In the May 10, 2011 episode of the Project Idealism podcast, Ryan Singer, Product Manager at 37 Signals, relates an anecdote originally told by one of Pixar's founding fathers, Ed Catmull.   In a 2007...

Architect magazine knocks it out of the park in a couple of recent arcticles and interviews. Are we as architects a service profession, or are we sculptors, artists, auteurs? In an opinion piece...

Architectural education focuses (rightly) on teaching design, but should that be to the almost complete exclusion of basic business knowledge? Architects need to know not only how a project is financed...

For those recently laid off - if you haven't seen the 1/2 hour movie "Lemonade" it's definitely worth your time. It focuses on layoffs in the advertising industry, but the overall message is inspirational...

Jason Fried on "Making Money off your By-Products" from Carsonified on Vimeo. From the world of webdesign and web applications comes an excellent reminder to any business.  When you create the product...

I was recently involved in an interview for a new project with a client with whom my firm has been working for the last 25 years. We have designed all their major buildings, overseen several modernizations...

Too often in recent history architects have been sidelined, drawing pretty pictures and avoiding the risks of construction while contractors, legal professionals and construction managers increase their...

"An architect is a generalist, not a specialist" ..."An architect must know enough about each discipline to negotiate and synthesize competing demands while honoring the needs of the client and the...

Ethan Kaplan , Vice President of Technology at at Warner Bros. Records made an intriguing comment in the Mahalo Daily video 95 - at 2:32. "Everything of value digitally is about the value of experience...