We sat down with technology thinker, practice educator and architect Phil Bernstein to talk about technology and the future of design. DesignIntelligence: Leaders of firms, chief technology officers, and designers seem to be looking for the technology that will follow BIM. What do you think comes next? Phil Bernstein: First, let’s contextualize BIM. BIM … Continued
The practice of sustainability has been built upon relativity in measuring, managing, and making improvements to the status quo. In large measure, the practice of sustainability is influenced by both local and federal policy environments as well as by market and economic forces. Since we now have new occupants in the executive branch of the … Continued
Organizations interested in staying ahead of the curve are seeking transformative change. How can design innovation continue at its rapid pace without leaving end users behind? Business as usual is not an option in today’s highly competitive markets. New technology-induced business models are constantly challenging and often overtaking older, established, and often antiquated ones. This … Continued
cul·ture (klCHr) n: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization A firm’s culture is driven by the leader of an organization, and the most successful organizations are led by a values-based leader. A values-based leader is someone who knows what’s really important to him- or herself and … Continued
We all know that the pace of change is exponentially faster than it has ever been. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Yet it can confuse and cause all sorts of misunderstandings. Sometimes the speed of change ironically leads to management paralysis. This paralysis develops in some people an intellectual or behavioral hesitation to … Continued
When we look back at the water planet—that most famous picture taken by Apollo 8 astronauts from the moon—we see beautiful, pristine blue, with swirling white clouds of vapor and massive caps of ice. And the first thing we seek when we look to the stars is for other circles of blue like us. A … Continued
It is easy to believe that complex buying decisions are made primarily on reason, facts and numbers. However, evidence shows decision-making is far more complex. One can make a compelling case that in the end, emotions play a larger role than reason in business-to-business purchasing contexts. Such insights change the way that A/E/C firms should … Continued
Eric Cesal was frustrated when he graduated from architecture school in the winter of 2008, the year the financial world and architecture world came apart. In his book, Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice (2010), Eric observed that architects were among the hardest hit and as a new addition to the profession, … Continued
If we polled leaders from the architecture and engineering industry about the biggest effects that information technology has had on their firms over the last decade (software, data, cloud, etc.), their answers would likely cluster around the major changes such technologies drove for the design process and business model of building design. But that is … Continued
Phil Bernstein
Lois Vitt Sale
Lauri Goodman Lampson
Katy McQuaid
Jim Cramer
Carl Ganter
Bob Fisher
Barbara Bryson
Aaron Lapsley