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DesignIntelligence (Michael LeFevre, DI:) We’re talking with Lynn Simon, FAIA, LEED Fellow, a principal and the West Sustainability Services…

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the average hospital consumes more than 100 times as much energy as a standar…

Editor’s Note:DesignIntelligence’s theme for Q4 2024 is “Consequential Questions.” To address our theme, we call on a presenter from our rec…

Modernism, viewed as a style in addition to a movement, has a fascinating and tumultuous history. Early modernism’s design ethos had an imag…

Most of us would consider ourselves visionary leaders with ambitious goals to grow our firms, positively impact the communities we serve and…

DesignIntelligence / Michael LeFevre (DI): We’re talking with Adrian Parr Zaretsky, dean of the College of Design at the University of Orego…

The light of western democracy may not yet have dimmed, but it is certainly flickering, and the closing quarter of 2024 will have a profound…

Throughout history, humans have gravitated toward community for safety, companionship and efficiency. As communities grew, the need for orga…

If there’s anything capitalism and the climate have in common, it is a sense of urgency. We’re all told they are both, in equal but opposing…

As I reflect, I’ve only made a handful of significant, conscious, major decisions over the course of my life. Amazingly, each worked out for…

Design is one of the few endeavors that generates more answers than questions. For any given program or budget, there are always multiple po…

But how do we approach this “obligation to endure” as she called it. As leaders, we face many competing interests. Those of our firms versus…