This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more.
This Website Uses Cookies
By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy. Learn More
This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more.
Architectural Record
search
cart
facebook twitter linkedin youtube
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
  • Sign Out
  • My Account
Architectural Record
  • NEWS
    • Latest News
    • Coronavirus Coverage
    • Technology
    • Interviews
    • Commentary
    • Reviews
    • Editorials
  • PROJECTS
    • Building Types
    • Adaptive Reuse
    • Museums & Arts Centers
    • Colleges & Universities
    • Interior Design
    • Lighting
    • Kitchen & Bath
  • HOUSES
    • Record Houses
    • House of the Month
    • Featured Houses
  • PRODUCTS
    • Material World Newsletter
    • Categories
    • Products of the Year
    • Sponsored Products
  • EXCLUSIVES
    • Videos
    • Podcasts
      • Sponsored Podcasts
      • Design:ED Podcast
    • Historic Archive
    • Design Vanguard
    • Record Interiors
    • Top 300 Firms
    • Products of the Year
    • Best Architecture Schools
  • SUBMIT WORK
    • Record Interiors 2022
    • Guess the Architect
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Editorial Calendar
  • CONTINUING ED
    • Editorial Continuing Ed
    • CE Center
    • CE Topic Academies
  • EVENTS
    • Record on the Road
    • Innovation Conference
    • Women In Architecture
    • Webinars
    • Ad Excellence Awards
    • Submit an Event
  • MORE
    • CONTACT
      • Masthead
      • Customer Service
      • Subscribe
      • Custom Content Marketing
    • Advertise
    • Newsletters
    • Store
    • Custom Content Marketing
    • Research
    • Sponsor Insights
    • Sponsored eBooks
  • MAGAZINE
    • Digital Edition
    • Historic Archive
    • Subscribe
    • Customer Service
    • My Account
    • Current Issue
Home » Authors » Andrew Pressman

Articles by Andrew Pressman

It's a very good time to develop your firm's collaboration skills

Andrew Pressman
April 16, 2009
No Comments
Building trust, goodwill, and respect among all the multidisciplinary players is also essential to integrated project delivery. How do you do that? “Transparency, openness, and a willingness to share information,” states Jim Summers, an associate in the Boston office of Burt Hill, “will enable the change of focus from individual to project.” Their team members will spend a significant amount of time together to understand a clear scope of responsibilities, design objectives, degree of risk, and bottom line; this “fleshing out” is part of the discovery process resulting in a contract that supports a unique work flow. Summers is amazed
Read More

It's a very good time to develop your firm's collaboration skills

Andrew Pressman
April 16, 2009
No Comments

Intensification of collaborative practices within the office may result in novel outcomes that can significantly enhance cost-effectiveness as well as project quality. 


Read More

Creating a firm culture that supports innovative design

Andrew Pressman
February 15, 2008
No Comments
Look outside for insight Applying cross-disciplinary knowledge to help creatively solve architectural problems—and broaden perspectives—is a time-honored strategy. The Seattle firm Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects employs a visiting-lecturer series which, according to its Web site, is “inspired by the power of cross-fertilization—where individuals who excel in disciplines other than architecture come and share with us what they do.” They have had presentations by artists, craftspeople, environmentalists, and even an exotic dancer. Reorganizing staff can fuel new approaches to engaging everyday problems. Roger Goldstein, FAIA, a principal at Goody Clancy in Boston, explains that intentionally mixing teams from one project
Read More

Creating a firm culture that supports innovative design

Andrew Pressman
February 15, 2008
No Comments
Cultivating an environment in which there is a swift and easy exchange of ideas is an important part of the design process in many firms, both large and small. What may not be so obvious are strategies to foster optimal functioning and creative thinking in such an environment. Photo courtesy IDEO The culture of the design firm IDEO does not discourage bad ideas, because they can trigger solutions. One of its credos is, “Fail often to succeed sooner.” Early in their indoctrination and training, architecture students learn about studio culture. It has been a hot topic for the American Institute
Read More

Good leadership helps practice, the profession, and society

Andrew Pressman
September 16, 2007
No Comments
Ongoing and frequent dialogue not only fosters collegiality and a collaborative spirit but can also stimulate innovation. Jim Oswald, a senior associate and senior business strategist within Gensler Consulting, shares Leers’s perspective with regard to engaging staff to ensure their commitment to advancing the firm’s goals: “Informal discussions held in staff meetings, individual coaching sessions, and conversations around the water cooler about the firm’s strategic purpose and direction all help to strengthen staff’s grasp of the ‘why we do what we do’ and proactively engage them in ‘living’ the firm’s vision and goals through their work.” Photography: © Getty Images
Read More

Good leadership helps practice, the profession, and society

Andrew Pressman
September 16, 2007
No Comments
“We’re talking about somebody’s life here. We can’t decide it in five minutes … We nine can’t understand how you three are still so sure. Maybe you can tell us.” —Henry Fonda as a juror in 12 Angry Men Photography: © Getty Images Henry Fonda plays an architect in the film 12 Angry Men, the story of a jury deciding the fate of a man on trial for murder. Initially, his is the sole vote against a conviction. With just two brief quotes from this 1957 film classic, Henry Fonda’s character—an architect—begins to emerge as the leader of a group
Read More
practice in perspective 1

Integrated practice in perspective: A new model for the architectural profession

Andrew Pressman
May 16, 2007
No Comments
The inefficiencies inherent in the process of design and construction are necessitating a shift to greater multidisciplinary collaboration and information sharing among project team members This is an exciting time to practice architecture. Architects and engineers seem to be able to design and construct almost anything they can imagine, and the data they use enables these buildings to be well managed by their owners. Architects, consultants, and owners are also working together more closely than ever. Integrated practice (IP) is the term that is being assigned to this collaborative process. IP is a meaningful response to the ongoing marketplace mandate
Read More
practice in perspective 3

Integrated practice in perspective: A new model for the architectural profession, part 3

Andrew Pressman
May 16, 2007
No Comments
The inefficiencies inherent in the process of design and construction are necessitating a shift to greater multidisciplinary collaboration and information sharing among project team members Implications for architectural education Many academic programs still produce students who expect they will spend their careers working as heroic, solitary designers. But integrated practice is sure to stimulate a rethinking of that notion. Pedagogy must focus on teaching not only how to design and detail, but also how to engage with and lead others, and how to collaborate with the professionals they are likely to work with later. Renee Cheng, AIA, associate professor and
Read More

Integrated practice in perspective: A new model for the architectural profession, part 4

Andrew Pressman
May 16, 2007
No Comments
The inefficiencies inherent in the process of design and construction are necessitating a shift to greater multidisciplinary collaboration and information sharing among project team members Will using integrated practice challenge intellectual property norms? One question on many minds is whether the advent of integrated practice, with building information modeling as a primary tool for facilitating it, will change customs regarding copyright of information and intellectual property. In other words, who owns the data? According to Volker Mueller, Assoc. AIA, design technology manager at NBBJ, “Authorship of BIM is analogous to authorship of other construction documents. Every discipline authors their scope
Read More
practice in perspective 2

Integrated practice in perspective: A new model for the architectural profession, part 2

Andrew Pressman
May 16, 2007
No Comments
The inefficiencies inherent in the process of design and construction are necessitating a shift to greater multidisciplinary collaboration and information sharing among project team members Contract documents Integrated practice will drive changes to contracts in order to facilitate working in teams, sharing information, and fairly allocating liability risk, compensation, and responsibility. Changes will most likely occur incrementally with “the continued growth of design-build, tweaked conventional contracts, and increased experimentation with transformational methods like ‘project alliancing,’ ” according to Cambridge, Massachusetts, attorney Chris Noble, of Noble & Wickersham. In this transition period, Noble believes that “there will be increased use of
Read More
Previous 1 2 Next
Subscription Center
  • Join Record Premium
  • My Account
  • Create Account
  • eNewsletter Subscriptions
  • Subscription Customer Service
  • Connect with AR

More Videos

Sponsored Content

Sponsored Content is a special paid section where industry companies provide high quality, objective, non-commercial content around topics of interest to the Architectural Record audience. All Sponsored Content is supplied by the advertising company. Interested in participating in our Sponsored Content section? Contact your local rep.

close
  • ASI Bathroom Design.
    Sponsored byASI Group

    Bathroom & Building Design – Creating New Design Standards for “Beyond Tomorrow”

  • Building with Reef Vapor Retarder.
    Sponsored byReef Industries

    Moisture in Modern Buildings

  • Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
    Sponsored byGRAPHISOFT

    The Value of Open BIM in the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Renovation

DESIGN:ED Podcast
Listen to Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED Podcast

Events

May 19, 2022

The Collision of AGILE and MESSY

NOW ON DEMAND

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 IACET CEU
May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations

This presentation will explore fresh, new innovative concepts for appropriate systematic solutions, as well as guidelines and recommendations for the housing of these resources.

May 26, 2022

ADA-Friendly Modular Construction

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 IACET CEU
May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations

This webinar will look at several modular construction projects that combine innovative design strategies with the practical case for ADA compliance and accessibility, incorporating quality and safety standards as well as schedule efficiencies and sustainability.

View All Submit An Event

Popular Stories

Google-8.jpg

New Google Campus by BIG and Heatherwick Studio Opens for Business

Architects at work

The Imperative of Ending Coerced Student Labor

ASI Bathroom Design.

Bathroom & Building Design – Creating New Design Standards for “Beyond Tomorrow”

9th Avenue Parkade.

Snapshot: An Adaptable, Aluminum-Clad Garage on Calgary's 9th Avenue

Tanzania-Beekeepers-Asali-and-Nyuki-Sanctuary.jpg

DESIGN:ED Podcast: Mark Gardner

Interiors Symposium - Free Webinar - June 1, 2022 - 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM EDT

The latest news and information

#1 Source for Architectural Design, News and Products

JOIN NOW
  • Contact
    • Survey And Sample
    • Editorial Calendar
    • Industry Jobs
  • Call for Entries
  • Subscribe
    • Subscribe
    • Renew
    • Create Account
    • Change Address
    • Pay My Bill
    • Free eNewsletters
    • Customer Care
  • Advertise
    • Architectural Record
    • Advertising Awards
  • Privacy
    • PRIVACY POLICY
    • TERMS & CONDITIONS
    • DO NOT SELL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION
    • PRIVACY REQUEST
    • ACCESSIBILITY

Copyright ©2022. All Rights Reserved BNP Media.

Design, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing