Foresight &
Intelligence
Essays, research, and perspectives from senior design leaders on the future of the profession.

The building sector currently contributes nearly 40% of global energy-related carbon emissions (World Green Building Council, 2023), highlig…

By interrogating the nature of architectural education, we can investigate opportunities for the discipline of architecture to engage cultur…

DesignIntelligence (DI): We’re talking with Craig Goldblatt, an inspirational keynote speaker and international guru on reaching human poten…

DesignIntelligence (DI): We’re honored to have Dena Prastos, AIA, a woman driven to transform the built world at the water’s edge. As founde…

DesignIntelligence (DI): We’re delighted to have Roger Krulak, president and founder of FullStack Modular (FSM), a man determined to solve t…

In this article I offer some insights from my current work-in-progress, an urban anthology book entitled: “Keynote Conversations – 100 inter…

Artificial intelligence and immersive technologies hold enormous potential to help practitioners design buildings that work in symbiosis wit…

I was once asked at a public meeting to define the different roles of architects and engineers (a more connected relationship in the U.K. th…

Ever since the early cave settlements, building was about protection from enemies and the environment. The Middle Ages saw the zenith of def…

Not that long ago, architects focused principally on the design of static objects called buildings. Primary attention was given to the inter…

[THIS ESSAY WAS COMPILED FROM PODCASTS ORIGINALLY PRESENTED ON “THIS IS DESIGNINTELLIGENCE” IN 2023.] Conditions Leadership trust results fr…

Some concepts are so essential to being human, so deeply engrained in our daily lives, they become invisible. We use these ideas frequently,…
