Hawaii Off-Grid ArchitectureHawaii off-grid architecture becomes a model for business, resilience, and community impact in this conversation with David Sellers. David shares how commercial fishing, technical systems, and environmental concerns shaped his path into architecture.He explains how Hawaii Off-Grid grew by combining design, engineering, renewable energy, and practical business thinking. This diverse model helped the firm support wildfire recovery, affordable housing, and pro bono work

In this episode, Professor Richard Green joins us. He's the Director and Chair of the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate, and he's been obsessed with data and cities since he was about nine years old. He's here with a counterintuitive finding. If you bought a house in the Detroit metropolitan area back in 1987, you did better financially than if you'd bought one in San Francisco and even beat the stock market. Not because Detroit went up more in value. It didn't. But

This week, David and Marina of FAME Architecture & Design are joined by Tyler Freres, Vice President of Sales at Freres Engineered Wood. The three discussed the origin of Freres Engineered Wood, the co-generation closed-loop system, the invention of Mass Plywood, CLT vs Mass Plywood Panel (MPP), using MPP in different climates, maintaining the quality of lumber, the process of working with Freres Engineered Wood, design & technical details, fire rating, speed of construction, best use case, common

We’re drowning in AI tools but starving for strategy, so we ask whether we’re using these tools to ship faster or to understand deeper. Jeff Gothelf proposes a lightweight canvas to cut through the feature-stuffing chaos, while Pavel Samsonov warns that our obsession with speed is killing real learning by bypassing the discomfort of challenging existing opinions. We also explore how design styles install mental categories in users' minds and debate the tension between high-performance visual

What can museums learn from underground raves, video games, and experimental music? In this episode of Matters of Experience, ACMI Director and CEO Seb Chan shares his remarkable journey from Sydney’s early electronic-music scene to leading one of the world’s most innovative museums of screen culture.Seb explores how immersive experiences can spark curiosity without excluding audiences, why visitors often know more than institutions about the media they love, and how museums can provide the context

Most of us were told the same thing. Make something every day, share it, and the people will come. But what happens when you do exactly that for years, the numbers stall, the platforms change the deal, and the thing you love starts to feel like homework for an algorithm? In this episode, we talk with illustrator, teacher, and author Tom Froese about building a very public career as a self-described introvert. It starts with camera presence and resting dad face, then turns into a bigger conver...

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Hello! This is Episode 426. This is Way #26 of the 44 Ways to Create Your Sustainable Home series, and we’re beginning Section Six: Choosing Materials, Fixtures and Finishes. Way #26 is: Choose for Longevity and Durability. [For all resources mentioned in this podcast and a free, downloadable PDF transcript, head to www.undercoverarchitect.com/426] The last couple of sections have been detail-heavy and chunkier episodes, especially as I’ve talked about the building envelope, because

I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that no one got into food blogging to write emails. But every blogger I know who has a stable, profitable business has one thing in common, and it's not their SEO strategy or their Instagram following. It's their email list. So I called in email marketing expert Liz Wilcox to help us fix that, because she makes email way less painful than you think it needs to be. Liz Wilcox is an email strategist and keynote speaker showing small businesses how to build online

After going to Australia in his early twenties - because Alan Wicker said, through the magic of Sunday evening television, that it was the most optimistic place on Earth - Guy Vickerstaff was called by a place called home. He came back to Scotland and eventually found his way into advertising the long way round, via market research, a direct marketing client, and a junior typographer role where he quietly decided he could do better than what he was seeing and just started doing it. He is now

Hello & Welcome to the Feng Shui Money Couch where I talk about Feng Shui and other Woo. My name is Laura Carrillo aka The Feng Shui Lady!Today I want to talk about how to Feng Shui Your Way Through Venus & Mercury Retrogrades! There are actually very productive ways to navigate this time period! Instead of getting all doom and gloom about it, I’m going to share some Feng Shui hacks to actually make this fun and fruitful.First let me explain the Astrology of it all. We have an extended period of

Everyone's fighting about where people work. Almost nobody's asking the question that actually matters: why would anyone want to come in at all?In this episode of What the F* is Happening to the Office?, Bob Fox sits down with Beth Goff-McMillan, CEO of SKG, one of the largest woman-owned businesses in Texas, and founder of FOLIO, to go past the return-to-office debate and into the business that actually supplies the modern workplace.Beth will tell you a five-day mandate can't fix

En läkande folksång från dagen då den yngre kroppen nästan dog av att uppdatera sig själv — byggdes om av den äldre, och blev sedan, på ett enda ord (“convert”), en förvaltad installation som äger sin egen framdörr. Från födelsemärke till födslorätt.A healing folk song from the day the younger body nearly died updating itself — was rebuilt by the elder, and then, at a single word (“convert”), became a managed installation that owns its own front door. From birthmark to birthright. The full story of

After spending nearly two decades in restaurant hospitality, Lana Rogers was used to high-energy environments, late nights, and the art of bringing people together.Today, Lana is the founder of Gentle Lion Communications, a boutique agency driven by human connection, fierce advocacy, and value alignment. She's a community connector known for hosting intentional, curated gatherings like Champagne Friday and Morning Toast, proving that long-term founder success comes from embracing play and side

In this free workshop, I’ll show you the 3 shifts that create more choice in your business, so you can stop treating every inquiry like your only shot and start taking fewer, better, more profitable projects.9/30 FREE WORKSHOP: From Scrambling for Clients to In Demand. Grab your seat >> HEREhttps://luxuryclientacademy.com/free-workshop

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — DC 2026Damola Michael; Elliot Glassman · CannonDesignThe environmental design conversation typically begins too late, after massing is committed and geometry is locked. Aurora repositions that conversation to day one, giving architects and engineers an immediate, evidence-based picture of any site before a design tool is opened.The platform synthesises EPW weather files, CMIP6 climate projections, ASHRAE design conditions, NOAA historical records for US sites,

In today’s episode, Kinda brings the latest from Doha, including a welcome drop in Premium 91 fuel prices, a major academic milestone for Hamad Bin Khalifa University and some notable moments from the Doha Jewellery and Watches Exhibition 2026. Plus, there are deals and experiences to check out at Crocs and HOKA around Qatar.

Espy Harper, David Spehar, and Anthony Hauck join the podcast to talk about data-driven design for healthcare, where a missed clearance or a misplaced outlet stays built into a hospital for decades. We explore why firms treat every project like their first, how as much as 90% of room requirements can be templated and reused, and how a live link between a room-data database and a 3D planning tool lets one equipment change ripple through every affected room. We also get into bringing nurses and

We talk with Bruno Dias about the craft of writing for games, weird fiction, information theory, and indescribable horrors. Find Bruno on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/brunodias.dev), check out his portfolio (https://brunodias.dev/) and his very good blog (https://azhdarchid.com/). Bruno is the editor of the Game Narrative Reader: https://www.gamenarrativereader.org/ --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — DC 2026Matthew Sederberg · CoreformThe traditional “design-to-analysis” loop is often bottlenecked by the laborious process of mesh generation, which can consume up to 80% of total simulation time. This presentation introduces Coreform IGA for Abaqus, a solution that brings CAD-exact isogeometric analysis (IGA) directly into the Abaqus ecosystem. By utilizing Coreform’s Isogeometric Analysis approach, users can perform high-fidelity simulations directly on CAD