ARCHITECT

In the fourth episode in our series on sound, architectural acoustics expert and educator Michael Ermann and CertainTeed Architectural national sales manager Steve Udolph share the secrets of how to ensure optimal acoustics in a concert hall.

This is the third episode in our podcast series helping architects better understand acoustics. If you haven’t heard the first two episodes yet, make sure to go back and listen to “How Can Architects Better Understand Sound?” and "Unpacking the Latest Trends in Architectural Acoustics."

In this second episode in our series on sound, architectural acoustics expert and educator Michael Ermann and CertainTeed Architectural national sales manager Steve Udolph help us understand the latest trends in architectural acoustics.

In this episode, architectural acoustics expert and educator Michael Ermann and CertainTeed Architectural national sales manager Steve Udolph give us a closer look at when architects should start thinking about sound and emerging acoustical trends.

As a new year begins, businesses across sectors are facing familiar challenges: COVID-19, experimental workplace models, economic uncertainty, climate change, and social inequity. Addressing these overarching issues in meaningful ways often falls off the everyday to-do list of architects, but for company executives, strategic, big-picture thinking is their priority, their task. In this episode, Shepley Bulfinch former president and CEO Carole Wedge and current CEO Angela Watson share their agenda for the future, lessons from their experiences, and insight into the executive suite of architectural practice.

Lumenance Consulting founder Nancy Alexander, Perkins&Will principal and director of global diversity Gabrielle Bullock, and University of Washington College of Built Environments dean Renee Cheng discuss common myths and questions about the role and place of DEI in architecture.

In this episode, ARCHITECT contributing editor Ian Volner talks with LMN partner Stephen Van Dyck and principal Scott Crawford on they coupled design thinking with fabrication know-how to create an ethereal landmark for the city of Everett, Washington.

Steven Holl discusses his firm’s recently completed project at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., and reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic will influence the design of future educational, institutional, and arts spaces.

Karrie Jacobs interviews the writers about their forthcoming book on the history of quarantine facilities, which they were finishing in March while on lockdown in Los Angeles at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Listen to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill partners Carrie Byles, Laura Ettelman, and Xuan Fu describe their paths to the top of the global firm and their goals during their appointments.