Archispeak

By Evan Troxel & Cormac PhalenBusiness Technology Arts Careers Design

Archispeak episodes

March 21, 2022 #256 - Stop the Work
Topics: Stopping the work; firing bad clients; abusive clients, the promise of future projects, and their effect on morale in the studio; rationalizing crappy project work; digging holes of risk; communicating design; and more.
Links
TRXL 071 - ‘Trust But Verify’, with Roderick Bates
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44 min
March 14, 2022 #255 - I Still Have a Scar
Topic
Books. Libraries. Personal architectural book libraries... We did some organizing of the bookshelves and it gave us a reason to slow down & crack open some old friends, which led to talking about some first-year arch school projects.
Links
Cyril A. Farey (Wikipedia)
Farey’s works sold at auction
Ian Stewart (watercolor artist)
Wassily Kandinsky (Wikipedia)
Piet Mondrian (Wikipedia)
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43 min
March 07, 2022 #254 - Two Turntables and a Microphone
Topic
We compare and contrast our recent getaways to New York City and Death Valley National Park, and archi-nerd-out on performing arts theater design.
Links
Hamilton on Broadway
Death Valley National Park
Rhyolite Ghost Town
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36 min
February 28, 2022 #253 - Darker Than Dark
It’s time to plan another road trip to a National Park, dark skies, astrophotography, and Evan speaks at a Professional Practice class at a local architecture school.
Links
Death Valley National Park (Nat’l Park Service)
The racetrack
Great Basin National Park (NPS)
Valley of Fire State Park (Nevada State Parks)
Badlands National Park (NPS)
EntreArchitect community (Facebook)
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44 min
February 21, 2022 #252 - Wandering Down a Path
We’re celebrating a couple of birthdays, iPhone photo memories that lead to a conversation about amazing architectural chapels, and more.
Links
Wayfarer’s Chapel by Lloyd Wright
Wayfarer’s Chapel (Wikipedia)
ARCHEYES article on Wayfarer’s Chapel (includes the plan drawing)
Additional drawings of Wayfarer’s Chapel
Thorncrown Chapel by E. Fay Jones (Wikipedia)
Yancey Tire Chapel by Rural Studio
Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel by E. Fay Jones (Wikipedia)
Duke University School of Nursing by Ayers Saint Gross (Facebook)
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32 min
February 14, 2022 #251 - Revisiting Rural Studio
A conversation about a recent lecture by Andrew Freear and Rusty Smith of Rural Studio at The Architectural League.
Links
Andrew Freear and Rusty Smith, Rural Studio: The Challenges of Sustainable Rural Living (YouTube)
Archispeak #170 - Guerilla Architecture; a conversation with Steven Hoffman of Rural Studio after a viewing of the Citizen Architect documentary.
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45 min
February 07, 2022 #250 - Outside the Vacuum
Topic
We discuss how the grass is always greener wherever someone looks like they are loving their career, ping pong ball shooters and old-timey drum brakes, formative TV shows and books on making things, problem-solving including the interpretation of the building code, and more.
Links
Adam Savage’s website
Mythbusters (Wikipedia)
Tested - ping pong ball shooter (YouTube)
Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage (Amazon)
This Old House website
New Yankee Workshop website
Bitchin’ Rides
Paint the Rust by The Dodo’s (YouTube)
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman (Amazon)
Grease Junkie: A Book of Moving Parts by Edd China (Amazon)
How to Build a Car by Adrian Newey (Amazon)
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43 min
January 31, 2022 #249 - The Benefits of Hindsight
A follow-up conversation (with the occasional digression) to a recent presentation at the AIAS FORUM | CONVERGE 2022 conference for architecture students.
Links
Advice for the Next Generation of AEC Professionals (YouTube)
Students: Join the Peopleverse | AIAS FORUM CONVERGE (YouTube)
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44 min
January 24, 2022 #248 - Fresh Perspectives
It’s 2022 and we didn’t even notice, Cormac doesn’t like “resolutions”, work ethics and work habits, attracting and retaining talent, the profession’s struggle with profit and devalued labor to create it, scheduling quality productive time, and setting boundaries with Focus modes.
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57 min
December 13, 2021 #247 - Bondo Artistry
In this conversation we talk about the fluff and non-fluff in architectural drawings, the Disney-esque nature of Cormac's project, the architect's avoidance of "means and methods", the benefits of bringing other parties in to collaborate early on projects, and finally, Dale Carnegie's quote: "Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
Links
Write Notepads & Co.
Dale Carnegie's quote
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41 min

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Archispeak is one of architecture's longest-running podcasts — 383 episodes of honest, unfiltered conversation about what it's actually like to work in the profession. Since 2012, architects Evan Troxel and Cormac Phalen have been exploring design, career, firm culture, tools, work/life balance, mentoring, generational differences, and job hunting — everything that comes with building a life in architecture.