242: Designing for 100 Years… in 100 Seconds?
I asked the same partners you heard last episode two questions back to back. When a vendor says AI, do they mean autocomplete, a copilot, or something that acts on its own, and does the distinction ma...
24 Sep 2h 26min
241: From Autocomplete to Agent: Where AEC Actually Is
Every company in this arc has AI in their marketing. So I asked all of them the same question: in a real firm today, what can it actually do, and what can't it?Michael Jansen and Prasanta Bose at Twin...
17 Sep 2h 20min
240: I've Got to Get My Project Out on Friday
Two questions close out the BIM 2.0 arc. When a tool generates a design for you, where does its output stop and your judgment start? And what does interoperability actually deliver once you strip away...
3 Sep 1h 59min
239: You're Not Going Home Early
Episode one ended with the pitch: new tools give architects their day back. Episode two asks the harder question. If a firm stops running one platform and starts running ten, what happens to twenty ye...
27 Aug 3h 7min
238: Half Your Day Isn't Design
The first episode of The Next AEC Tech Stack opens on the number nobody wants to say out loud. Randall Stevens of AVAIL puts the mundane overhead of an architect's day at somewhere near fifty percent,...
20 Aug 1h 38min
237: 'The Interns Will Have Interns', with Phil Read
Phil Read joins the podcast to talk about where human judgment belongs in an AI-assisted design process. We explore his case for the infamous sawtooth diagram (the thing BIM was supposed to eliminate)...
14 Aug 1h 27min
236: 'No One Can Own the Law', with Garrett Reynolds
Garrett Reynolds joins the podcast to talk about UpCodes' decade-long fight to keep building codes free and public. We explore the string of lawsuits UpCodes has faced from the International Code Coun...
11 Aug 1h 22min
235: 'How Olson Kundig Scaled AI Adoption Across a 300-Person Firm', with Marlene Chen and Blair Payson
Marlene Chen and Blair Payson join the podcast to talk about how a firm known for design, not technology, actually puts new tools to work. We explore the office-wide crit they ran to surface friction ...
28 Juli 1h 19min
