Best Practices

05/26/05 Why the Future Won’t Need Today’s Architects What’s next for successful architecture, engineering, and design practices? This is the question we will explore more deeply in the upcoming months in DesignIntelligence. We believe that firms will not only be faster and smarter but also wiser and more independent. James P. Cramer
05/26/05 The Importance of Being Bucky (Buckminster Fuller) An Unorthodox Primer on How to Be Great. As a 20th century futuristic practitioner and iconic philosopher, “Bucky” Fuller was and is, an architect’s architect and a scientist’s scientist. Andrew Charles Yanoviak
05/26/05 Who’s on the Team? Rapid Role Changes in Design Ed. note: This is Gerry Hammond’s perspective on how design roles have changed in the past decade. Gerald S. Hammond
05/15/04 Informed Cooperation Beats Friction, Outsourcing, Lawsuits Let there be no doubt, [the deep divide between architects and interior designers] exists—and the reasons are deeply rooted and sustained by our universities, professional societies and practitioners. Ed Friedrichs
04/15/04 Some setbacks are inevitable, but visionaries are usually optimists One of the obvious perils of being an optimist happens when a discovery leads to extreme disappointment. James P. Cramer
03/15/04 A Grudge Match Made in College? Having spent an extensive amount of time over the years with deans of both architecture and interior design schools, I can tell you that any survey of the skills of recent graduates will bring howls of protest. Ed Friedrichs
02/15/04 Metrics of Value: Measuring How Design Adds Up Ambitious firms may claim all four as core values.
The important point is that to be successful, your firm needs to be distinguished in some way. What makes it special? What drives the bus? Scott Simpson, FAIA
08/15/03 The Odds-on Favorite for next AIA Firm of the Year Award For 2003 it is most likely that another small to mid-size firm will be named if the patterns and cycles remain as they have over the last 50 years…
05/15/03 How Informed is Your View of the Future? For our 8th Anniversary issue, we decided to ask leaders from widely different areas of the field—higher education, human behavioralists, designers and those who look at the long financial future for their firms.
04/01/03 Why Firms Grow in a Down Economy It is a myth that all firms are shrinking today. Look around your own community and you can spotlight firms who are growing. When we challenged the conventional wisdom, here is what we learned: James P. Cramer

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