

TRXL
Evan Troxel
Join architect Evan Troxel as he explores important topics surrounding the co-evolution of technology and architecture. Guests from the architectural community and beyond join in long-form conversations about the influence digital transformation is having on the profession with long digressions on leadership, change management, knowledge transfer, where all this may lead to in the future of the building industry, and more.
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Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 12min
072: ‘One Model to Rule Them All’, with Theodoros Galanos
Special guest Theodoros Galanos of ArchiText joins the podcast to talk about artificial intelligence (AI) as it relates to architectural design using written language. More specifically, we talk about how his ArchiText tool is beginning by generating residential floor plan layouts now and where it may go in the future. We also talk about this in the context of democratizing design, how he trained the language model, what biases and gaps potentially exist in the data used for the training, the vision of end-to-end design workflows, what this could mean for the future of the profession, how he got started down this path, the notion of AI as oracles, deep learning models, and more.Please rate ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and review TRXL podcast on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen) and don't forget to subscribe and share this episode if you enjoyed it!LinksTheodoros on TwitterTheodoros on LinkedInArchiText websiteArchiText on TwitterEleuther AICLIPGPT-3GrasshopperCheck out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and PeopleverseMy YouTube channelConnect with EvanTwitterLinkedInInstagramYouTubeEmailSponsorsArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.Shape the Future of Architecture. You have the power to influence future updates to how architects are educated, trained, and licensed. Visit ncarb.org/AOP to take NCARB’s profession-wide Analysis of Practice survey and ensure your voice is heard.Content is more than Revit families. If it's digital, AVAIL can handle it. Learn more today at https://getavail.com and future-proof your firm's technology investment.

Feb 22, 2022 • 1h 10min
071: ‘Trust But Verify’, with Roderick Bates
Special guest Roderick Bates of Enscape joins the podcast to talk about his interesting path to architecture and technology through sustainability, the importance of lateral thinking, why architects should about the ethical outcomes of the projects they work on, the general challenge of communication that architects face, and how Roderick is applying his scientific and research approach to the field of visualization and more specifically real time rendering at Enscape.LinksRoderick on LinkedInEnscape websiteEnscape on LinkedInKieranTimberlake websiteBillie FairclothTally Life Cycle Assessment AppCheck out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and PeopleverseMy YouTube channelConnect with EvanTwitterLinkedInInstagramYouTubeEmailSponsorArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.

Feb 15, 2022 • 1h 7min
070 : ‘Finding Better Analogies’, with Jose Cruz, Jr
Special guest Jose Cruz, Jr of Integrated Projects joins the podcast to talk about the value he sees in the service he’s created for digitizing “background buildings” and how his team is creating this resource using reality capture technologies, how digital twins of existing building stock has the potential to add value and jumpstart future projects that owners hire design teams and architects for, his Layer Zero analogy, and more.LinksJosé on LinkedInJosé on TwitterIntegrated Projects websiteIntegrated Projects on LinkedInArchitects Are the Latest White-Collar Workers to Confront Bosses (New York Times)Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and PeopleverseMy YouTube channelConnect with EvanTwitterLinkedInInstagramYouTubeEmailSponsorEnscape is a real-time rendering and VR tool for the AEC market. It empowers design workflows by plugging into building modeling software and turning the models into immersive 3D experiences. Visit enscape3d.com/trxl to sign up for a free 14-day trial.ArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.

Feb 8, 2022 • 1h 9min
069: ‘Always Step Up to the Plate’, with Christian Giordano
Special guest Christian Giordano of Mancini Duffy joins the podcast to talk about how he came to the 100-year-old firm with a vision to modernize Mancini Duffy, how he ultimately changed the firm’s approach to emphasize the use of technology to transform the way designers across disciplines work, why he launched a research & development incubator—dubbed the Design Lab—to bring together designers, technologists, and clients to leverage various technologies to support their practice and to break barriers he saw that were limiting their design capabilities, and more.LinksChristian on LinkedInMancini Duffy websiteChristian’s The Anti-Architect Podcast (Apple Podcasts link)Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and PeopleverseMy YouTube channelConnect with EvanTwitterLinkedInInstagramYouTubeEmailSponsorEnscape is a real-time rendering and VR tool for the AEC market. It empowers design workflows by plugging into building modeling software and turning the models into immersive 3D experiences. Visit enscape3d.com/trxl to sign up for a free 14-day trial.ArchIT offers Complete IT Solutions for Architecture, Design, and Engineering firms. Tired of dealing with generic IT providers? Visit www.getarchit.com and schedule your free consultation. Technology is your competitive advantage.

Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 14min
068: ‘A Wealth of Abandoned Ideas’, with Shane Burger
Special guest Shane Burger of Woods Bagot joins the podcast to talk about how he stays in contact with the global team at Woods Boagot, how he responds to the wide-ranging needs of the technology users in their international architecture firm, how cross pollination happens between teams and offices, how Shane is a huge fan of note-taking, what tools are his favorite and why, and so much more.LinksShane’s websiteShane on TwitterShane on LinkedInWoods Bagot websiteWoods Bagot on TwitterWoods Bagot on LinkedInWoods Bagot on InstagramThe State of Burnout in Architecture (2021) (Monograph's blog)Shane’s talk with Monograph: How To Increase the Impact of Digital Culture (YouTube)Roam Research websiteGordon Brander (Substack)The Craftsman by Richard Sennett (Amazon)The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle (Amazon)Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull (Amazon)Gemba WalkCheck out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and PeopleverseMy YouTube channelConnect with EvanTwitterLinkedInInstagramYouTubeEmailSponsorEnscape is a real-time rendering and VR tool for the AEC market. It empowers design workflows by plugging into building modeling software and turning the models into immersive 3D experiences. Visit enscape3d.com/trxl to sign up for a free 14-day trial.

Jan 25, 2022 • 1h 4min
067: ‘Ignoring the Warning Signs’, with Samuel Schneider
Special guest Samuel Schneider of Homestead joins the podcast to talk about his experience at MIT’s graduate School of Architecture and City Planning and where his interests lie, how he fared in traditional practice, how Homestead began in the ADU space and has changed recently because of SB9, what architects need to understand about people and clients & how they think about spending money, how technology plays a role in Homestead’s offerings, how they offer space as a product, and much more.LinksSam on LinkedInHomestead on LinkedInHomestead’s websiteCheck out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and PeopleverseMy YouTube channelConnect with EvanTwitterLinkedInInstagramYouTubeEmailSponsorEnscape is a real-time rendering and VR tool for the AEC market. It empowers design workflows by plugging into building modeling software and turning the models into immersive 3D experiences. Visit enscape3d.com/trxl to sign up for a free 14-day trial.

Dec 14, 2021 • 52min
066: ‘Pushing Against A Cotton Ball’, with Atif Qadir
Special guest Atif Qadir of REDIST joins the podcast to talk about his mission to aggregate and redistribute financial and near-monetary incentives in the real estate development space, the lack of coordination between governmental agencies' data, how he built a team and leverages their superpowers, how his career led to REDIST coming from an architectural background, and more.LinksAtif on LinkedInREDIST websiteREDIST on LinkedInAmerican Building PodcastOK Computer Lecture Series: Autonomous Vehicles (YouTube)Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and PeopleverseMy YouTube channelConnect with EvanTwitterLinkedInInstagramYouTubeEmailSponsorEnscape is a real-time rendering and VR tool for the AEC market. It empowers design workflows by plugging into building modeling software and turning the models into immersive 3D experiences. Visit enscape3d.com/trxl to sign up for a free 14-day trial.

Dec 7, 2021 • 1h 7min
065: ‘Designing the Designer‘, with Andreea Cojocaru
Special guest Andreea Cojocaru of NUMENA joins the podcast to talk about her company of coding architects and their work with their varied client types, synthetic immersive reality's affect on their practice over time, the 'real you' and the 'phenomenal you' when it comes to experience, the overuse of the word "experience" in mixed reality, how neuroscience and philosophy provide a framing for the profound ramifications of design and spatial experiences, whether architects and the profession will have relevance in the future, how tools have advanced down the abstraction ladder, VR's ability to give a project stakeholder/owner/client agency—and perhaps more importantly—authoring ability, and more.LinksAndreea's websiteAndreea on LinkedInAndreea on TwitterNUMENA websiteNUMENA on LinkedInNUMENA on TwitterPeter Eisenmann (Wikipedia)Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and PeopleverseMy YouTube channelConnect with EvanTwitterLinkedInInstagramYouTubeEmailSponsorEnscape is a real-time rendering and VR tool for the AEC market. It empowers design workflows by plugging into building modeling software and turning the models into immersive 3D experiences. Visit enscape3d.com/trxl to sign up for a free 14-day trial.

Nov 30, 2021 • 1h 4min
064: ‘You Need to Let Go‘, with Jason Addy
Special guest Jason Addy of Neoscape joins the podcast to talk about how architects communicate and how clients experience architectural design before projects are built from a value-added partner's perspective. We also talk about his vast experience working in the ArchViz profession, what it's like working with his team on a project, what architects need to do to enhance the process, how the industry has evolved over the last 2 decades, what their R+D department is working on, and more.LinksJason on LinkedInNeoscape websiteRadlabNeoscape on LinkedInNeoscape on InstagramIglooFirst Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy (YouTube)Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and PeopleverseMy YouTube channelConnect with EvanTwitterLinkedInInstagramYouTubeEmailSponsorEnscape is a real-time rendering and VR tool for the AEC market. It empowers design workflows by plugging into building modeling software and turning the models into immersive 3D experiences. Visit enscape3d.com/trxl to sign up for a free 14-day trial.

Nov 23, 2021 • 60min
063: ‘The Thicc Middle‘, with Daniel Davis
Special guest Daniel Davis of Hassell joins the podcast to talk about his latest blog post about CAD's boring future and why it's exciting, the long tail distribution of architectural project typologies as a framework for his thesis, where he thinks the real opportunities lie for CAD software, how it relates to practice and employee expertise, horizontal vs vertical software applications, architechie startups and their approach to this problem, web vs desktop apps, and much more.LinksDaniel Davis' websiteCAD’s Boring Future and Why it’s ExcitingTRXL 035: ‘There‘s Not Much More to Extract’, with Daniel DavisDaniel on TwitterDaniel on LinkedInThe Future of the Professions by Richard and Daniel Susskind (Amazon | Bookshop)SaltmineHayworth's codesignerHyparTestfitCheck out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and PeopleverseMy YouTube channelConnect with EvanTwitterLinkedInInstagramYouTubeEmailSponsorEnscape is a real-time rendering and VR tool for the AEC market. It empowers design workflows by plugging into building modeling software and turning the models into immersive 3D experiences. Visit enscape3d.com/trxl to sign up for a free 14-day trial.