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Link: Archispeak 15 - Constraints

This new episode is all about constraints: why we need them, if we should use them to tell stories about architecture, and if it is possible to design without them. I want to personally give a huge thanks to all of our new Friends of the Show who donated to

Link: My 2d CAD software of choice

I wrote an article on Method that talks about what tool I've chosen for my 2d CAD work when doing architecture projects. I pretty much hate CAD, but it's a necessary evil. ∞

✱ Today's Desktop

Here's what I'm up to today: translating this lobby stair design study model into a Revit model for construction documents on the Performing Arts building I've been working on. I think this is the third iteration of these stairs.

Link: Archispeak #12 - Permanence in Architecture

In this episode of the Archispeak Podcast, Cormac takes a wild ride and ends up at Fallingwater, which leads into a discussion of the permanence in architecture and how we design and specify materials. Are we designing obsolescence into our buildings? Is all architecture meant to be permanent? Join us

Link: Archispeak makes an appearance on the Business of Architecture Podcast

This is part one of the Archispeak crew on the Business of Architecture Podcast. Part two will be out in the near future. Enoch Sears: In this episode I talk with the creators of the wildly successful podcast that “dares to peek under the architectural kimono” and tell us what

✱ Weekly Photograph #18

Looking Up Frank Gehry's work is polarizing. This image was made the first time I visited the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown LA. His is an architecture of possibility. I don't know about you, but I couldn't stop looking. Looking in every direction.

Link: Archispeak #11 - The Studio Environment

This was a fun episode, and is all about the studio environment, which is the architectural bedroom. It's where the magic happens.