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240: I've Got to Get My Project Out on Friday

Two questions close out the BIM 2.0 arc. When a tool generates a design for you, where does its output stop and your judgment start? And what does interoperability actual

239: You're Not Going Home Early

Episode one ended with the pitch: new tools give architects their day back. Episode two asks the harder question. If a firm stops running one platform and starts running

238: Half Your Day Isn't Design

The first episode of The Next AEC Tech Stack opens on the number nobody wants to say out loud. Randall Stevens of AVAIL puts the mundane overhead of an architect's day at

237: 'The Interns Will Have Interns', with Phil Read

Phil Read joins the podcast to talk about where human judgment belongs in an AI-assisted design process. We explore his case for the infamous sawtooth diagram (the thing

236: 'No One Can Own the Law', with Garrett Reynolds

Garrett Reynolds joins the podcast to talk about UpCodes' decade-long fight to keep building codes free and public. We explore the string of lawsuits UpCodes has faced fr

235: 'How Olson Kundig Scaled AI Adoption Across a 300-Person Firm', with Marlene Chen and Blair Payson

Marlene Chen and Blair Payson join the podcast to talk about how a firm known for design, not technology, actually puts new tools to work. We explore the office-wide crit

234: 'Here's to the Crazy Ones, AEC Edition', with Håvard Vasshaug

Håvard Vasshaug joins the podcast to talk about what happens to building data after the architect hits save, and why so much of it dies inside the authoring tool. We expl

233: 'Spaces For People To Kiss', with Mariusz Hermansdorfer

Mariusz Hermansdorfer joins the podcast to talk about turning an internal tool into a product for the whole profession. We explore how he spun Jifto out of Henning Larsen

232: 'Bringing Joy Back to Architecture', with Tatjana Dzambazova

Tatjana Dzambazova joins the podcast to talk about why the AEC industry deserves a brand new tool, one built for AI from the ground up instead of bolted onto software des

231: 'Architects: Reclaim Control in CA', with Jack Sadler

In this special partner episode, Jack Sadler joins the podcast to talk about the phase of a project where architects quietly lose control: construction administration. We

230: 'Rooms for Storytelling', with Keith Gerchak

Keith Gerchak joins the podcast to talk about the double life he's been living for thirty years: designing spaces for storytelling as the Design Principal at TheatreDNA,

229: Campfire Series - 'The CGarchitect Story', with Jeff Mottle

In this special Campfire Series episode, Jeff Mottle joins the podcast to tell us the full story of CGarchitect — from a side project launched in 2001 to a 21-year platfo

228: 'What Did You Actually Do Today', with Steve Burrows CBE

Steve Burrows CBE joins the podcast to talk about why the construction industry keeps rewarding dysfunction instead of fixing it. We explore the gap between selling time

227: 'Are We Horses or Are We Coal', with Rachel Riopel

Rachel Riopel joins the podcast to talk about why enterprise transformation keeps failing in AEC and what it actually takes to make it stick. We explore the gap between r

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

Charles Portelli joins the podcast to talk about what you learn when you leave architecture to build software, and what you bring back when you return. We explore the gap

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

Antonio González Viegas joins the podcast to talk about the open source infrastructure layer he's building for BIM software and why the barriers that have protected legac

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

Martyn Day joins the podcast to talk about the forces quietly dismantling how architecture and engineering work gets done, and how it gets charged for. We explore how AI-

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

Pablo Zamorano Mosniam joins the podcast to talk about what it looks like to build a technology practice around design values rather than the other way around. We explore

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

Mirco Bianchini joins the podcast to talk about where AI automation is actually headed in AEC and why the industry is likely focused on the wrong problems. We explore the

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

Joachim Viktil joins the podcast to talk about the growing gap between how architects are trained to think and how architectural firms are structured to operate. We explo