In the middle of last month, a group of 60 architects and other allied professionals from across the country gathered near Washington, D.C. to reimagine the shape of design practice.
The aim of the two-day symposium, held in Arlington, Virginia, and dubbed the “Practice Innovation Lab,” was to develop new ideas for raising architects’ value, said Evelyn Lee, a corporate managing director at commercial real-estate consultant, Savills Studley and the chair of the Young Architects Forum (YAF). The group, which organized the lab, is part of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and is open to architects licensed 10 years or fewer. “If all architects do is offer our traditional services, the profession will become extinct,” she said.
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