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In this special replay episode, John Turner of Gafcon Digital joins the podcast to talk about digital twins and their value proposition in the total building lifecycle, who is—and who isn't—involved (that probably should be) in digital twins, risk aversion & business models, the internet of things & the internet of actions, the 'digital thread', and more.

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Links

• Digital Twin Consortium
• Gafcon's Digital Twin/Cyberbuild Approach
• Lean manufacturing (Wikipedia)
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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In this special replay episode, Phil Bernstein of the Yale School of Architecture joins the podcast to talk about teaching his pro practice course that encourages architecture students to push beyond the traditional business model, value propositions of architecture, encouraging collaboration when working in isolation, and much more.

Links

• Phil Bernstein on Twitter
• Phil’s ARCH 2230b course at Yale School of Architecture entitled Technology and Practice – Exploring New Value in Design Practice
• Architecture | Design | Data – Practice Competency in the Era of Computation by Phillip Bernstein
• Evan’s YouTube videos mentioning Phil’s inspiration
• Paper Drawings Need to Die! (Digital Built Week Seattle 2019)
• Architectural tech, practice, and education in Charleston!
• Phil’s articles that elaborate more on the topics in this episode:
• Phil Bernstein Shares Ten Thoughts on the Future of Practice
• Why the Field of Architecture Needs a New Business Model
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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In this special replay episode, Anthony Hauck of HYPAR joins the podcast to talk about making the mark you want to make, pursuing something that feels more valuable, shared goals and value propositions in AEC, and more.

Links

• Calamityware Mugs
• DBEI (BiLT Conference)
• Disruptive Technologies in Architecture – AIA Palm Beach Presentation – Nov 2020 (YouTube)
• Architecture - Design - Data: Practice Competency in the Era of Computation by Phillip Bernstein
• TRXL episode 003 with Ian Keough, CEO of Hypar
• TRXL episode 028 with Brian Ringley, Construction Technology Manager at Boston Dynamics
• Spacemaker
• Book recommendations:
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
• The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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In this special replay episode, Nathan Miller of Proving Ground joins the podcast to talk about hobbies during the pandemic, the digital transformation of AEC, some drawbacks of generative design, privacy concerns with IoT devices and connected buildings, and so much more!

Links

• Proving Ground web site
• Computers are Hard blog post
• Nathan Miller on Twitter
• Nathan Miller on LinkedIn
• Leading architecture firms pen open letter to Autodesk over rising costs, sluggish development (Archpaper)
• Ender 3d Printer (Amazon)
• Book recommendations:
• What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly (Bookshop)
• The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind (Bookshop)
• YouTube links and channel recommendations:
• Nate's NXT BUILD 2020 presentation (YouTube)
• Proving Ground's YouTube channel
• Colin Furze
• Adam Savage's Tested
• The Hacksmith
• Alien Exoskeleton
• Lightsaber episode
• TRXL episode 018: ‘That Perfect Kind of Venn Diagram’, with Dane Stokes
• Project Anklebiter forum thread on 914 World
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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In this special replay episode, Dane Stokes of ZGF Architects joins the podcast to talk about his journey into architecture, being a 'computer person', design computation and automation, the importance of making things and working with your hands, custom fabrication, one-button buildings, having kids and failure, and much more.

Links

• YourDesk University with Dane Stokes
• Rhino.Inside by McNeel
• AIA Technology and Practice community (TAP)
• Colin Furze (YouTube)
• Dane's website
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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In this special replay episode, Eric Reinholdt of 30X40 Design Workshop joins the podcast to talk about why he started his YouTube channel, the keys to being productive, why getting away from architecture helps his process, the importance of making things, turning sources into resources, and much more.

Links

• 30x40 Design Workshop - Eric's web site
• Eric's YouTube channel
• A Choice to Make
• Evan's YouTube channel
• Archispeak at CONSTRUCT - YouTube as a productivity tool
• Roosevelt's "The Man in the Arena"
• Eric's books
• Ira Glass on one's taste exceeding one's ability
• Steve Jobs on connecting the dots
• Dieter Rams
• Werner Herzog and his Masterclass on Filmmaking
• Peter Zumthor
• Making versus managing
• Five Finger Death Punch
• In Flames (Swedish melodic death metal)
• Nils Frahm
• Coheed and Cambria
• Derek Sivers podcast
• Tom Hegen - photographer of impossible landscapes
• FIRE movement - Financial Independence, Retire Early
• The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
• Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Oliver David (OD) Krieg of Intelligent City joins the podcast to talk about topics at the intersection of computational design, robotic fabrication, and turn-key urban housing as a product. We begin with OD’s journey from school at ICD in Germany to where he is currently at Intelligent City, the value and benefits of bottom-up as opposed to top-down initiatives, moving away from project thinking to a product company, navigating risk versus reward in manufacturing, design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) and industrialized construction, prefab in relation to mass timber highrise, density, housing, sustainability, and carbon neutrality, where parametric design fits into the process, the definition of parametric manufacturing and mass customization, what it’s like building an industry from scratch, building architecture on top of tech in relation to a tech-first company (versus a project-first or architecture-first company), and why systematization must occur before automation.

Links

• OD on LinkedIn
• OD on Twitter
• OD on Instagram
• OD’s website (highly recommended!)
• Finger-jointed plate panel pavilion
• Intelligent City website
• Intelligent City on LinkedIn
• Intelligent City on Twitter
• Intelligent City on Instagram
• CAD’s Boring Future and Why it’s Exciting by Daniel Davis (re: the fat middle)
• Additional TRXL episodes referenced in the conversation:
• TRXL 063 - ‘The Thicc Middle’, with Daniel Davis
• TRXL 100 - ‘Negative Compound Interest’, with Paul Wintour
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
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Anthony Frausto-Robledo of Architosh joins the podcast to talk about two of his recent articles highlighting Autodesk. The first article is an interview with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost and the topic is their Autodesk University announcement of the next generation industry cloud platform for AEC called Forma. The second article is about the recent Nordic Open Letter penned by several significant architectural associations that was recently delivered to Autodesk’s CEO regarding Revit development and value as subscription costs have continued to rise. We also discuss a bit of Disruption Theory, network effects and positive externalities, switching costs and the sunk cost fallacy, how academia fits into the puzzle of technology training and the profession’s expectations, how technology developers fit into the puzzle of professional practice operations in regards to dependency on the tech to fulfill business deliverables, dominance and power, Superman syndrome, and a short lesson in railroad track gauges.

Links

• Anthony on LinkedIn
• Anthony on Twitter
• Architosh website
• Anthony's free Xpresso email newsletter
• Architosh on LinkedIn
• Architosh on Instagram
• Autodesk Begins New Era for Future of Architecture (Architosh)
• The Revit Open Letter Through the Lens of QWERTY-Nomics (Architosh)
• Nordic Open Letter (AEC Mag)
• European Open Letter (AEC Mag)
• Clayton Christensen's theory on innovative disruption (Wikipedia)
• Sunk cost fallacy explained
• Economist Paul A. David's landmark Clio and the Economics of QWERTY
• European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) position paper on lack of competition in the AEC software industry
• How to lose a monopoly (Benedict Evans)
• Nobody Gets Fired For Buying IBM (Forbes)
• A History of Track Gauge
• Why BART system uses wider gauge
• Previous TRXL episodes featuring Anthony:
• TRXL 012 – ‘Force Multipliers’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo
• TRXL 022 – ‘Turbo Boost Mood’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo
• TRXL 023 – ‘One More Thing’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Gabe Paez of Autodesk joins the podcast to talk about the intersection of humans and immersive technologies, the magic of experiencing ideas together, shared reality, the difficulty of change in relation to new tools and workflows, the value of working in different ways, the (controversial) notion of having fun at work, Extended Reality (XR) as it relates to remote work, shortening the distance between an idea and an experience, experiential tools, the value of collaboration, synchronous and asynchronous work on projects, interactive and manipulatable environments, persistence of virtual environments, and more.

Links

• Gabe on LinkedIn
• Gabe on Twitter
• Autodesk on LinkedIn
• Autodesk on Twitter
• Autodesk on Instagram
• Autodesk Extended Reality (XR)
• The Wild website
• IrisVR website
• TRXL 065: ‘Designing the Designer’, with Andreea Cojocaru
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Ian Janicki of Homestead joins the podcast to talk about what architecture schools have been and still are focused on versus what opportunities exist because of recent changes in legislation (California’s SB 9), the importance of infill—especially for solving the housing crisis, why architects should consider learning real estate, how to make more developers, entrepreneurship in the architectural profession, making the case for why we should be wrapping our collective heads around the potential of architecture as product and how to scale an idea to affect change, how to protect a business to avoid what Ian calls “the lumpiness of the profession”, NIMBY-ism and YIMBY-ism, and more.

Links

• Ian’s Calendly
• Architect & Developer: A Guide to Self-Initiating Projects by James Petty AIA (Amazon)
• Otto ADU website
• California Senate Bill 9 (The California Home Act)
• Ian on LinkedIn
• Ian on Twitter
• Homestead website
• Homestead on Twitter
• Homestead on LinkedIn
• Previous TRXL episodes referenced in the conversation:
• 046: ‘The Moment’, with Ian Janicki
• 067: ‘Ignoring the Warning Signs’, with Samuel Schneider of Homestead
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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