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We discuss Cormac’s big news 🎉 and the various type of places we as architects have for making including sketchbooks, apps, coding, and physical workshops. What are your favorite places for making? Let us know on Twitter (@archispk) or in the comments for this episode at https://archispeakpodcast.com

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The Craftsman (tv show trailer on YouTube)

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What do concept cars, skateboarding, and architecture have in common? It’s all about ‘the process’, finding new ways to suffer, expertise vs generalization, all the pieces of the puzzle, and thinking about how we evolve the built environment.

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Isuzu VehiCROSS (Wikipedia)

Pontiac Aztek (Wikipedia)

The Pontiac Aztek Survived Walter White in Breaking Bad; Why didn’t It Survive in the Auto Market? (MotorBiscuit)

PITCHING A TENT In My Pontiac Aztek Factory Overlanding Package (YouTube)

Dymaxion house (Wikipedia)

Buckminster Fuller (Wikipedia)

The History of Sears Kit Homes

Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (YouTube)

The SCI-Arc toxic culture topic on Archispeak: episode 260 & episode 262

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Music producer & YouTuber Rick Beato had some observations about Gen Z in a recent video on his channel. In this episode, we compare his theory to our experiences raising kids, and then draw parallels to architecture. We also throw down about the ‘data versus wisdom’ tug-of-war that’s occurring in the industry.

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Rick Beato - Why Gen Z Doesn’t Care About Music (YouTube)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard website

Rolodex (Wikipedia)

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We get a house-hunting update from Cormac, share some of our experiences designing science buildings, and also touch on project delivery methods, quality contractors, and change orders.

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”We’ll See” parable

Contractor's Guide to Change Orders (2nd Edition) (Amazon)

@CheriseLakeside on Twitter

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We get an update on Cormac’s house hunting saga and follow up on our recent conversation regarding the SCI-Arc Basecamp panel discussion and the apparent lack of conversation within the architectural community about the cultural factors that were surfaced which should be widely addressed.

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Basecamp: How to be in an Office (by SCI-Arc on YouTube)

SCI-Arc LowLights - Basecamp: How to be in an Office (video synopsis of the spicy parts by Anon505 on YouTube)

“We all make our own choices” by The Hustle Architect (@VitruviusGrind on Twitter)

NAAB - National Architectural Accrediting Board

NCARB - National Council of Architectural Registration Boards

AIA - American Institute of Architects

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Heavy sigh; deep breath. Cormac’s house hunting adventure continues. We also observe the architectural profession’s identity crisis in which the problem of it lacking a communicable, easily understandable value proposition to the market is ever apparent.

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Evan and Cormac discuss the recent controversies surrounding and following a live event (and corresponding live stream on YouTube) in SCI-Arc’s Basecamp lecture series entitled “How to be in an Office” on March 25, 2022 featuring panelists Tom Oyler (Oyler Wu), Marikka Trotter (Tom Wiscombe Architecture), and Margaret Griffin (Griffin Enright Architects). Topics in this discussion include education, internships, firm culture, studio culture, scholarships, business models, toxic culture, exploitative environments, suffering for the art, work/life balance, disconnected “leadership”, and more.

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Basecamp: How to be in an Office (by SCI-Arc on YouTube)

SCI-Arc LowLights - Basecamp: How to be in an Office (video synopsis of the spicy parts by Anon505 on YouTube)

“We all make our own choices” by The Hustle Architect (@VitruviusGrind on Twitter)

Controversy at SCI-Arc over labor practices leads to faculty members placed on leave. Isolated incident or a wake up call for the industry at large? by Katherine Guimapang (Archinect)

What is going on at SCI-Arc? by Audrey Wachs (The Architect’s Newspaper)

SCI-Arc town hall leaked audio files

SCI-Arc town hall response from SCI-Arc CEO Hernán Díaz Alonso (Archinect)

SCI-Arc public salary records 2019 (Archinect)

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Cormac is very busy house shopping and therefore taking multiple road trips to the new location, so naturally, he has some stories about the current housing market landscape. We also discuss the state of truthiness (or lack thereof) in online real estate listings, both written and photographically.

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We discuss the recent death of Christopher Alexander, his infamous book A Pattern Language, the newly released The Adam Project movie and architecture as a character, Cormac’s big news, and more.

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The Adam Project (Netflix)

Gimme: The House from ‘The Adam Project’

Christopher Alexander (Wikipedia)

Pattern Language website

The book: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander (Amazon)

Fallingwater weekly livestream: A Closer Look

Eames lounge chair (Wikipedia)

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Evan stages an intervention because of Cormac’s fountain pen hoarding and then the hosts open the storybook on past projects where teammates took too much liberty in the decision-making process.

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Lamy Safari fountain pens (official website | buy on Amazon)

Noodler’s Ink - Blue Black, of course (Amazon)

Field Notes reporter’s notebooks (official website | buy on Amazon)

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