Think of the conditions in the world today: aging infrastructure and an urgent need for housing across the globe; a warming planet and exponential natural disasters that leave communities to pick up the pieces; a construction industry that, according to a 2017 McKinsey Global Institute report, has evolved at a glacial pace, despite being one of the largest economic sectors. Rapidly changing technology. Terrorism. And, overall, a globalizing economy. Because of their size and reach, extra-large architecture firms—for the sake of this investigation, let’s say those with 1,000 employees or more—are perhaps best equipped to tackle these daunting challenges. As Lance K. Josal, CEO of CallisonRTKL, wrote for a Design Intelligence blog post in 2017, “Who better to deal with these topics than a professional trained in life-safety, resiliency, and design on a global scale?”
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