We discuss the different types of architectural degrees offered and why one might pick one type over another (To B.Arch or not to B.Arch? That is the question.) based on an #askarchispeak question from a listener, and Cormac toured the Exchange Tower that’s currently under construction in Detroit. It’s being built… differently.

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With Exchange, LIFTbuild Delivering First Top-Down Project in the US Since the '70s

In this episode, we discuss Deborah Berke FAIA’s presentation and James Wines’ interview from the 2022 Monterey Design Conference which recently happened at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in California. We get into the adaptive reuse typology as well as environmental art and architecture.

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Monterey Design Conference (MDC) 2022 website

Asilomar Conference Grounds by Julia Morgan (Wikipedia)

Deborah Berke Partners website

NXTHVN project

Adaptive Reuse projects and white paper

James Wines SITE website

BEST Products Company Buildings

Ghost Parking Lot

When Art, Architecture and Commerce Collided: The BEST Products Showrooms by SITE (ArchDaily)

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Cormac talks about his recent attendance of a lecture about architectural ornamentation from yesteryear in Detroit while Evan is speaking at the inaugural EntreArchitect Annual Meeting in Austin.

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Wirt C. Rowland (Wikipedia)

Corrado Parducci (Wikipedia)

Albert Kahn

The Life of Albert Kahn

Albert Kahn (History of Detroit)

Guardian Building (History of Detroit)

Guardians of Detroit: Architectural Sculpture in the Motor City • By Jeff Morrison

Guardians of Detroit on Instagram

Millard Sheets (Wikipedia)

In this episode, we discuss various mental, psychological, and physical injuries sustained from architectural (or construction) projects.

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Archispeak 31 - Architecture Will Kill You

This episode is about communication in our profession. Are you elevating or dumbing down the conversation? Is anybody listening? We also talk about wasting time in “valuable” “meetings”, how when the size of teams grows the lines of communication and complexity grows at a larger rate (Brooks’s Law), and more.

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Brooks’s Law (Wikipedia)

It’s a “rantiversary”! We have some fresh follow-up on a 2-year-old episode about a Twitter thread on why one individual was sounding the alarms and contemplating leaving the industry — who then did leave — and hasn’t looked back. The conversation then ties into additional follow-up from a more recent topic about accountability for predatory and toxic educational and workplace environments kindled by the SCI-Arc Basecamp “How to be in an Office” panel discussion.

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Archispeak 186 - Why I’m Likely Leaving

Archispeak 260 - How (not) to be in an Office

Maryanne’s Twitter threads: how it started vs. how it’s going

Evan’s Twitter thread about why talent is leaving the industry

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We discuss how Evan’s recent talks about the future of the practice were received by two different audiences: architects and CFO’s. One group is much more excited about where we’re going… can you guess which one?

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Lamy Safari fountain pen (Amazon)

We discuss a recent rant by Thomas Heatherwick about boring architecture, emotional responses to the built environment, the fabric of the city, what community is, cool scars, and more.

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Add your name to the list at Tect

"We're living through an epidemic of boringness" says Thomas Heatherwick

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Evan is delivering a keynote titled ‘Disruptive Technology in Architecture, and You’ at the 2022 AIA Kansas Annual Conference, rural architecture and architects, presentation skills, communication, and more.

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Johnny America ‘zine website

AIA Kansas 2022 Annual Conference

Topic

Following our ‘quiet quitting’ episode we now discuss ‘quiet firing’, the objectification of roles in the profession and the unsustainable nature of this approach by incumbents for the future of the labor force, additional thoughts on other recent episodes and how they tie into this discussion and topic, workaholism, MidJourney AI image creation, and more.

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The Hustle Architect on Twitter and the Welcome to the Grind Unbuilt Environment store

After ‘quiet quitting,’ here comes ‘quiet firing’ (Washington Post)

Archispeak #276 - Quiet Quitting

Archispeak #274 - Tyranny of the Green Light

Archispeak #273 - Know Anyone Interested?

Archispeak #269 - Architecture is Hard

From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks (Amazon)

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