TRXL

Special guest Tyler Goss joins the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on what it means to be a manager, optimizing the industry, the baggage parties bring to the table, being a solutions provider, and more!

Links

• Tyler on LinkedIn
• Tyler on Twitter
• Construction Physics Substack by Brian Potter
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Twinmotion is a real-time rendering solution used by architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to create high-quality imagery, client presentations, and interactive experiences that help communicate your BIM data and design ideas, fast. Visit twinmotion.link/trxl and try Twinmotion for free.

Special guests Je'Nen Chastain and Evelyn Lee of the Practice Disrupted podcast join me on this special ‘crossover‘ episode to talk about why we're all doing this podcasting thing and why we're memorializing these conversations on the internet.

Links

• Practice Disrupted podcast
• Je‘Nen on LinkedIn
• Je‘Nen on Twitter
• Apostophe Consulting website
• Evelyn on LinkedIn
• Evelyn on Twitter
• Practice of Architecture website
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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Twinmotion is a real-time rendering solution used by architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to create high-quality imagery, client presentations, and interactive experiences that help communicate your BIM data and design ideas, fast. Visit twinmotion.link/trxl and try Twinmotion for free.

Special guest Tom Kluyskens of Trimble joins the podcast to talk about his circuitous career path including a decade in the visual effect industry, computational design as designing logic versus form, the different approaches in the process of creating a film versus buildings, making digital tools that users reveal the unknown potential of, and more.

Links

• Tom on LinkedIn
• Gregg Fleishman
• Book recommendation: Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling
• Hypergraph overview
• Weta Digital (Wikipedia)
• MASSIVE (software) (Wikipedia)
• SketchUp Live Components & Materia:
• https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search/?searchTab=model&isLiveComponent=true
• https://help.sketchup.com/en/sketchup-live-components
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN3J8H4ZVtts8NaNIikqYNw
• https://twitter.com/Trimble_Materia
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

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• Email

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Twinmotion is a real-time rendering solution used by architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to create high-quality imagery, client presentations, and interactive experiences that help communicate your BIM data and design ideas, fast. Visit twinmotion.link/trxl and try Twinmotion for free.

Special guest Ellen Bensky of Turner Fleischer Architects joins the podcast to talk about how she and her team built a teaching organization and a learning culture, their experience in how that effectively works within the construct of a firm, the benefits that result when a firm doesn't require its staff to have utilization targets, the difference between knowledge and data, who should teach in an organization, the importance of feedback loops, and more.

Links

• Ellen Bensky on LinkedIn
• Turner Fleischer Architects website
• Turner Fleischer on LinkedIn
• Turner Fleischer on Twitter
• Ellen's KA Connect 2018 Presentation: The Hidden Benefits of Developing a Teaching Organization
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

Connect with Evan

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• Email

Sponsors

ArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.

Twinmotion is a real-time rendering solution used by architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to create high-quality imagery, client presentations, and interactive experiences that help communicate your BIM data and design ideas, fast. Visit twinmotion.link/trxl and try Twinmotion for free.

Special guest Robert Yori of EnTech joins the podcast to talk about the annual Design Technology Summit (DTS) events, overarching themes and experience sharing, using empathic techniques when working through ways to engage leadership in their adoption and continued digital transformations, how to share and cross-pollinate those ideas to elevate the profession together, technology as a means to an end, working as a group to advance ideas across institutional silos, and more.

Links

• Robert Yori on LinkedIn
• Robert Yori on Twitter
• Design Technology Summit Events (DTS) Paper Drawings Need to Die! (Digital Built Week Seattle 2019) (Evan's YouTube) Getting caught in a downpour in St Louis! (Design Technology Summit, St. Louis 2018) (Evan's YouTube)
• BILT Events
• DBEI website
• AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community (TAP)
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

Connect with Evan

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• YouTube
• Email

Sponsors

ArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.

Twinmotion is a real-time rendering solution used by architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to create high-quality imagery, client presentations, and interactive experiences that help communicate your BIM data and design ideas, fast. Visit twinmotion.link/trxl and try Twinmotion for free.

On August 12, Monograph is hosting Section Cut, a virtual conference dedicated to firm owners and operation leaders. Hear from leaders at Lake|Flato, SOM, Workshop/APD, Colloqate, and more! Reserve a seat today by visiting https://sectioncut.com/?ref=trxl.

Special guest Randall Stevens of AVAIL joins the podcast to talk about some of the more difficult problems in AEC, the struggle of different team members having different incentives, assets and liabilities, vulnerability, and so much more.

Links

• Randall on LinkedIn
• AVAIL on LinkedIn
• AVAIL website
• AVAIL on Twitter
• The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Amazon | Bookshop)
• Building Content Summit (Facebook Group)
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

Connect with Evan

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
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• YouTube
• Email

Sponsors

ArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.

Twinmotion is a real-time rendering solution used by architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to create high-quality imagery, client presentations, and interactive experiences that help communicate your BIM data and design ideas, fast. Visit twinmotion.link/trxl and try Twinmotion for free.

On August 12, Monograph is hosting Section Cut, a virtual conference dedicated to firm owners and operation leaders. Hear from leaders at Lake|Flato, SOM, Workshop/APD, Colloqate, and more! Reserve a seat today by visiting https://sectioncut.com/?ref=trxl.

Special guests Joann Lui and George Valdes of Monograph join the podcast to talk about their passion for PracticeOps (AKA architectural practice operations), working on the business rather than in the business, the importance of building communities, the upcoming Section Cut conference, and more.

Links

• Joann Lui on LinkedIn
• George Valdes on LinkedIn
• George on Twitter
• Monograph website
• Monograph webinar series (fireside chats)
• Monograph job board
• Section Cut 2021 conference website (RSVP for it now for the August 12 online conference)
• Women Architects Collective (Facebook group)
• Architechie group (link to the Slack channel at the bottom of the page)
• TRXL 011: ‘I Did This on a Lark’, with George Valdes
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

Connect with Evan

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
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• YouTube
• Email

Sponsors

ArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.

Twinmotion is a real-time rendering solution used by architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to create high-quality imagery, client presentations, and interactive experiences that help communicate your BIM data and design ideas, fast. Visit twinmotion.link/trxl and try Twinmotion for free.

On August 12, Monograph is hosting Section Cut, a virtual conference dedicated to firm owners and operation leaders. Hear from leaders at Lake|Flato, SOM, Workshop/APD, Colloqate, and more! Reserve a seat today by visiting https://sectioncut.com/?ref=trxl.

Special guest Federico Negro of Canoa Supply joins the podcast to talk about how he traversed AEC to get where he is now. We also discuss delivering space as a product, architecture's failure to scale, burnout, health, our deep connections to making, and much more.

Links

• Federico Negro on LinkedIn
• Federico on Twitter
• Canoa Supply website
• the manifesto
• Parsons School of Design
• SHoP Architects
• Case
• WeWork
• TRXL 037: ‘The Space Doesn't Care’, with Lance Amato (Lance also works at Canoa)
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

Connect with Evan

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
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• YouTube
• Email

Sponsors

ArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.

Twinmotion is a real-time rendering solution used by architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to create high-quality imagery, client presentations, and interactive experiences that help communicate your BIM data and design ideas, fast. Visit twinmotion.link/trxl and try Twinmotion for free.

Special guests Ian Keough of Hypar and Clifton Harness of TestFit join me to talk about the evolution they've experienced in their different kinds of startups (platform versus product, respectively), and take us behind the scenes to share what it's like running companies, building teams, and building software as CEO's.

Other potential unused episode titles from our conversation: ‘A Whole Flotilla’ and ‘Feral Desire’ (thanks to Clifton), which are now going on the list of good names for bands.

Links

• Ian Keough
• Ian on twitter
• Ian's YouTube talk to the AIA Strategic Council
• TRXL podcast episode 003: ‘A Local Maxima’, with Ian Keough
• Hypar
• Hypar website
• Hypar's YouTube channel
• Clifton Harness
• Clifton on twitter
• Clifton's YouTube talk to the AIA Strategic Council
• TRXL podcast episode 005: ’BIM is a T-Rex‘, with Clifton Harness
• TestFit
• TestFit website
• eBook: 18 Ways to Increase Density in Multifamily Buildings
• TestFit's YouTube channel
• Bad Monkeys
• Case, Inc.
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

Connect with Evan

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Email

Sponsors

ArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.

Twinmotion is a real-time rendering solution used by architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to create high-quality imagery, client presentations, and interactive experiences that help communicate your BIM data and design ideas, fast. Visit twinmotion.link/trxl and try Twinmotion for free.

Special guest Aaron Maller of Parallax Team joins the podcast to talk about why he got into the Revit consulting business, building 'a' team versus building 'the' team, what constitutes "a total hot mess", and more.

Links

• Parallax Team website
• Parallax Product Page
• FOREground for Revit - new, real site tools for Revit (currently in development)
• Parallax Team on Twitter
• Aaron on LinkedIn
• Aaron on Twitter
• Tools mentioned:
• Notion
• Otter
• Descript
• Grain
• TRXL episode 028: ‘A (Robotic) Holiday Spectacular’, with Brian Ringley
• Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
• My YouTube channel

Connect with Evan

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• YouTube
• Email

Sponsor

ArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.