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.
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235: 'How Olson Kundig Scaled AI Adoption Across a 300-Person Firm', with Marlene Chen and Blair Payson
A conversation with Marlene Chen and Blair Payson about scaling AI adoption across a 300-person architecture firm by prioritizing culture, office-wide critiques, democratizing visualization, and managing change and software licensing.
Inside D5 Render's New Cesium Integration and AI Material Generator
I started a new format on TRXL called the Feature Spotlight. The idea is simple: live, hands-on, no slides, no pitch. Just a real look at what a tool actually does, driven by someone who knows it inside and out.
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The Expert Button Pushers Are Gone
📰 Jeff Mottle built CGarchitect into archviz’s global hub, then watched AI finish the democratization tools started years ago. This edition explores why “expert button pushers” are disappearing, why relationships win, and how AI breaks hourly billing in AEC.
229: Campfire Series - 'The CGarchitect Story', with Jeff Mottle
A conversation with Jeff Mottle about building CGarchitect from a side project into a 21‑year global hub, its sale to Chaos Group, his NVIDIA tenure, and the impact of AI on architectural visualization.
Leadership Edge: TRXL 184
Merger of Chaos and EvolveLab redefines AEC workflows, turning rendering into a design tool, not just a deliverable. AI-powered visualization democratizes the design process, while small teams drive outsized innovation through practitioner-centered development.
184: ‘Chaos Evolves’, with Stephan Sieber and Bill Allen
A conversation with Stephan Sieber and Bill Allen about exploring the merger between Chaos and EvolveLAB, leveraging AI tools for enhanced design processes, and emphasizing the need for architects to adapt to rapidly changing technology to stay relevant in the industry.