Today’s uncanny AI renderings are just the tip of theiceberg. Architects are banding together to clean up their digital houses, master data literacy, collectively bargain for their needs with software monopolies, and ultimately, prevent technology rendering them irrelevant. Enter the Innovation Design Consortium, an elite corps of leaders and technologists of America’s 40 largest architecturefirms, who have banded together to battle the bots. Unfrozen interviews its Chair, Peter Devereaux, Founding Principal of HED.Among many other things, he says, “We have to get out of the business of selling our time by the hour for the production of two-dimensional construction documents.”
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Intro/Outro: “I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane
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Discussed:
The Road to IDC: Writing guidelines for the use ofgenerative AI via the AIA Large Firm Roundtable (LFRT)
See also: “The Future of Generative AI in Architecture, Design and Engineering,” Cornell Tech
Key players:
- Carole Wedge, Shepley Bulfinch
- Bob Packard, ZGF
- Brad Lukanic, Cannon Design
Other leading lights in the AI 4 AEC community:
Phillip Bernstein, Yale
Chris Minerva, Thornton Tomasetti
Greg Schluesner, Executive Committee Secretary, IDC Director of Design Technology, HOK
Volker Buscher, Chief Data Officer, Data Leaders Former Chief Data Officer, Arup
- IP Law, terms and conditions, “give to get”
Is this the “anti-Autodesk”?
What does “after Autodesk” look like?
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