Learning from the bottom up
It might be time for the architecture profession’s leaders to starting learning form the ground up.
December 3, 2025
It might be time for the architecture profession’s leaders to starting learning form the ground up.
There’s two main ways to stand out. Be different. or Be better. Copying is the route to unexceptional.
If there’s value misalignment there’ll be no action or attention. When something’s value isn’t recognised, it won’t be prioritised.
There’s many takes on AI in architecture and another might be the last thing we need but here’s some constructive questions that might flip the script…
It might not be possible, but what if it was possible and you didn’t commit the time to thinking about it by asking the right questions?
All the best change strategies will fail in the face of a poor culture. Good culture is essential for the future focus of your architectural practice.
The second in my series on rethinking architectural practice for agility, adaptability and resilience. Architectural practices are confronting a fast changing landscape and now their biggest design challenge is the practice itself.
Architectural practices are confronting a fast changing landscape and now their biggest design challenge is the practice itself.
The tension between preparing for the future and knowing the future is a space in which interesting insights can emerge.
An edited version of my talk to the APEN Symposium for the session – Professional ways of being: Embracing a future (architectural) self
