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Climate, Health, Equity: One Firm’s Default
Corey Squire and Amy Donohue join Evan Troxel and Candace Kitchen to talk about how Bora Architecture
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The Performance Mindset: How SmithGroup Approaches Sustainable Design
In this episode of Innovation By Design, Evan Troxel and Candace Kitchen talk with Chris Heine, an architect and strategist at SmithGroup, about how sustainability has shifted from an optional add-on to a core design requirement.
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Designing with Immersion: Storytelling, Training, and Spatial Understanding
In this episode of Innovation By Design, Evan Troxel and Candace Kitchen talk with architect and educator Ming Tang, director of the XR Lab at the University of Cincinnati…
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Solving for E — How Framework-E Is Rewriting the Rules of Practice
In this episode, hosts Evan Troxel and Candace Kitchen sit down with Jerry Attia and Pierre Roberson of Framework E to unpack what it looks like to intentionally design a practice, not just projects.
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Architecture’s Technical Foundation: Why Every Designer Needs to Understand Specifications
Specifications are where design intent becomes buildable reality. In this episode, Evan Troxel and Candace Kitchen talk with Sherry Harbaugh…
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Design as Decision: Dustin Schafer on Risk, Value, and Outcome-Based Services
In this episode, the conversation with Dustin centers on a core argument: as AI advances, it will dramatically reduce the cost of production work (routing, sizing, checking, documentation), but it won’t automatically create “good” design.
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Experience Design in Practice: Sandra Olave on Memory, Culture, and the Built Environment
In this conversation, Evan Troxel and Candace Kitchen sit down with Sandra Olave, chair of Interior Design at the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit.
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Designing with Simulations: A New Era for Architecture
Summary In this episode of Innovation by Design, Angelos Chronis explores the growing role of AI in architecture and urban design. We talk about how…
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Details Early and Often: An Interview with Amy Baker
Amy Baker explains why details matter early in projects, the importance of live conversations with design teams and technology as a force multiplier.
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Neural Architecture — How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Design
Evan Troxel and Candace Kitchen sit down with Dr. Matias del Campo, architect, theorist, and one of the leading voices at the intersection of architecture and artificial intelligence.
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