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07/26/05 Deeper Strategic Thinking In the 10th anniversary issue of DesignIntelligence, I wrote an article titled “Why the Future Won’t Need Today’s Architects” that some of you thought was overly sensationalist. My point was simply that changing demographics, technology breakthroughs, and scientific discoveries will bring a new and challenging context for architects, designers, engineers, and their clients. The bottom line was that each leader and design organization must create a blueprint that goes beyond survival toward a new agile relevancy. James P. Cramer
05/26/05 Why the Future Won’t Need Today’s Architects What’s next for successful architecture, engineering, and design practices? This is the question we will explore more deeply in the upcoming months in DesignIntelligence. We believe that firms will not only be faster and smarter but also wiser and more independent. James P. Cramer
05/26/05 DFC Thought Leaders Consider Two Decades of Design When any decade is compressed, examined and filtered, it seems tumultuous. But the stretch from 1995 to now has without question been a doozy for design and the world at large.
04/27/05 The One Percent Solution for Pro Bono If all of the United States’ 240,000 architects gave 20 hours a year to pro bono work, the result would effectively be a 2,500-member firm, working full-time for clients who could not normally afford professional design.
10/15/04 Delivering on Great Design: Charting Your Success Truly creative people do things that, by definition, have not been done before. At the same time, each and every job is bounded by the parameters of budget and schedule, which provide the “predictive value” that clients demand. Scott Simpson, FAIA
07/12/04 Don’t blow site approval; when time counts, get a professional In a time where nearly every project has an “aggressive” schedule, an informal/informational meeting with the city or town’s planning department is a good idea.
05/15/04 Informed Cooperation Beats Friction, Outsourcing, Lawsuits Let there be no doubt, [the deep divide between architects and interior designers] exists—and the reasons are deeply rooted and sustained by our universities, professional societies and practitioners. Ed Friedrichs
04/15/04 Ascendancy vs. Gravitational Pull This issue of DesignIntelligence is primarily about the facts and trends in baseball park design. But between the lines here is a story about professional ascendancy. James P. Cramer
04/15/04 The New Wave in Major, Minor League Sport Design Baseball still holds the title of America’s pastime. In this issue, we present the architectural stats book: all the majors and AAA parks, who built them and when; their cost and capacity.
03/15/04 Design Integration is Key Strategy is a strange word, often overused and misused. Its common use would suggest that the term strategy is unambiguous and its meaning strong and clear. But it is not. James P. Cramer

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