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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.

Listen to the founder of the Hip Hop Architecture Camp trace the influence of the cultural movement from Le Corbusier to his personal, ongoing projects.

Listen to the co-founder of 4RM+ULA, in St. Paul, Minn., detail the impact of systemic racism of black architects, call out the willfully ignorant, and explain the underpinnings of "Minnesota Nice." This episode references the 2019 NAACP report "The Twin Cities Economic Inclusion Plan." A link to the report can be found in the June 4 Washington Post op-ed "It’s hard to hear ‘Minnesota Nice’ without undertones of irony and despair," by journalist Michele L. Norris. Read more about Garrett and his three-step process for design firms to take tangible steps toward equitable and inclusive outcomes and the impact of the Twin Cities riots on 4RM+ULA's own projects in "James Garrett Jr. Lists Actions for Architects, Institutions, and Business Owners to Combat Systemic Racism," by ARCHITECT Mind & Matter columnist Blaine Brownell, AIA. This conversation also references a June 5 online forum organized by AIA Minnesota titled "Response for Damaged Properties in Minneapolis and St. Paul."

Listen to the father–son duo and respective past and current CEOs of Moody Nolan reflect on their road to success in a profession with disproportionately few people of color.

In this podcast episode, founder Tei Carpenter discusses her shifting approach to residential and public infrastructure design.

Jeanne Gang discusses her firm's recently completed project in Brooklyn, N.Y., and examines how creating supportive space for first responders can serve the community as a whole.

In this episode of our podcast, the founders of this Brooklyn, N.Y.–based firm share how they are navigating the COVID-19 crisis and what work is keeping them motivated.

In this podcast episode, founding principal and executive director Michael Murphy discusses his firm's Covid-19 response, as well as how architects can use design to help fight the pandemic.

Principal Keith Hempel describes how his firm became the largest to satisfy the most recent energy reduction goal of the AIA 2030 Commitment.

In this podcast episode, the Chicago-based principals Paola Aguirre Serrano and Dennis Milam discuss the firm's projects that aim to unify.

In this podcast, AS+GG partner Gordon Gill, FAIA, and sustainability director Christopher Drew explain the origins and methodology of their firm's newest study, Residensity: A Carbon Analysis of Residential Typologies, and discuss the questions that arose during their research—questions that often outnumbered the conclusions.