[125] Building a Feminist Architecture Firm
How do you redefine what a 21st-century architecture firm looks like and how it operates?
This week Leah Alissa Bayer, Sarah Vaccaro, and Kate Conley discuss their practice, Architects FORA, a 100% woman-owned design firm.
[118] 2023 AIA Architecture Firm Award Winners, Mithun
What can we learn from the 2022 AIA Architecture Firm Awards Winners, Mithun?
Mithun is an integrated design firm dedicated to creating positive change in people’s lives. The firm’s team of architects, landscape architects, interior designers, urban designers and planners work in a wide range of typologies and scales — with a focus on urban environments and places where people live, work and learn.
[105] – Podcast Live: AIA|LA People, Process, and Practice: Technology + The Business of Design
Digital transformation is revolutionizing the AECO industry, offering new ways to develop and construct the built environment. The use of cloud, data, and artificial intelligence is maximizing the creative potential of architects and engineers, by augmenting their ability to rapidly create, analyze, and optimize designs, while also streamlining processes and revealing actionable project insights. However, this rapid advancement of technological trends sometimes creates more questions than answers.
[085] – A Case Study for Practice: Latent Design
How do you build an architecture practice that reaches beyond projects to further impact policy, culture, and community?
Latent Design is a progressive Chicago-based architecture firm working at the intersection of design and community development to create social, economic and environmental impact.
[084] – Understanding the Architecture Labor Movement
About the Episode About the Episode Who is the Architectural Workers United? The Architectural Workers United is organizing towards making architecture more equitable, the profession more just, and our built environment more resilient. Join us as we interview Andrew Daley (AWU, organizer) and Jess Myers (RISD, faculty) to learn more about the architectural labor movement, unions, and the history […]
[071] – A Case Study for Practice: Shepley Bulfinch
About the Episode About the Episode What workplace policies and recruitment strategies actually attract talent? This week is both a case study for practice management and firm leadership, featuring two CEOs working in partnership to help their firm grow and navigate this pivotal moment of industry transformation. Shepley Bulfinch is a national architecture firm that […]
[069] – A Case Study on Leadership: Expanding Established Design Practice to New Locations
What does it take to help an established firm set up a new office in a new location?
This week we host a panel interview featuring three architects representing three award-winning design firms to learn about their individual experiences of helping each of their practices expand into a new location.
[051] – Designing a Culture of Mentorship
How can architects rethink studio culture through conversations on mentorship
Je’Nen shares her vision for helping her clients assess and redesign their talent development strategies. She explains why this is critical at the individual level to support better project work.
[042] – Building a Great Place to Work
About the Episode About the Episode Can you measure workplace culture? And if so, how? Great Place to Work® is on a mission to build a better world by helping organizations become a great place to work FOR ALL by 2030. Backed by 30 years of research, Great Place to Work® is the global authority on […]
[031] – Balancing Operations Management & Firm Culture
We interview Michael Bernard, an architect, and management consultant who works with design-first architecture firms in the Bay Area. Michael shares his perspective on operations management and the evolving business model of architecture.