Foresight &
Intelligence

By Thomas VonierFAIA RIBAImmediate Past President, International Union of ArchitectsFormer President, American Institute of Architects DAY 1…

A structural engineer skipped one recalculation. A year later, 114 people died. Technologist Patrick Scannell on what that has to do with ho…

Design creates enormous value. Scott Simpson, FAIA, principal at five architecture firms and CEO of two over a five-decade career, has spent…

The crowded, dilapidated buildings in the city started to disappear. Scaffolding went up overnight. Streets that had been lined with laundry…

“A good puzzle would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub.” — James Joyce, Ulysses On June 16, the streets of Dublin fill with an unusua…

We use the word significance with ease. An award is a significant achievement. A shift in the market is a significant warning. A personal de…

We live in a time of confusion. As truth is increasingly treated as subjective, the notion of a shared or universal truth has eroded. Withou…

If everything is essential, then nothing is. We use the word essential constantly. In meetings, strategies, and briefs, things are described…

It’s not what AI cannot do. AI is doing what we thought only humans could do At Wimbledon in 2023, IBM deployed an AI announcer that doesn’t…

60,000. That is how many workers Foxconn replaced with robots at its Kunshan factory in 2016. Sixty thousand people made redundant by machin…

Over the course of 2024, we have looked at Connections, Conviction and Convergence in our cascading examination of critical thinking among t…

As we consider the “now” and soon arriving “then”, we are confronted with our own lack of initiative regarding the consequential questions w…