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We discuss some recent adventures in home ownership and compare notes on a list of places we have and haven’t been to from an architectural perspective.

Topic We do a debrief on the AIA National Conference on Architecture in Chicago both as an a attendee and as an exhibitor, what it was like being in the presence of our people again, thoughts about cities and their intersection with “the conference”, health outcomes from the conference (yep), and a quick tour of some Frank Lloyd Wright projects (because when in Rome/Oak Park…). Links Branch Technology Unity Temple by Frank Lloyd Wright Oak Park, Illinois projects by FLW Hollyhock House by FLW (Wikipedia) Ennis House by FLW (Wikipedia) Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

Topic What lies beneath the surface of a seemingly simple project, that once built, doesn’t perform as required? We also get into the common request for projects to be “future proofed” by clients because why not? These are just some of the things that are part of the day-to-day of an architect. Sponsor Start implementing powerful systems for the profitability you need and the freedom you want. Join Douglas Tieger, FAIA for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass, brought to you by BQE CORE. Every live masterclass session is free and includes AIA continuing education credit. Register now at bqe.com/masterclass. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

Topic A conversation about architects, school design, funding, symptoms versus sources of problems, and gun policy in America. Links AIA Statement: This is a time of reflection ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (The Onion) Start implementing powerful systems for the profitability you need and the freedom you want. Join Douglas Tieger, FAIA for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass, brought to you by BQE CORE. Every live masterclass session is free and includes AIA continuing education credit. Register now at bqe.com/masterclass. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

Topic Topics: SpaceX’s Starlink roaming internet service for the ability to truly work from anywhere and we dig into a listener email about mentoring in the adjacent industry of environmental design in game development. Links Starlink Starlink Portability for RV’s Graphic Standards website TRXL Podcast Start implementing powerful systems for the profitability you need and the freedom you want. Join Douglas Tieger, FAIA for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass, brought to you by BQE CORE. Every live masterclass session is free and includes AIA continuing education credit. Register now at bqe.com/masterclass. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

Topic We discuss Cormac’s big news 🎉 and the various type of places we as architects have for making including sketchbooks, apps, coding, and physical workshops. What are your favorite places for making? Let us know on Twitter (@archispk) or in the comments for this episode at https://archispeakpodcast.com Links The Craftsman (tv show trailer on YouTube) Sponsor Start implementing powerful systems for the profitability you need and the freedom you want. Join Douglas Tieger, FAIA for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass, brought to you by BQE CORE. Every live masterclass session is free and includes AIA continuing education credit. Register now at bqe.com/masterclass. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

Topic What do concept cars, skateboarding, and architecture have in common? It’s all about ‘the process’, finding new ways to suffer, expertise vs generalization, all the pieces of the puzzle, and thinking about how we evolve the built environment. Links Isuzu VehiCROSS (Wikipedia) Pontiac Aztek (Wikipedia) The Pontiac Aztek Survived Walter White in Breaking Bad; Why didn’t It Survive in the Auto Market? (MotorBiscuit) PITCHING A TENT In My Pontiac Aztek Factory Overlanding Package (YouTube) Dymaxion house (Wikipedia) Buckminster Fuller (Wikipedia) The History of Sears Kit Homes Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (YouTube) The SCI-Arc toxic culture topic on Archispeak: episode 260 & episode 262 TRXL Podcast Start implementing powerful systems for the profitability you need and the freedom you want. Join Douglas Tieger, FAIA for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass, brought to you by BQE CORE. Every live masterclass session is free and includes AIA continuing education credit. Register now at bqe.com/masterclass. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

Topic Music producer & YouTuber Rick Beato had some observations about Gen Z in a recent video on his channel. In this episode, we compare his theory to our experiences raising kids, and then draw parallels to architecture. We also throw down about the ‘data versus wisdom’ tug-of-war that’s occurring in the industry. Links Rick Beato - Why Gen Z Doesn’t Care About Music (YouTube) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard website Rolodex (Wikipedia) Sponsor Start implementing powerful systems for the profitability you need and the freedom you want. Join Douglas Tieger, FAIA for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass, brought to you by BQE CORE. Every live masterclass session is free and includes AIA continuing education credit. Register now at bqe.com/masterclass. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

Topic We get a house-hunting update from Cormac, share some of our experiences designing science buildings, and also touch on project delivery methods, quality contractors, and change orders. Links ”We’ll See” parable Contractor's Guide to Change Orders (2nd Edition) (Amazon) @CheriseLakeside on Twitter Sponsor Start implementing powerful systems for the profitability you need and the freedom you want. Join Douglas Tieger, FAIA for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass, brought to you by BQE CORE. Every live masterclass session is free and includes AIA continuing education credit. Register now at bqe.com/masterclass. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

Topic We get an update on Cormac’s house hunting saga and follow up on our recent conversation regarding the SCI-Arc Basecamp panel discussion and the apparent lack of conversation within the architectural community about the cultural factors that were surfaced which should be widely addressed. Links Basecamp: How to be in an Office (by SCI-Arc on YouTube) SCI-Arc LowLights - Basecamp: How to be in an Office (video synopsis of the spicy parts by Anon505 on YouTube) “We all make our own choices” by The Hustle Architect (@VitruviusGrind on Twitter) NAAB - National Architectural Accrediting Board NCARB - National Council of Architectural Registration Boards AIA - American Institute of Architects Sponsor Start implementing powerful systems for the profitability you need and the freedom you want. Join Douglas Tieger, FAIA for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass, brought to you by BQE CORE. Every live masterclass session is free and includes AIA continuing education credit. Register now at bqe.com/masterclass. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

Topic Heavy sigh; deep breath. Cormac’s house hunting adventure continues. We also observe the architectural profession’s identity crisis in which the problem of it lacking a communicable, easily understandable value proposition to the market is ever apparent. Sponsor Start implementing powerful systems for the profitability you need and the freedom you want. Join Douglas Tieger, FAIA for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass, brought to you by BQE CORE. Every live masterclass session is free and includes AIA continuing education credit. Register now at bqe.com/masterclass. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

Topic Evan and Cormac discuss the recent controversies surrounding and following a live event (and corresponding live stream on YouTube) in SCI-Arc’s Basecamp lecture series entitled “How to be in an Office” on March 25, 2022 featuring panelists Tom Oyler (Oyler Wu), Marikka Trotter (Tom Wiscombe Architecture), and Margaret Griffin (Griffin Enright Architects). Topics in this discussion include education, internships, firm culture, studio culture, scholarships, business models, toxic culture, exploitative environments, suffering for the art, work/life balance, disconnected “leadership”, and more. Links Basecamp: How to be in an Office (by SCI-Arc on YouTube) SCI-Arc LowLights - Basecamp: How to be in an Office (video synopsis of the spicy parts by Anon505 on YouTube) “We all make our own choices” by The Hustle Architect (@VitruviusGrind on Twitter) Controversy at SCI-Arc over labor practices leads to faculty members placed on leave. Isolated incident or a wake up call for the industry at large? by Katherine Guimapang (Archinect) What is going on at SCI-Arc? by Audrey Wachs (The Architect’s Newspaper) SCI-Arc town hall leaked audio files SCI-Arc town hall response from SCI-Arc CEO Hernán Díaz Alonso (Archinect) SCI-Arc public salary records 2019 (Archinect) Scholarship misconduct allegations: SCI-Arc Faces a Reckoning Amid Allegations of Faculty Misconduct (Architectural Record)Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak Sponsor Start implementing powerful systems for the profitability you need and the freedom you want. Join Douglas Tieger, FAIA for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass, brought to you by BQE CORE. Every live masterclass session is free and includes AIA continuing education credit. Register now at bqe.com/masterclass.

Topic Cormac is very busy house shopping and therefore taking multiple road trips to the new location, so naturally, he has some stories about the current housing market landscape. We also discuss the state of truthiness (or lack thereof) in online real estate listings, both written and photographically.

Topic We discuss the recent death of Christopher Alexander, his infamous book A Pattern Language, the newly released The Adam Project movie and architecture as a character, Cormac’s big news, and more. Links The Adam Project (Netflix) Gimme: The House from ‘The Adam Project’ Christopher Alexander (Wikipedia) Pattern Language website The book: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander (Amazon) Fallingwater weekly livestream: A Closer Look Eames lounge chair (Wikipedia) Sponsor Start implementing powerful systems for the profitability you need and the freedom you want. Join Douglas Tieger, FAIA for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass, brought to you by BQE CORE. Every live masterclass session is free and includes AIA continuing education credit. Register now at bqe.com/masterclass. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

Topic Evan stages an intervention because of Cormac’s fountain pen hoarding and then the hosts open the storybook on past projects where teammates took too much liberty in the decision-making process. Links Lamy Safari fountain pens (official website | buy on Amazon) Noodler’s Ink - Blue Black, of course (Amazon) Field Notes reporter’s notebooks (official website | buy on Amazon) Shape the Future of Architecture. You have the power to influence future updates to how architects are educated, trained, and licensed. Visit ncarb.org/AOP to take NCARB’s profession-wide Analysis of Practice survey and ensure your voice is heard. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

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 Sponsor Shape the Future of Architecture. You have the power to influence future updates to how architects are educated, trained, and licensed. Visit ncarb.org/AOP to take NCARB’sprofession-wide Analysis of Practice survey and ensure your voice is heard. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

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) Sponsor Shape the Future of Architecture. You have the power to influence future updates to how architects are educated, trained, and licensed. Visit ncarb.org/AOP to take NCARB’sprofession-wide Analysis of Practice survey and ensure your voice is heard. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

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 Sponsor Shape the Future of Architecture. You have the power to influence future updates to how architects are educated, trained, and licensed. Visit ncarb.org/AOP to take NCARB’sprofession-wide Analysis of Practice survey and ensure your voice is heard. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

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) Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak

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) Sponsor Enscape is a real-time rendering and VR tool for the AEC market. It empowers design workflows by plugging into building modeling software and turning the models into immersive 3D experiences. Visit https://enscape3d.com/archispeak to sign up for a free 14-day trial. Listen and Subscribe to Archispeak