A TESTAMONIAL FROM THE FRONT LINE Recent words from one of our clients in an email from the architect principal of the firm to his bookkeeper and copied to me: "Hi Joanna, Let’s try to send Charles checks as soon as possible. We are very happy with his services and want to be one of his best clients which means we need to pay quickly." Steven Kratchman 23 Warren Street, Store 9 New York, NY 10007 Tel: 212-944-9204 ext 106 www.KratchmanArchitect.com
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HOW SOON WILL ROBOTS MEET & BEAT HUMAN ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS? The following is a transcript of a recent online conversation I had with Chatgpt. I think many architects and engineers might find this to be provocative reading: You said: You have provided me with numerous references concerning artificial intelligence applied to the preparation of design and construction documents for architects and engineers. However, in a lengthy telephone conversation with one of the computer engineers at Autodesk, the leading publisher of architectural and engineering software for architects, he described to me what is known as Generative Design, a subset of Revit, which is Autodesk's prmary application for producing architectural and engineering design and construction documents. As it turns out Generative Design, while it has the ability to produce intelligent preliminary design solutions, still lacks the ability to produce documents at a level of complexity applicable for building const...
MANY U.S. ARCHITECT OFFICES - GONE IN FIVE YEARS? Today, most architects work in office buildings. However, many office buildings are closing down or being repurposed. Office building occupancies are dropping significantly. This is starting to look like an irreversible trend. Many office building owners are losing money, defaulting on mortgages for those office buildings, and some owners are going bankrupt. The costs of operations of office buildings and the costs to enterprises operating in office buildings are increasing to possibly unsustainable levels when compared to the increasingly constrained levels of available income. Constrained income levels are being fed by gruesome global economics (aka internationally licensed architects of record for US projects), artificial intelligence, and soon to be by quantum computing and bio-tech advances such as Neurolink brain implants...