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State Your Assumptions
Positive change. How do organizations achieve it? Part 1 – A mechanism for coordination “Top-down” and “bottom-up” are familiar concepts for discussing where change originates within an organization. They’re based within some level of organizational hierarchy, with a simplified view being that there are two levels of power: workers and managers. The power they each…
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Getting the Project: The Interview
As a landscape architecture firm in a remote market (Alaska), we tend to be on multiple teams pursuing the same projects when we are a subconsultant on architectural project pursuits. We share this tendency the most with structural, and somewhat with electrical and mechanical. For most proposals this is a fairly clear and straight-forward process in that we provide…
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Coaching, Mentoring and Metaphor
It is essential that we find the ways to achieve mutual understanding with those around us. There are short-cuts to a more full understanding, but every shortcut comes with accompanying risks. We minimize risks with doing our research, and with establishing a framework for dialogue and iterative refinement. In short, we need to learn how…
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How to Educate the Perfect Design Student
ArchDaily had posted another question: What do you wish you had learned in Design School? [And since I had first drafted this, they posted their article based on the comments they received: What Should Architecture Schools Teach Us? ArchDaily Readers Respond] Accredited design programs really are in a tough spot when it comes to preparing professionals. They…