Proving Ground

Why are good designers, talented technology experts, and architects leaving practice? Why won’t they stay?

Tricky construction budgets, large project teams, and unique designs needing extensive coordination are all problems increasingly being handled wit...

Strategies are always created with the best of intentions for improving business, the effort involved in executing the strategy – especially ones i...

'I believe in the potential for new technology to positively impact the quality of the built environment with immense speed and great efficiency,'...

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Professional bias can take the form of change-resistant thinking that can keep transformational or innovative ambitions at bay. Tech consultant Nat...

All too often, the narrative of what it takes to be ‘data-driven’ focuses on methods for collecting, synthesizing, and visualizing data.

There appears to be very little industry consensus as to what a ‘computational design’ position actually means in a business setting.

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In creating a roadmap for computation, Proving Ground's Nathan Miller likes to consider investing in the right people, incorporating a range of ski...

A Python scripting lesson at the TexFab Dynamo workshop. Photo: Proving Ground
Even if learning to code does not personally interest you, the growing demand for having these capabilities in an architectural business cannot be...