Foresight &
Intelligence
Essays, research, and perspectives from senior design leaders on the future of the profession.
Cloud-based Digital Twin Platform at CO Architects – Images courtesy CO Architects What Is a Digital Twin? Nowadays, many of us feel technol…
Language determines the boundaries of the built environment. As a core component of human cognition, words shape the aspirations, intentions…
After years of asking firm leaders their priorities, the same themes consistently rise to the top: Fill the pipeline and win more work. Crea…
“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality … a single garment of…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has powered its way into the world’s minds in the last two years, largely due to the emergence of ChatGPT and L…
As a child I well remember the fear my grandmother expressed for “the workhouse.” One of fourteen children born into a rural community, she …
The famous Aesop fable “The Tortoise and the Hare” has garnered varying interpretations over the years, but the most widely recognized one i…
…to remain relevant and resilient. Some chose to weave more than one theme into threads of their choosing. The common throughline in all thi…
Finding a list of architects who’ve held public office in the United States can be tricky. Despite laudable efforts by groups like the AIA’s…
We humans are a complex assemblage of values. Values are those internal compasses, seemingly imperceptible, that direct the living of our li…
Abstract: Monti argues the architecture profession stands to benefit from an educational model that emphasizes the foundational values and e…
For several weeks I have been making tiny adjustments to our grandfather clock. A threaded wheel permits me to raise or lower the bob and, t…
