Trends
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05/26/05
Who’s on the Team? Rapid Role Changes in Design
Ed. note: This is Gerry Hammond’s perspective on how design roles have changed in the past decade.
Gerald S. Hammond
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05/26/05
DFC Thought Leaders Consider Two Decades of Design
When any decade is compressed, examined and filtered, it seems tumultuous. But the stretch from 1995 to now has without question been a doozy for design and the world at large.
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04/27/05
The One Percent Solution for Pro Bono
If all of the United States’ 240,000 architects gave 20 hours a year to pro bono work, the result would effectively be a 2,500-member firm, working full-time for clients who could not normally afford professional design.
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04/27/05
City Codes May Hinder Urban Planners
According to a Brookings Institute study released last month, many municipal building and zoning codes not only work against smart, walkable urban centers: in some cases they outlaw them.
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04/27/05
School Security Stresses Design in Addition to Social, Behavioral Remedies
With another multiple-fatality shooting at a public school last month that left 10 dead, the issues of security in schools is again being raised post-Columbine.
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08/15/04
Security can be Harmonious
After the Department of Homeland Security announced the possibility of terrorist attacks against “iconic” financial structures, the American Society of Landscape Architects responded by posting abstracts from its recent security design symposium for
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07/12/04
Creative Jobs On The Rise; Manual and Labor Jobs Decline
According to two economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, some of the most quickly growing job fields are those “that require imagination and creativity.”
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07/12/04
Divergent Strategy Aligns with Trends Reshaping Design
Changing conditions in the marketplace create new opportunities. It is increasingly possible—but not always easier—to achieve satisfying professional practice AND build successful businesses.
James P. Cramer
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07/12/04
Environmental Graphic Design Wields Growing Influence, Fees
Environmental graphics may be a comparatively young design field, but its fees and prominence are growing.
Lisa Ashmore
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07/12/04
Design Talent no Longer White, Male, Middle-Aged
Not only are the times a-changin’, so is the workforce. While this is true for virtually every industry, many AEC firms believe that our industry is at the leading edge of a dramatic change in the AEC workforce.
Jacqueline Rast
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