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2008 DesignIntelligence Technology Survey
The 2008 Technology Issue is chock-full of timely data and expert insight…
Articles
- 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.
- 10/15/04 Architecture of Change: Design Adjusts to the Age of Flux The Architecture of Change is a paradigm shift that embraces the transience in today’s culture and life in an age that worships change.
- 07/12/04 Environmental Graphic Design Wields Growing Influence, Fees Environmental graphics may be a comparatively young design field, but its fees and prominence are growing.
- 06/15/04 Dimensional Model Sharing Eliminates Risk,Duplication By sharing digital models with consultants and subcontractors, the profession can go far beyond improving the way drawings are produced to change the very way buildings are built.
- 05/15/04 The Truth Hurts There are any number of ways to communicate, but according to a recent Cornell University study, we’re most likely to lie over the phone.
- 05/15/04 How Building Products Can Reach, Markets Faster, More Profitably Achieving [these] goals above will also allow building product manufacturers to more effectively serve their customers, architects and general contractors.
- 04/15/04 Sports Engineering Requires Speed, Skill, Endurance Few building structures rival the complexity of Minute Maid Park. Walter P. Moore says retractability made the analysis of the curving roof at least six times more complicated than a fixed roof of the same configuration.
- 02/15/04 Spam in Your Mailbox Now Outnumbers the Real Thing What used to be an annoyance has now developed into a criminal endeavor, with hackers on the Spammers’ payroll.
- 02/15/04 Life-cycle planning solves distance, information problems For clients with large, complex projects and properties spread over several sites, the need for comprehensive planning and architectural design services goes well beyond the ribbon-cutting.
- 11/15/03 Have Usefulness and Delight Been Replaced by Quirky and Hip? …the primary skill obtained in architectural education is a critical eye, one that questions itself as well as the world around it. We become so accustomed to questioning architecture that we find it difficult to produce architecture.
