The Sawtooth Chart Was Never the Enemy
📰 The sawtooth was never the enemy. Phil Read makes the case that the jagged stopping points everyone spent twenty years trying to smooth away were where judgment got applied, and asks what replaces them now.
Leadership Edge
What Free Building Codes Actually Cost
📰 Two brothers put the building codes online in 2016. A year later the lawsuits started and never stopped. Garrett Reynolds on what it actually costs to keep the law free, and why the hardest part was never the software.
The Crit That Wasn't About AI
📰 Olson Kundig put 300 people in a room and asked what wastes their time. One rule: don't call it an AI meeting. The lists came back honest, and a big share of the complaints already had a fix sitting inside the firm.
Getting Paid to Carry the Risk You Keep Avoiding
📰 The industry spent decades shedding risk. Håvard Vasshaug thinks that instinct is killing the profession's upside, and the firms taking risk back on are ending up light years ahead. The case for more crazy ones in AEC.
Building for Four Million Architects
📰 Why does a software founder frame his entire company around helping architects build spaces where people fall in love? Mariusz Hermansdorfer's answer starts with 13 years inside a 20,000-person firm.
Define Your Value Before Someone Else Does
📰 In this edition, explore how AI might reclaim architecture’s purpose by capturing process over paperwork, redefining value before owners dictate it, and building tools that empower every skill level.
Architects Didn't Lose Control of CA. They Defaulted It.
📰 Architects often lose control of construction administration (CA) by default, forcing senior staff into low‑value data entry. AI can automate the admin tasks helping firms reclaim ownership, boost efficiency, and protect liability.