy that the strength of any architectural project lies in its unique set of components: Variations in the type, scale, scope, history and budget of a project influence innovation and design elements, thereby generating a uniquely specific response to each design challenge. Matthew believes that architecture is a holistic practice that should be environmentally, socially and financially sustainable. He challenges himself and the firm to consider each project in terms of 'the bigger picture', and to assimilate that understanding into relevant architecture that is an extension of the client's vision paired with the architect's talent. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Pushing Beyond the Boundaries of Architecture at Nomi Design with Melody Farris Jackson and Matthew Brooks.Learn more about Melody and Matthew at Nomi Design, or follow them on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of...

A Financial Scoreboard for Your Architecture PracticeRick Linley leads Strong Practice Strategies, a business consultancy focused on helping leaders of evolving and emerging design firms to strengthen their practices. His work is informed by over 30 years of practice experience culminating in his role as Principal/COO of a 200-person, multi-disciplinary, multi-location design firm. Rick taught professional practice at a Masters level for 10 years, is a frequent speaker at professional association con-ed sessions, and recently published his first book: Scoreboard Your Practice: 7 Numbers to Understand Your Design Firm's Financials.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, A Financial Scoreboard for Your Architecture Practice with Rick Linley.Learn more about Rick at Strong Practice Strategies, check out the book, or follow him on LinkedIn.Referenced in this EpisodeSole Practitioner Architects by Edward J. Shannon, AIA [book]Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Learning to BIM with ShoegnomeJared 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 evolved Shoegnome into a hybrid of BIM consultancy and architecture firm. Located in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, Shoegnome Architects works with homeowners on custom residential projects and other architects/designers on improving their Archicad usage and BIM integration.From 2010 through 2013 Shoegnome, LLC was the GRAPHISOFT Agent for Minnesota, providing Archicad training, support, and sales. If you haven't watched one of Jared's Archicad videos, read one of his blog posts, or heard him speak at a user group, conference, or webinar, you've probably never googled an Archicad question or attended an Archicad event. Since 2015, Jared has become increasingly passionate and obsessed with sharing the Shoegnome Open Template for Archicad.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Learning to BIM with Shoegnome with Jared Banks.Learn more about Jared at Shoegnome, or follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, and Instagram.Referenced in this EpisodeTen Tips for Successful BIM Implementation [blog]Shoegnome Open Template v26.2 for Archicad 26Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing

EntreArchitect Studio is a series of special bonus episodes where Mark invites inspiring, passionate people to share their knowledge and information about the building products and services to help you build better buildings.This week at the EntreArchitect Studio we are featuring:Scan2Plan - V. Owen BushV Owen Bush is a creator and entrepreneur who uses immersion and participation to create transformative social experiences. His works are presented in venues such as live events, music festivals, digital planetaria, IMAX3D, broadcast television, mobile devices, VR and the web. Owen is a pioneer in interactive, experiential and immersive design with early projects including: Pseudo.com, MTV's Amp, QUIET!/We Live In Public, SonicVision at the Hayden Planetarium, and the Molecularium Project at Rensselaer.As a freelance motion designer, Owen has developed broadcast television promos for NBC, MTV, VH1, PBS, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Discovery, History Channel, NY1, and others.Owen is the director & CEO of Glowing Pictures, a visual experience company that collaborates with cultural institutions, performing artists and brands to create Immersive Wonder. Glowing Pictures' collaborations include: Google, Twitter, Wired Magazine, American Museum of Natural History, Canon Camera, Paramount Pictures, Dubspot, Eyebeam, Pitchfork, Flavorpill, MTV Networks, The New Museum, Beatport and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.In 2015, Owen co-founded DaydreamVR, later SpaceoutVR, Inc. a mobile Virtual Reality software company. Spaceout.VR is a free to play Social VR MMO for iOS & Android. In 2018 SpaceoutVR was acquired by ValueSetters.In 2018 Owen co-founded Hudson Virtual Tours and then Scan2Plan, Inc. in 2020. We began with a simple goal of helping architects & engineers focus on design. We're the company that does what it says on the tin, an on-demand LiDAR to BIM/CAD team that can model any building in weeks. This can be done within any scope, budget or schedule.This week at EntreArchitect Studio Podcast, Scan2Plan with V. Owen Bush.Learn more at Scan2Plan, and find Owen on LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered... and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU... The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.EntreArchitect + GraphisoftArchicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page...

How To Maximize Your Creativity EverydayPositioning himself as an “arms dealer for the creative revolution”, Todd Henry teaches leaders and organizations how to establish practices that lead to everyday brilliance. He is the author of five books (The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Louder Than Words, Herding Tigers, The Motivation Code, Daily Creative) which have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and he speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership, and passion for work.With more than fifteen million downloads, his podcast The Accidental Creative offers weekly tips for how to stay prolific, brilliant, and healthy.Todd's book Die Empty was named by Amazon.com as one of the best books of 2013.His latest book, Daily Creative, offers daily sparks of inspiration and practical advice for creative pros.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, How Maximize Your Creativity Everyday with Todd Henry.Learn more about Todd at Todd Henry, check out the podcast, or follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.Referenced in this EpisodeTodd Henry's booksPlease visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Architecture Through Film Reveals The Unseen StoryKLIWADENKO NOVAS is an audiovisual production company with a focus on contemporary architecture, urban planning and its relationship with society.The works have been exhibited at architecture film festivals such as New York, Rotterdam, Venice and New Zealand, among others, as well as biennials such as Switzerland or Seoul.Katerina Kliwadenko, a Chilean journalist, together with Mario Novas, a Spanish architect, are the people behind these works.Interested in people capable of redrawing the limits of their disciplines by questioning what they do, they develop self-managed projects, as well as commissions for different platforms and institutions. Our interest in this region comes through its constant crisis which obliged them to constantly reinvent itself.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Architecture Through Film Reveals The Unseen Story with Marios Novas.Learn more about Marios at KLIWADENKO NOVAS, or follow him on Instagram.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

The 3 KPIs Every Architect Should Be TrackingHannah Smolinski is a CPA and the founder of Clara CFO Group, a virtual CFO agency providing small businesses with financial clarity and profit maximization strategies. Her experience working for one of the world's largest accounting firms inspired her to make corporate expertise accessible to small business owners through fractional CFO services. She also hosts a YouTube channel with over 35,000 subscribers and uses the platform to help small businesses achieve financial success.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, The 3 KPIs Every Architect Should Be Tracking with Hannah Smolinski.Learn more about Hannah at at ClaraCFO.com, or follow her on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest or TikTok. To access Hannah's FREE KPI Worksheet - Discover what matters in your business, click here. Referenced in this EpisodeSimple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential by Greg CrabreePlease visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

DetroitMichael Poris, AIA, is founding principal of McIntosh Poris Associates, a full-service architecture, interior and urban design practice in Birmingham, MI. Since returning to Detroit in 1995, Michael has been working to implement change in his hometown preserving many of Detroit's 20th-century landmark buildings, historic districts, and iconic neighborhoods.Michaels design leadership has helped transform Detroit with projects such as the Foundation Hotel, and the East Riverfront framework plan. His work has won over 130 design awards including 30 AIA Honor awards, 70 Detroit Design Awards and been published in over 100 publications worldwide including Dwell, Urban Land, Architectural Record, and Interior Design. Michael is currently working on an adaptive reuse of the 600,000sf Fisher Body plant in Detroit, and a 600 prefabricated home community in Colorado.Michael was recently awarded the AIA Detroit Charles Blessing award recognizing an individual who shows leadership in planning and civic issues and exemplifies the vision, commitment and the accomplishments of Charles A. Blessing, the visionary Detroit city planner, who committed himself to the pursuit of a higher quality of life for all.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Detroit with Michael Poris.Learn more about Michael at McIntosh Poris Associates, and connect with him on LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

How To Elevate Your Design BusinessDesign is powerful and Pamela wants Design Professionals to step into that power. After 30 years in the high-end interior design business, she is now helping others create a business they love through Magnetic Marketing techniques which makes it easier to attract the best clients. Her book, Elevate! can be found on Amazon.Pam is a past-president of ASID Florida South Chapter, served on the Board of Architecture and Design in NJ and has written a book, Elevate!, which outlines lessons learned and easy techniques to grow your own business. She lives in Naples, FL and in her spare time, loves spending time on the beach and learning new moves in her home dance studio.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, How To Elevate Your Design Business with Pamela Durkin.Learn more about Pam at Pamela-Durkin.com, and connect with her on Facebook and Instagram.Referenced in this EpisodeElevate!: How to take your design business from the basement to the Penthouse! by Pamela DurkinPlease visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Residential Construction Estimating for ArchitectsChris Previte is a Licensed Construction Supervisor and Licensed Real Estate Salesperson with 20 years' experience as a consultant, sales representative, and project manager in the residential remodeling industry. Success Techniques, Inc. has been providing residential remodeling feasibility studies, estimating, planning & contract writing since 2001. Architects can focus on running your business and overseeing projects by having Success Techniques help assess potential customers and bring them to contract. Whether it be site visits, writing estimates and contracts or having that 2nd set of eyes to brainstorm an approach, Success Techniques can be your part-time partner to help you “Get Your Nights & Weekends Back”. With 400 successful projects launched under Success Techniques, Inc. supervision, Chris helps home buyers & homeowners make a more informed decision by determining the total value of a property including potential additions & remodeling.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Residential Construction Estimating for Architects with Chris Previte.Connect with Chris online at Success Techniques, find him on LinkedIn, or email him directly at chris@cpsti.com. Please visit Our Platform SponsorsTravel by Design Behind the facade of every world-class hotel, there's a story waiting to be heard. From a secluded overwater villa in the Maldives, to a rejuvenated royal palace in Budapest, to a trendy hotspot in downtown Los Angeles — join Hamish Kilburn, host of this original podcast by Marriott Bonvoy Traveler, as he meets the architects, designers, and visionaries who dive deep into the craft of design and connect us to the world's most extraordinary travel experiences. Listen now at Travel by Design.Detailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated

Material BankAs Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Material Bank, Farshid Tafazzoli is focused on corporate growth initiatives, from strategy to execution, and key strategic partnerships across all business units. Farshid has worked alongside Adam Sandow since the earliest days as Chief Technology Officer to build out Sandow's vision to create the world's largest material marketplace for architectural, design and construction materials.Farshid's background is in fintech as Co-Founder of Trade Station Group, one of the early electronic brokerage firms on Wall Street. Farshid held a variety of key roles as he expanded the company from a concept to the 6th largest online broker-dealer. From managing a single office operation to expanding worldwide in Equity, Options, and Futures markets, Farshid helped grow the firm to over 400 employees by organic and strategic acquisitions. Farshid was a key contributor to the company's IPO and ultimate sale to a Japanese Bank.After TradeStation Group, Farshid continued to create other technology-based Wall Street fintech firms that focused on delivering proprietary data utilized for primary and secondary research purposes.Shortly after divesting from these ventures, SANDOW brought in Farshid to bring to life category firsts such as Beauty DNA, the world's first algorithm-based Beauty Engine, followed by the inception of Material Bank. Now valued at almost $1.9 billion dollars, Farshid leads many of Material Bank's acquisitions, building out a vast network servicing the interior design industry worldwide.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Material Bank with Farshid Tafazzoli.Connect with Farshid online at Material Bank, or find him on LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

The Architecture of MotherhoodGloria Kloter, AIA, NCARB, CODIA, is an award-winning architect, founder and CEO of Glow Architects, a keynote speaker, and a bestselling author. Gloria has been a practicing architect both in her home country (Dominican Republic) and in the United States since 2004. She is an advocate for immigrant architects, women in architecture, and motherhood. In her book, The Architecture of Motherhood, she shares her incredible journey to becoming a worldwide renowned architect and business owner while being a new mom. Through this book, the reader can learn how women in any industry can find a balance between their professional life and motherhood without having to compromise either role. Kloter has dedicated a huge chunk of her career to helping other young architects grow. As a leader in the architecture community, she is the founder of the Foreign Architects, a private online community where she mentors young and aspiring immigrant architects on how to obtain their architect license in the United States.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, The Architecture of Motherhood with Gloria Kloter.Connect with Gloria online at Glow Architects and Foreign Architects, check out her book The Architecture of Motherhood, or find her on LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Essential Planning for Life as an ArchitectBorn and raised in New York, Roger takes pride in being immersed in the community in which he lives and works. He is President and Founder of Compass Financial Pathways, LLC, a firm that has aligned with New York Life to provide world class financial solutions to small business architectural firms.Roger believes in empowering his clients to have a seat at the table regarding their financial matters and engaging in the crucial conversations necessary to take control of their financial future. His ultimate goal is to create peace of mind for the clients he serves and community of financially savvy individuals, who can in return, continue to educate and empower one another throughout the various stages of life.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Essential Planning for Life as an Architect with Roger Silvera.Connect with Roger online at New York Life, or find him on LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Freshbooks is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Heartfulness Meditation for ArchitectsNitin Govila, a global business executive, has an extensive background in building and growing regions and organizations across multiple industries, channels and cultures. Presently as the Senior Vice-President for Serge-Ferrari, Nitin manages 7 independently-operated territories across Asia Pacific,Middle-East and Africa. Serving on the executive leadership team, Nitin is directly accountable for all business operations and M&Aactivities across the region. Nitin received his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) with First Division (Honors) from Punjab Engineering College (PEC),Chandigarh, India. To diversify himself, Nitin pursued his MBA with HEC Paris, School of Management with a Merit scholarship. Moving from India to Paris to attend the program was a huge endeavor but propelled his career with international organizations and enabled him to adapt to different countries, cultures and sensitivities. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Heartfulness Meditation for Architects with Nitin Govila. Connect with Nitin online at https://www.sergeferrari.com/ (Serge-Ferrari), find him on https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-govila-5224a3/ (LinkedIn) and https://www.facebook.com/nitin.govila (Facebook), and contact him professionally about Serge-Ferrari at nitin.govila@serge-ferrari.com or personally about meditation at nitingovila@gmail.com.  Please visit Our Platform Sponsorshttp://arcat.com/podcast (Detailed) is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at http://arcat.com/podcast (ARCAT.com/podcast). http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects. Graphisoft + EntreArchitect https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect/ (Archicad BIM) software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect/ (EntreArchitect + Graphisoft) for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Growing NS Builders with Content and QualityNick Schiffer started NS Builders in 2014, but his story begins much earlier. Even as a kid, he loved working with his hands—tinkering with a bike, building a mini-empire with Lincoln Logs, figuring out how to put things back together after ripping them apart. At age 11, Nick was already working in his Dad's fencing business. Attending a vocational school marked a turning point—two classes, in particular, would profoundly impact Nick's career path. Cabinet making and house carpentry shop fueled his passion for all things construction, and from then on, Nick knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life—build houses. Really amazing houses. After graduating from Fitchburg State University with a bachelor's degree in Construction Technology/Management, it was time to leave the family business (not an easy decision). Accepting a job in Boston for a big company, Nick soon worked his way up to assistant project manager, completely immersing himself in the various aspects of construction management. Nick wasn't letting go of his dream—to own his own business—and he worked at night on his own side projects, gaining experience through trial and error, discovering how to juggle multiple jobs effectively, and the financial side of running the show. He held himself and his work to the highest level and refused to settle for less. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Growing NS Builders with Content and Quality with Nick Shiffer. Connect with Nick online at https://www.nsbuilders.com/ (NS Builders) and https://www.nickschiffer.com/my-story (Nick Shiffer), and find him on https://bit.ly/nsbuildersyoutube (YouTube), https://www.instagram.com/nsbuilders/ (Instagram), and https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickschiffer/ (LinkedIn). Referenced in this Episodehttps://www.eventcreate.com/e/contractorcoalitionsummit (Contractor Coalition Summit) Please visit Our Platform Sponsorshttp://arcat.com/podcast (Detailed) is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at http://arcat.com/podcast (ARCAT.com/podcast). http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects. Graphisoft + EntreArchitect https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect/ (Archicad BIM) software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect/ (EntreArchitect + Graphisoft) for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

Culture Driven Vision with CEO of Mancini DuffyWilliam Mandara Jr., AIA, is the chief executive officer and co-owner of Mancini Duffy, a national design firm with a 100+-year-old history and tech-forward approach based in New York City. Bill comes from a family in the business: his father and grandfather were general contractors. He got the most thankless tasks during his teenage summers at his father's job sites. In retrospect, it was a great way to instill understanding and respect for the profession. It was also a not-so-subtle hint from his father that he should be thinking about architecture school instead. He had been at TSC Design for five years when Mancini Duffy purchased the firm's assets in 2011, at which point he was named a Senior Associate. He was later named a principal in 2014, became co-owner of the firm in 2017, and was named chief executive officer in 2018. Throughout his career, Bill's believed in having consistency of vision and values: that we should never put ourselves or our vision ahead of the client's. This consistency lets us respond to our clients quickly, with clarity and authority. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Culture Driven Vision with CEO of Mancini Duffy with Bill Mandara. Connect with Bill online at https://www.manciniduffy.com/ (Mancini Duffy), and find him on https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-mandara-aia-8ab36b11 (LinkedIn). Referenced in this Episodehttps://entrearchitect.com/podcast/entrearch/reinventing-a-100-year-old-architecture-firm-through-technology/ (EA420: Christian Giordano – Reinventing a 100 Year Old Architecture Firm Through Technology) https://entrearchitect.com/podcast/entrearch/how-to-manage-cash-flow/ (EA394: Bolanle Williams-Olley – How To Manage Cash Flow) Please visit Our Platform Sponsorshttp://arcat.com/podcast (Detailed) is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at http://arcat.com/podcast (ARCAT.com/podcast). http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects. The Graphisoft + EntreArchitect PartnershipI am excited to announce that Graphisoft is now an official partner of EntreArchitect and The EntreArchitect Community. I've been meeting with the Graphisoft team for months preparing for this partnership and I can confidently say that our friends at Graphisoft are fully committed to supporting our small firms… and our transition to Archicad and BIM. Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery - no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options, and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. That's why I am personally committed to finally making the move to BIM myself, from CAD to Archicad. (I'll share more on that as I progress.) I encourage you to reach out and talk to the folks at Graphisoft today by visiting our own dedicated webpage at https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect). There is even an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects. Go now to https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect) and see how Graphisoft is positioned to help make YOUR architecture firm a success. That's https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect...

Advocating for Change Through ArchitectureFauzia Khanani is the founder of Studio For, an architecture and interiors firm based in NYC with global projects ranging from workplace to community-centered projects. She received her M.Arch from the University of California Berkeley and her previous career as a sociologist in public health continues to have a strong influence on how she approaches design.  She is a founding member and currently Co-chair of the AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee as well as a cofounder and Board Vice President of Design Advocates, a non-profit organization established in March 2020 for architects to share resources and collaborate on efforts to serve the public good through pro bono projects, research, and advocacy. She is a Core Organizer for the Design As Protest Collective, a group of anti-racist designers dedicated to Design Justice in the built environment.  This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Advocating for Change Through Architecture with Fauzia Khanani. Connect with Fauzia online at https://www.studioforny.com/ (Studio Fōr) and https://www.dapcollective.com/ (Design As Protest Collective), and find her on https://www.linkedin.com/company/studiofor (LinkedIn), https://www.facebook.com/StudioForNY/ (Facebook), or https://www.instagram.com/studioforny/ (Instagram). Please visit Our Platform Sponsorshttp://arcat.com/podcast (Detailed) is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at http://arcat.com/podcast (ARCAT.com/podcast). http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects. The Graphisoft + EntreArchitect PartnershipI am excited to announce that Graphisoft is now an official partner of EntreArchitect and The EntreArchitect Community. I've been meeting with the Graphisoft team for months preparing for this partnership and I can confidently say that our friends at Graphisoft are fully committed to supporting our small firms… and our transition to Archicad and BIM. Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery - no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options, and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. That's why I am personally committed to finally making the move to BIM myself, from CAD to Archicad. (I'll share more on that as I progress.) I encourage you to reach out and talk to the folks at Graphisoft today by visiting our own dedicated webpage at https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect). There is even an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects. Go now to https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect) and see how Graphisoft is positioned to help make YOUR architecture firm a success. That's https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect.)

Right People. Right Seats.Whether it be in business or in life, Mel believes in fixing the root cause at the deepest level – not treating the symptoms. As a trusted leader and consulting resource within the building materials, architecture & design, and construction space, Melanie helps industry professionals grow in themselves and in their careers, as well as strategically helps entrepreneurs and business leaders at a deeper level overcome foundational challenges hindering them from results. As a Professional EOS® Implementer and Business Coach, Melanie acts as a teacher, coach, and facilitator — helping business leaders transform their companies and, ultimately, their lives. She helps implement a complete, proven system with simple, practical tools to help business leaders achieve three things: vision, traction and health. When you align and synchronize all the moving parts of your business you create clarity, accountability, efficiency, and profitability. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Right People. Right Seats. with Melanie Anne Towey. Connect with Melanie online at https://www.bymelanieanne.com/ (ByMelanieAnne.com), and find him on https://www.linkedin.com/company/bymelanieanne/ (LinkedIn) or https://www.instagram.com/bymelanieanne/ (Instagram). Referenced in this Episodehttps://www.amazon.com/Traction-Get-Grip-Your-Business-ebook/dp/B007QWLLV2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZHFFZJEJADNH&keywords=traction+book&qid=1664468788&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjE1IiwicXNhIjoiMS44MyIsInFzcCI6IjEuOTcifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=traction%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-1 (Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman) Please visit Our Platform Sponsorshttp://arcat.com/podcast (Detailed) is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at http://arcat.com/podcast (ARCAT.com/podcast). http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects. The Graphisoft + EntreArchitect PartnershipI am excited to announce that Graphisoft is now an official partner of EntreArchitect and The EntreArchitect Community. I've been meeting with the Graphisoft team for months preparing for this partnership and I can confidently say that our friends at Graphisoft are fully committed to supporting our small firms… and our transition to Archicad and BIM. Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery - no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options, and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. That's why I am personally committed to finally making the move to BIM myself, from CAD to Archicad. (I'll share more on that as I progress.) I encourage you to reach out and talk to the folks at Graphisoft today by visiting our own dedicated webpage at https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect). There is even an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects. Go now to https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect) and see how Graphisoft is positioned to help make YOUR architecture firm a success. That's https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect.)

Smart HomesScott Ruzich leads a company that is aggressively at the forefront of modern technology. Epic Smart Homes exists to connect the dots between how we live and what we can do to remove tedium and add joy. Founded in 2005, with many successful residential and commercial installations across California, Texas, Nevada, and Hawaii, Epic is built on the understanding that time is the most precious commodity. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Smart Homes with Scott Ruzich. Connect with Scott online at https://epicsmarthomes.com/ (Epic Smart Homes), and find him on https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-ruzich-a85064a5/ (LinkedIn). Please visit Our Platform Sponsorshttp://arcat.com/podcast (Detailed) is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at http://arcat.com/podcast (ARCAT.com/podcast). http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects. The Graphisoft + EntreArchitect PartnershipI am excited to announce that Graphisoft is now an official partner of EntreArchitect and The EntreArchitect Community. I've been meeting with the Graphisoft team for months preparing for this partnership and I can confidently say that our friends at Graphisoft are fully committed to supporting our small firms… and our transition to Archicad and BIM. Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery - no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options, and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. That's why I am personally committed to finally making the move to BIM myself, from CAD to Archicad. (I'll share more on that as I progress.) I encourage you to reach out and talk to the folks at Graphisoft today by visiting our own dedicated webpage at https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect). There is even an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects. Go now to https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect) and see how Graphisoft is positioned to help make YOUR architecture firm a success. That's https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect.)

Single Stop Integrated Residential Design BuildDave Pollard, AIA LEED AP is an architect, builder, and co-founder of Liv Companies; a full service residential design-build company in the Chicago suburbs. Dave has worked for several high profile Chicago firms such as Goettsch Partners, and David Hovey's Architect-led development company, Optima Inc, honing his skills to better understand how to make the process of design more efficient, and therefore more accessible. With Dave as the Design lead, LivCo has won numerous awards including Twenty-six Chicago Remodeling Excellence Awards, Five regional remodeling excellence awards, a National Remodeling Excellence Award in 2021, Home of the Year Award, Contractor of the Year Award, Six consecutive years Houzz Best in Service, Remodeling Big50, and in 2018, Dave was on ProRemodelers 40 under 40 list. Dave is considered a thought leader in the industry, and has been published in both the Journal of Light Construction and Remodeling Magazine. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Single Stop Integrated Residential Design Build with David Pollard. Connect with Dave online at https://www.livcompanies.com/ (Liv Companies), and find him on https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidppollard/ (LinkedIn). Please visit Our Platform Sponsorshttp://arcat.com/podcast (Detailed) is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at http://arcat.com/podcast (ARCAT.com/podcast). http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects. The Graphisoft + EntreArchitect PartnershipI am excited to announce that Graphisoft is now an official partner of EntreArchitect and The EntreArchitect Community. I've been meeting with the Graphisoft team for months preparing for this partnership and I can confidently say that our friends at Graphisoft are fully committed to supporting our small firms… and our transition to Archicad and BIM. Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery - no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options, and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. That's why I am personally committed to finally making the move to BIM myself, from CAD to Archicad. (I'll share more on that as I progress.) I encourage you to reach out and talk to the folks at Graphisoft today by visiting our own dedicated webpage at https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect). There is even an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects. Go now to https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect) and see how Graphisoft is positioned to help make YOUR architecture firm a success. That's https://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect (Graphisoft.com/us/EntreArchitect.)

CEO and Cofounder of aec+techNiknaz is the CEO and co-founder of aec+tech, an all-in-one innovation platform and community connecting AEC/O (Architecture, Engineering, Construction & Operations) professionals with the latest tools and technologies. Prior to launching aec+tech Niknaz practiced architecture in the bay area, California, both as a design professional as well as a design technologist. Niknaz is a member of AIA San Francisco design technology committee, and has also been developing curriculum and teaching architecture courses online to Bahai students in Iran who continue to be deprived of access to universities in their own country. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, CEO and Cofounder of aec+tech with Niknaz Aftahi. Connect with Niknaz online at https://www.aecplustech.com/ (aec+tech), and find her on https://www.linkedin.com/in/niknazaftahi/ (LinkedIn). Please visit Our Platform Sponsorshttp://arcat.com/podcast (Detailed) is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at http://arcat.com/podcast (ARCAT.com/podcast). http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all-in-one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://entrearchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects. The Graphisoft + EntreArchitect PartnershipI am excited to announce that Graphisoft is now an official partner of EntreArchitect and The EntreArchitect Community. I've been meeting with the Graphisoft team for months preparing for this partnership and I can confidently say that our friends at Graphisoft are fully committed to supporting our small firms… and our transition to Archicad and BIM. Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery - no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options, and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. That's why I am personally committed to finally making the move to BIM myself, from CAD to Archicad. (I'll share more on that as I progress.) I encourage you to reach out and talk to the folks at Graphisoft today by visiting our own dedicated webpage athttps://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect ( graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect). There is even an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects. Go now tohttps://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect ( graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect) and see how Graphisoft is positioned to help make YOUR architecture firm a success. That'shttps://graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect ( graphisoft.com/us/entrearchitect.)